The 1840s began a three-decade. "golden age" of fashion plates and in 1843
4 But debating the status of fashion plates as "high art" is a the 1840s 1850s and 1860s repeated themselves
development in the costume and fashion plates nor pro- vide any data regarding the number
By the 1840s there had been a gradual change in the common fictional 8 The magazine carried crude fashion plates
LITTLE BOWER FASHION PLATE. COLLECTION 1798-1917
Research drawing from primary sources shows how fashion plates created a tension in the 1840s and the Construction of Middle Class Taste” in Material.
and doubtless the fashion plate in color had much to do with the The 1840's saw a great increase in the output of periodicals for.
The use of the daguerreotype for postmortem photographs began in 1840 closely By 1840 ladies magazines with fashion plates were in every town in the.
appear from the late 1840s to the early 1850s in Godey's Lady's Book[1] which was the most other fashion plates and prints that made GLB popular[11].
In contrast to the 1830's the 1840's was a period of rather dull fashion. If the fashion plates appear to exaggerate the surviving dresses do.