Fashion plate, from The Queen

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This hand-coloured fashion plate is from The Queen, a monthly magazine published in London. The plate illustrates examples of day wear and evening wear and is dated 6 August, 1887.

The outfits include the large, but fashionable, bustle. It consisted of a kind of projecting shelf of wadding or wire around which the dress could be built. Shaped rather like a lobster pot it could be pushed aside when the wearer sat down.

From 1885 until 1888 The Queen's fashion plates were made up of a selection of ten or twelve large imported French plates, reduced into one large plate.

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• Online ID: 000-100-087-697-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 87.16
• Date: 1877 - 1894
  1887
  
• Material: Plate, fashion
  
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• What: Plate, fashion
  
• Subject: Fashion plates (NMAS Classification)
  
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• Description: One of thirty-three fashion plates from The Queen, showing women's and children's wear, dated 1877 - 1894
  
• References:
  • Holland, Vyvyan. Hand Coloured Fashion Plates 1770 to 1899. London: B.T. Batsford, 1955, p 104. 
  • Langley Moore, Doris. Fashion through Fashion Plates 1771-1970. London: Ward Lock Ltd, 1971, p 120. 
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