Fashion plate, from The Queen

This hand-coloured fashion plate is from The Queen, a monthly magazine published in London. The plate illustrates examples of day wear and evening wear and is dated 6 August, 1887.

The outfits include the large, but fashionable, bustle. It consisted of a kind of projecting shelf of wadding or wire around which the dress could be built. Shaped rather like a lobster pot it could be pushed aside when the wearer sat down.

From 1885 until 1888 The Queen's fashion plates were made up of a selection of ten or twelve large imported French plates, reduced into one large plate.

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Online ID:	000-100-087-697-C
Image Rights Holder:	National Museums Scotland
Project:	0098: National Museums Scotland Project description \| View all records in project
Ref:	National Museums Scotland H.RHI 87.16
Date:	1877 - 1894 1887
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What:	Plate, fashion
Subject:	Fashion plates (NMAS Classification)
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Description:	One of thirty-three fashion plates from The Queen, showing women's and children's wear, dated 1877 - 1894
References:	Holland, Vyvyan. Hand Coloured Fashion Plates 1770 to 1899. London: B.T. Batsford, 1955, p 104. Langley Moore, Doris. Fashion through Fashion Plates 1771-1970. London: Ward Lock Ltd, 1971, p 120.
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