Fashion Plates & Fashion History

When we originally wrote this several years ago, we were more focused on the fashion plate as an accurate means of documenting how garments looked during the late 19th Century. However, as time went on, our opinion has shifted somewhat to the idea that fashions plates depicted what was possible and as such, served as…

FIT Breaks Down the History of Fashion, Decade by Decade

A Brief History of the Fashion Plate – Maryland Center for History and Culture

A Brief History of the Fashion Plate – Maryland Center for History and Culture

Costume Institute Fashion Plates

1864 Fashion History Timeline

Stitching Away…

1856 Fashion History Timeline

80 Godey's Full-Color Fashion Plates eBook by JoAnne Olian - EPUB Book

A Brief History of the Fashion Plate – Maryland Center for History and Culture

12+ Regency Fashion Plates! - The Graphics Fairy