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Fashion plate Wikipedia. A fashion plate is an illustration (a plate) demonstrating the highlights of fashionable styles of clothing. Traditionally they are rendered through etching, line engraving, or lithograph and then colored by hand. To quote historian James Laver, the best of them tend to "reach a very high degree of aesthetic. See more

Fashion plate Wikipedia
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Fashion plates from the late 18th to the early 20th century are hand-colored engravings that appeared in women’s magazines and fashion journals. Since clothing could not be obtained ready-made, these plates provided information.

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