Fashion plate, from La Mode Illustreé

Add to album

This hand-coloured fashion plate is from La Mode Illustreé, a fashion magazine published in Paris. Dating from 1897, the plate illustrates two day dresses and hats. It is signed, 'Anaïs Toudouze'.

The smooth front to these dresses is achieved by the insertion of gores (tapering pieces of cloth) in the back, just about at the level of the top of the thighs, thus creating a small train.

Adèle Anaïs Toudouze was the second daughter of Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798-1875), a painter and lithographer. Along with her sisters, Héloïse and Laure, she was responsible for some of the most charming fashion plates of the mid-nineteenth century.

Record details

To search on related items, click any underlined text below.

• Online ID: 000-100-087-518-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
  Project description   View all records in project
• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 67.103
• Date: 1861 - 1904
  1897
  
• Material: Plate, fashion
  
• Dimensions:
• What: Plate, fashion
  
• Subject: Fashion plates (NMAS Classification)
  
• Who:
• Where:
• Event:
• 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, pp 152-7 & 160. 
  • Tarrant, Naomi. The Development of Costume. London & New York. NMS & Routledge, 1994, p 80. 
• Translations:
• Related Records: