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 1873, the plate illustrates a day dress for outdoor wear and an evening dress. It is signed, 'Réville' and 'Héloïse Leloir'.

There was a great interest in the backs of dresses at this time and the trend was emphasized by long elaborate trains, similar to the example on the right of the picture. Many fashion plates from this time gave back views and profiles.

Héloïse Leloir was born in 1820 and was the eldest daughter of Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798-1875), a painter and lithographer. Along with her two sisters, Adèle Anaïs and Laure, she was responsible for many of the best fashion plates of the mid-nineteenth century.

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• Online ID: 000-100-087-449-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 67.34
• Date: 1861 -1904
  1873
  
• 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:
  • Holland, Vyvyan. Hand Coloured Fashion Plates 1770 to 1899. London: B.T. Batsford, 1955, p 152. 
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