1780 fashion plate

Historic Ladies in Fashion- fashion plates from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

This following fashion plate has appeared on my Pinterest feed quite a few times over the past couple of days and I guess many of you, who have already seen the said fashion plate and spent a lot of time browsing the pages of The Cut of Women's Clothes by Norah Waugh, have noticed that the cut of the dress depicted in it looks quite close to one of the patterns in the book (see diagram XXXII). It's a pity London Museum doesn't have photos of the original garment, that the pattern was taken…

Fashion Plate, 'Carriage Dress' for 'The Repository of Arts', Rudolph Ackermann (England, London, 1764-1834), England, London, January 1, 1818, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

Fashion Plate, ‘Promenade Dress’ for ‘The Repository of Arts’, Rudolph Ackermann (England, London, 1764-1834), England, London, November 1, 1826, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

I have a lovely assortment of French fashion plates from the years 1780-1782 for today's post and a new digital scene depicting one of those beauties. I've stated before that I'm drawn to fashion plates that show the back of a garment. I especially liked this 1780 dress in the "Robe à l'Anglaise" style, so today's digital scene was created using that lovely fashion plate but in a new teal color I created. On a previous post, I created a digital scene using another fashion plate showing the…

If you're anything like us, you have probably been really into the moment the color pink is having in fashion this summer, thanks to a certain iconic doll. It's been really fun and inspiring to see people from all different aesthetic groups and fashion spaces

Two women, the left one facing away, and the right one sitting down. The woman on the left wears a white bonnet trimmed in pink with a pink ribbon rosette. She wears a pink dress and a green mantelet or short cape with three rows of white lace ruffles at the hem, a lace edged collar, and a folded center front fastened with small green clasps. She wears tan gloves and holds a white ruffle-edged handkerchief. The woman on the right wears a green bonnet with six small plumes down the side, a…

Download this stock image: Two Market Women. Artist: Jacobus Perkois (Dutch, Middelburg 1756-1804 Middelburg); Date: 1789; Medium: Blue chalk, black chalk, and watercolor; - KNFTFY from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

Fasion of 1780's