Fashion Plates Design Set

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Ingham, Erika. “Fashion Plates introduction.” The National Portrait Gallery. Accessed June 28, 2019. https://www.npg.org.uk/research/fashionplates/fashion-plates-introduction.

In winter heavier velvets, cotton, linens, fine wools, and silks were used and sometimes extra warmth came from flannel petticoats or full under-slip dresses. Clothes began to be collected as soon as the idea of a museum for London became reality in 1911. Until around the 1960s mainly garments from earlier periods were added with the exception of the two World Wars when contemporary collecting took place. The early curators of the museum were aware of the importance of clothes to bring history to life and in 1933 the museum was the first in Britain to publish a catalogue of its costume collection.One of her subsequent accomplishments, however, was the completion of a book entitled "History of Costume", a college textbook describing the evolution of fashion from 3000 B.C. to 1900. Published in 1965, it contains detailed descriptions of historical and cultural fashion along with renditions of small-scale garment patterns that she meticulously drafted from various museum collections. To research her book, she spent two years avidly collecting illustrations: photographs, postcards, art prints, and fashion plates. Her book is still considered today a foremost resource in the study of costume history. It reflects her teaching philosophy that the study of original artifacts is of essential importance in the understanding of good design. Screenprint with offset lithography, hand colouring and collage 29 1/2 × 25 5/8 (749 × 650) on paper 39 × 27 1/4 (990 × 692) watermarked ‘FABRIANO’, offset lithography printed by Sergio and Fausta Tosi, Milan, screenprinting by Chris Prater at Kelpra Studio, published by Petersburg Press in an edition of 70 This collection is currently closed to researchers due to a major collections audit, in preparation for the Museum of London’s move to West Smithfield. Cornu, Paul, ed. and preface. Galeries des Modes et Costumes Francais, dessinés d'après nature, 1778-1787. New, collected edition. Paris: E. Lévy, 1911-1914.

Post-French Revolution simplified dress - Full skirt raised waist Empire dresses from the late 1790s Are Fashion Plates Accurate? - The Costume Rag". The Costume Rag. 2018-01-31 . Retrieved 2018-02-03.

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The Redingote was worn from 1818 onwards initially indoors in cold weather, worn open whilst revealing the dress beneath.Its name derives from the 18 th century version of a riding coat. It was used in place of a loose cloak and as it developed a series of shoulder capes it became very suitable for travel. As dresses widened so the Redingote widened. The Napoleonic Wars meant that a soldier's uniform had high visibility and military-style details featured on clothing for both sexes. As the fashion for military touches persisted, many Pelisses and Spencers were covered in decorative braids, tassels, frogging, and cords, as a result, their wearers looked like members of the Hussars.