Costume Plates and Fashion Plates

Costume Plates and Fashion Plates.

The difference between the two are the fact a costume plate represents fashions of the past where as fashion plates represent fashions of now and/or or the upcoming future.

Both type of plates reached their peak in the 19^th century with the first fashion plates started in the English magazine “The Lady's Magazine” in 1770

Cabinet des Modes 1785-89 and Journal de la Mode et du Goût 1790-93 also contained fashion plates. A few influential fashion magazines competing against eachother were La Belle Assemblée of 1806, The Lady's Monthly Museum 1798 and

Le Beau Monde1806. La Belle Assemblee ran for 63years owned by John Bell, the full name was Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine Addressed Particularly to the Ladies

In 1778 Jacques Esnauts and Michel Rapilly of Paris joined forces and began to issue their La Gallerie des Modes publication of coloured fashion plates. They produced 342 figure plates and 72 hat plates.

Nicolaus Wilhelm von Heideloff created the Gallery of Fashion containing accurate copies of styles worn by ladies of rank and fashion.

The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics was created by Ackermann. It included pictures containing design elements of furniture and artwork with special attention to classical styles. It was significant because it may have caught the interest of refined ladies in their home making.

Le Follet Courier des Salons

Le Follet Courier des Salons first appeared in 1829

Le Follet is equivalent to Vogue

La Mode was founded in 1829 by Henri de Girardin

La Bon Ton appeared in 1834

Godey’s Lady’s Book

Ladies Cabinet, The Ladies' Gazette of Fashions and the Lady's Magazine could not compete with their French counterparts because they could not match the artistry of the French.

The most famous American magazine of the 19^th century was Godey's Ladies' Handbook published from July 1830 without break until 1898.

Included inside the magazine were fashion plates, fashion articles, stories, poems, how to make various crochet, tatting, lace making, knitting, embroidery and other craft articles, recipes and house keeping hints and tips.

The Queen magazine

The Queen magazine that began in 1861 was the longest running English magazine. The full title was The Queen, the Ladies' Newspaper. It ran until 1968 then Harpers Bazaar took it over. It was called Harpers & Queen. The ‘Queen’ was dropped in March 2006.

It is now called Harper's BAZAAR, to make itself an iconic international fashion brand, 50,000 London newsstand copies of bazaar were each studded with 200 Swarovski crystals on the updated new title.

More Plates

First issue of Vogue was published in December 17^th 1892

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Butterick published a magazine called The Delineator including Photos, drawings, embroidery and needle work.

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Cosmopolitan was first published in 1886

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I tried making a fahion plate of my own and this is how it went: