Fashion plate, from Sylvia's Home Journal

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This hand-coloured fashion plate is from Sylvia's Home Journal, a magazine published in London. The plate illustrates two evening dresses and is headed, 'Supplement to Sylvia's Home Journal November 1889'.

Both women are holding large fans. The plate is signed, '...Sylvain' and 'A. Chaillot'.

Fans remained popular throughout the late Victorian period. They could be concealed in the ample skirts, so there was no need for a handbag. The 1890s saw trends for ostrich-feather fans, black lace fans and hand-painted gauze fans.

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• Online ID: 000-100-087-408-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 60.3
• Date: 1889
  1889
  
• Material: Paper. Inscription: The Newest French Fashions Expressly Modelled For Sylvia's Home Journal ; Printed in Paris ; Supplement to Sylvia's Home Journal November 1889 ; ..... Sylvain ; A. Chaillot
  Document / plate, fashion
  Plate, fashion
  
• Dimensions: 11.60 " x 8.90"
  
• What: Document / plate, fashion
  Plate, fashion
  
• Subject: Fashion plates (NMAS Classification)
  Fashion plates
  
• Who: A. Chaillot
  Sylvain
  Sylvia's Home Journal
  
• Where: England, London
  
• Event:
• Description: One of three fashion plates from Sylvia's Home Journal, showing women's and children's wear, 1888, 1889 and one plate possibly 1881
  Fashion plate showing two evening dresses, one with a train, signed 'Sylvain' and 'A. Chaillot', from Sylvia's Home Journal, London, November 1889
  
• References:
  • Norris, H & Curtis, O. Costume & Fashion, Volume Six, The Nineteenth Century. London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1933, p 248. 
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