Costume Plates were used to show how costume was worn in the past. they were black and white engravings with mostly men, reaching there peak in the 1640s.
Engraved by Grainger, published in Barnard's History of England 1783.
Fashion Plates were used to promote and publicise possible future fashions. starting in the 1770s in The Lady's Magazine which ran until 1837 and in other magazines such as Cabinet Des Modes 1785-89 and Journal de la Mode et du Gout 1790-93. These were the influential magazines of the times. Fashion plates really reached there peak in the 19th century.
Promenade Dresses from 1858
Le Follet Courier des Salons was one of the longest lived fashion plate magazines, first appearing in 1829. This magazine was the equivalent to Vogue of today.
Le Follet Courrier des Salons
The Queens Magazine is the longest running magazine, established in 1861 by Samuel Beeton then in 1862 it was sold to william cox and renamed The Queen, it was then sold again in 1968 and is now called Harpers And The Queen more commonly Known as Harpers Bazaar.
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