What's a costume plate? A costume plate shows a costume as it was worn in the past, they are about the fashions of the past.
What's a fashion plate? Fashion plates promote and publicise possible future fashions, they are about fashion ideas of now or the near future
Fashion plates reached their peak in the 19th century when they were hand coloured engravings, Albrecht Dwer made the first costume plate in 1494 when he made a record of clothing styles typical of national and regional dresses of Nuremberg and Vienna.
The 'Gallery of Fashion' was created by Nicholaus Wilhelm von Heideloff. Each issue contained 2 lovingly hand coloured aquatints finished with gold, silver and other metallic paints
Fashion plates hardly existed before the french revolution which was in 1789, they belong to the 19th century. They began in England with the publication of an English monthly magazine called 'The Lady's Magazine'. Fashion plates were also featured in the 'Cabinet des Modes' (1785-1789) and 'Journal de la Mode et du Gout' (1790-1793) magazines.
The 'Queen Magazine'- known as the ladies newspaper was the longest running English fashion magazine from 1890-1908. In 1968 the 'Queen' was bought out by Harpers and then called 'Harper and Queen'. Today it is now known as 'Harpers Bazaar', a top fashion magazine which is a highly regarded glossy fashion 'bible'
Another highly regarded fashion magazine of Today is 'Vogue Magazine' which was first published in 1892. Here is an image of the first cover.
Le Bon Ton
The Delineator magazine- which was a journal of fashion, culture, fine arts and self-help articles.
The first issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, published in 1886.
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion and politics.The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935 after a run from 1913.
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