Historical Fashion Plates
Intended for wealthy clients, “fashion plates” first appeared in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries but grew in popularity during the Victorian era.
The following titles are a sample of the Library's large collection of historical fashion plates published in European and American magazines.
A collection of the dresses of different nations
Call Number: MMC+ (Collection of the dresses of different nations)Publication Date: 1757-72A complete view of the dress and habits of the people of England
Call Number: 3-MMK+ (Strutt, J. Complete view of the dress and habits of the people of England)Publication Date: 1842
Costumes historiques des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe sièclesCall Number: MMC+ (Duplessis, G. V. A. G. Costumes historiques)Publication Date: 1867Costumes parisiens de la fin du 18ème siècle et du commencement du 19ème. A collection of plates, numbered continuously 1-2373 and arranged in annual volumes. The drawings were by Mésangère...[et al.]." Originally published in: Gazette des salons; journal des dames et des modes, Paris.
Call Number: MMA (Gazette) (Costumes parisiens de la fin du 18ème siècle et du commencement du 19ème)Publication Date: 1799-1825A Critical inquiry into antient armour
Call Number: MMC+ (Meyrick, S. R. Critical inquiry into antient armour)Publication Date: 1842Gallerie der Costüme auf historischen, nationellen und characteristischen Grundlagen für das Theater
Call Number: MMC (Schneider, L. Gallerie der Costume auf historischen)Publication Date: 1844-1848
Histoire et costumes des orders religieux, civils et militariesCall Number: MMED (Tiron, R. Histoire et costumes des ordres religieux)Publication Date: 1845Iconographie générale et méthodique du costume du 4e au 19e siècle
Call Number: MMC++ (Jacquemin, R. Costume du IVe au XIXe siecle.)Publication Date: 1869Kostümsammlung Lipperheide
Call Number: MMC (Lipperheide, F. J. von. Kostumsammlung Lipperheide)Publication Date: 1884Le costume historique...
Call Number: MMC+ (Racinet, A. C. A. Costume historique)Publication Date: 1888
Historical Titles
Scholarly literature on costume history and fashion theory began in earnest in the mid-to-late 1960s. The first important fashion theory publications treated clothing as a key symptom of social change.
20,000 years of fashion; the history of costume and personal adornment by Call Number: *R-ART GT510 .B6713 1967aPublication Date: 1967
Dress and undress: a history of women's underwear by Call Number: JQF 15-1337ISBN: 9780896760004Publication Date: 1978
Fashion : the changing shape of fashion through the years by Call Number: MMC 77-83ISBN: 9780706403442Publication Date: 1974
The History of Haute Couture Eighteen Fifty to Nineteen Fifty by Call Number: TT504 .D45 1980ISBN: 9780841905863Publication Date: 1980
Mirror, Mirror by
Trends in men's and women's fashions from the beginnings of human history to the 1970s are examined against the backdrop of changing social values and sexual mores.
Call Number: *R-ART GT511 .B37 1977ISBN: 9780030210167Publication Date: 1977
