#fashion plates

[alexandriaellisart]

blue butterflies 🦋

[rancidmice]

sangfielle art time yayyyyy

i was dying to do fashion plate recreations with the girlz but i had to finish my secret sample first. so yay here we are 🥰 also i’ve decided that sangfielle is in its 1870’s fashion era because first bustle period is my fave

[empirearchives]

Fashion prints from Journal des Dames et des Modes

1808-1814, Napoleonic era

CMU

[clove-pinks]

Looks of 1833

Hunting dress and black frock coat, day dress with brown frock coat, and evening dress with dressing gown.

[surikane]

Le Comte de Monte Cristo as fashion plates

[artschoolglasses]

Beaux Arts de Modes - 1920

[vintagefashionplates]

Colour drawing of Godey's women's Fashion for August 1880 from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, 1880 Philadelphia, Louis A. Godey. (x)

[fashion-from-the-past]

1889

[badassindistress]

The old lady's craft room ecosystem has landed me a treasure!

A book from the 1980s with prints of 1912-1925 fashion plates from the Gazette du Bon Ton! Here are some of my favourites:

They're really fun, illustrations by the likes of George Barbier and Georges Lepape for couture houses like Worth and Lanvin.

They range from dramatic fashion illustration:

To suggested situations where to wear the outfit:

To full story concepts:

(I think the Salomé one is my favourite)

There's more! Much more silly ones I'll post later.

(link here when I do)

[heaveninawildflower]

Dessins originaux des Modes, 1858-1865 by Albert Adam, Hippolyte Pauquet.

Bibliothèque nationale de France.

[jewellery-box]

Magazine of Female Fashions of London and Paris, No. 29.1: London, July. 1800: Evening Dress; Full Dress, Richard Phillips, 1800

Rijks Museum

[alexandriaellisart]

purls

[memoriesofmine]

[empirearchives]

Women’s Hairstyles during the First French Empire

1800-1804:

1804-1807:

1807-1811

1812-1815

Top row 1815:

Book: Fashions in Hair, by Richard Corson

[clove-pinks]

The hourglass silhouette of men's clothing in the Romantic era of the 1820s and 1830s is well-known, but I feel like people don't appreciate the curvy ideal also expected of 1840s men. Even with the pigeon-breasted look, shoulders are dropped, arms are soft, and the waist is nipped, particularly in evening dress.

An illustration by Archibald Henning for The Natural History of Stuck-Up People, 1847.

Paul Gavarni, 1840 (because you knew Paul Gavarni was going to be in this post)

A more casual look in a c. 1840s fashion plate (British Museum), but his figure is still androgynous.

1845 fashion plate details, Victoria and Albert Museum.

[aquietjune]

Little Bird, Little Updates

1. I will post Chapter 9 on Thursday.

2. During this past week I managed to move a little ahead with the general revision, so: YAY! More time to write the additional scenes.

2b. Let’s not comment on the fact that chapter 10 is my crux and I will never be happy with it no matter what I do.

3. However, Text B from chapter 12 still needs to be actually written, and this is a part that gets me nervous, so please root for me here.

3b. No, you have no idea of what Text B is but maybe you will after chapter 12 (although I fear there will be more interesting things going on by then).

4. I had to cure myself out of the angst of the latest chapters so I hope it’s still bearable on your side. Things… will change… soon. Ish.

5. I don’t get how it is possible that so many of the books that I started reading in the past year turned out to be so in tune with this story… and completely accidentally; there must be a curse.

(That’s just my taste, I gather. And celestial correspondences.)

6. Random fashion plate for you because the gala is coming up.

See you soon!