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 fashion plates. The plate is from Le Petit Courrier des Dames, a weekly fashion magazine published in Paris. Dated 25 March, 1836, it illustrates a bride's outfit.

By having the figures both standing and seated, the outfit can be appreciated from the front and back. The double triangular look, fashionable at the time, is created by having large puffed sleeves and full skirts joined in the middle by a tightly-laced waist.

It was only during the neoclassical period (around 1755-1805) that the colour white became customary for weddings. By the 1830s, it was essential and was a visual declaration of the bride's purity.

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• Online ID: 000-100-104-869-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 154.23
• Date: 1836
  
• Material: Paper. Inscription: Costume de Mariee
  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 'costume de mariee', from Petit Courrier des Dames, 25 March 1836
  
• References:
  • Langley Moore, Doris. Fashion through Fashion Plates 1771-1970. London: Ward Lock Ltd, 1971, p 72. 
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