1840s fashion plate

Recently, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Teel House Regency Retreat. I shared several millinery techniques with the participants. To allow for further practice and review, I have...

Ladies' Companion May 1857 LAPL

Two women are depicted in front of a balustrade, with trees in the distance. The woman on the left wears her hair up in a bun with ringlets covering her ears. Her dress is a light pink with black vertical stripes. The pink dress is off the shoulder with capped short sleeves. Underneath it she wears a white blouse with long full sleeves, and a high neck with a ruffle. The woman also wears a green apron tied around her waist. The apron has four horizontal black stripes of trim at the bottom…

A woman wears a pink bonnet with large white plumes and pink flowers inside the brim. Her dress is green with long narrow sleeves with pleats down the sleeves, and narrow white lace ruffles at the cuff. The bodice is V-necked with pleats rising from the center front out over the shoulders, and has a wide ruffled lace or net collar with a brooch.

Fashion plate, 1847 Germany, Pariser Moden

See a fascinating collection of Antique Fashion Plates! A variety of fashionable 1800 and early 1900 Dresses! Vintage Ladies Fashion pictures.

charles dickens romantic early victorian fashion plate

Episode 85: Today I talk with Andrea Rosen at The Fleming, at the University of Vermont. She tells me all about The Impossible Ideal exhibition. She tells us how the beautiful fashions of the Victorian era were a form of misogyny. This exhibition will be up until December 15, 1018 LEFT: Ball Gown, about 1860. […]