Fashion plate, from La Mode Illustreé

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This hand-coloured fashion plate is from La Mode Illustreé, a fashion magazine published in Paris. Dating from 1882, the plate illustrates two day dresses. It is signed, 'Huard' and 'I. Desgrange'.

Both women are wearing straw hats trimmed with flowers. Their dresses reflect the current popular fashion for tied-back skirts, 'cuirasse' bodices, high necklines, pleated trimmings and demi-trains.

By 1874 the 'cuirasse' bodice had become an important element in fashion. It was a corset-shaped bodice with a design somewhat similar to that of a man's jacket.

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• Online ID: 000-100-087-480-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 67.65
• Date: 1861 -1904
  1882
  
• Material: Plate, fashion
  
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• What: Plate, fashion
  
• Subject: Fashion plates (NMAS Classification)
  
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• Description: One of 117 fashion plates from La Mode Illustree, showing women's and children's wear, dated 1861 - 1904
  
• References:
  • Lady of Fashion 1800/1935, catalogue prepared for Schofield Collection, National Gallery of Victoria 
  • Langley Moore, Doris. Fashion through Fashion Plates 1771-1970. London: Ward Lock Ltd, 1971, p 112. 
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