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 1879, the plate illustrates two day dresses. It is signed, 'Bonnard' and 'Anaïs Toudouze'.

The 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: 000-100-087-468-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 67.53
• Date: 1861 -1904
  1879
  
• 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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