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Fashion plate, from La Nouvelle Mode

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published in Paris

Fashion plate, from La Nouvelle Mode
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This fashion plate is from La Nouvelle Mode, a weekly fashion journal published in Paris. Dated 1911, the plate is one in a collection of plates from the journal, compiled in a book entitled 'Book of Fashion Plates from La Nouvelle Mode: Fashions 1908-1911'.

The plate is numbered 11. It illustrates a fancy dress outfit called 'Merchant of pleasure'.

The fancy dress ball and the 'Bal Masqué' originated around the time of the battle of Waterloo in 1815. They remained popular entertainment throughout the 19th and into the 20th century.

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