Fashion plates
from 12 December 2013 to 1 April 2014
Engraved and lithographed illustrations from the 19th century fashion magazines.
Peter and Paul Fortress, Exhibition hall of the Ioannovsky ravelin
Museum collection of fashion plates of the 1820-1910s is exhibited for the first time.
“Fashion plates” are colored engravings depicting fashionable ladies and gents toilets and accessories, which were issued on separate sheets as an application to the European fashion magazines. These images served as an instruction of what and how to wear for a fashionable person of the 19th - early 20th century or a person who tried to be fashionable. “Fashion plates” were analogue of modern glossy magazines.
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