Fashion plate, from Le Petit Courrier des Dames

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This hand-coloured fashion plate is from a scrap album containing a selection of 19th century plates. The plate is from Le Petit Courrier des Dames, a weekly fashion magazine published in Paris. Dated 15 March, 1842, it illustrates two evening dresses with headdresses.

Underneath the dress skirts are 'sous joup crinoline' - underskirts of stiffened horsehair. The headdresses are made of crêpe.

Le Petit Courrier des Dames was in publication from 1822 until around 1865. An English version called, The Ladies' Little Messenger, came out in 1823 but did not last long.

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• Online ID: 000-100-104-877-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 154.31
• Date: 1842
  
• Material: Paper. Inscription: Sous jupe crinoline
  Document / plate, fashion
  
• Dimensions: 14.80" x 10.00"
  
• What: Document / plate, fashion
  
• Subject: Fashion plates
  
• Who: Petit Courrier des Dames
  
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• Description: Fashion plate showing two evening dresses with head dresses and under the skirt a 'sous jupe crinoline', from Petit Courrier des Dames, 15 March 1842
  
• References:
  • Holland, Vyvyan. Hand Coloured Fashion Plates 1770 to 1899. London: B.T. Batsford, 1955, pp 64-7. 
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