Description:
Fashion engravings or plates, so named because they were originally engraved illustrations in magazines, were a major sourse of news about changing styles of dress in the late 18th century and all of the 19th century. More economical to produce and ship than earlier fashion dolls, (known as fashion babies in England and poupees des modes in France), fashion engravings cuold be used by amateur sewers and experienced dressmakers alike to reproduce elements of current fashion. Since the mid-late 17th century, France led the way in the innovation of new styles, which were communicated through the publication of new fashion images. These French modes were then enthusiastically copied by English publications as well as other European countries. Fashion engravings made their way to America, where colonists, and later citizens of the United States, still eagerly sought fashion information from abroad. This example is a loose fashion lithograph "La Mode de Paris. No. 18/ Journal a 6 fr. par an./ Montaut del.et sc." and "Robe en satin a dentelle de Mins. de M. Delisle, facon de Mde Lallemand rue haute-ville 4. Toque en satin damasse et gaze d'or. Robe en satin broche. Guimpe en blonde. bonnet a la Sevigne." Le Bureau de la Mode de Paris, Place de Louvre, No. 18/ Fevrier 1834." This information serves two purposes; it makes stronger French connections to the fashionbale clothing depicted (suggesting closer ties to the center ofwestern fashion in Paris) and also serves to inform readers where they can obtain similar styles, much like modern fashion magazines and blogs today.
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