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REBEL cover reveal!!

June 29, 2015 By BlissBennet Leave a Comment

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Ackermann’s Repository Fashion Plates April 1809

June 26, 2015 By BlissBennet Leave a Comment

From Ackermann’s Repository, April 1809, pages 249-50, a full dress and a walking dress, along with rather opinionated commentary (what’s so bad about red??):

Full Dress
Walking Dress

 

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Ackermann’s Fashion Plates March 1809

June 17, 2015 By BlissBennet Leave a Comment

 

Ackermann’s Repository Fashion plates for March 1809, vol.  1.3, pages 185-86, featuring a walking dress and an opera dress. Also from this issue, a plate and description of “Harding, Howell & Co.’s Grand Fashionable Magazine, no. 89 Pall Mall” (page 187):


 

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And check out this cool ad, asking for manufacturers of “fancy goods” to submit samples to Ackermann’s (complete with real pieces of fabric!)

 

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Filed Under: Regency History Tagged With: A, clothing, dress

Ackermann’s Fashion Plates February 1809

June 10, 2015 By BlissBennet Leave a Comment

Installment #2 in the Great Ackermann’s Fashion Plate project: two plates from the the February 1809 edition, pages 121-22, along with written commentary:



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The Great Ackermann’s Fashion Plate Project

June 3, 2015 By BlissBennet Leave a Comment

 

In my last post, I asked if there was anywhere on the web where one could easily view both the plates and the written commentary of the fashion plates published in Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Science, and Commerce. Since I had no replies in the positive, I’ve decided to undertake the project of uploading pictures of Ackermann’s fashion plates, along with the commentary accompanying them, here on this blog. Here, then, are the plates from the first issue of the Repository, from January 1809, vol. 1.1, pages 52-53.

 

I’ll try to include terms from the write-ups with which I was not be familiar:

Medicis = Medici collar (also de Medici collar), a large, fan-shaped collar, usually of lace, wired to stand upright at the back and sloping to meet a square neckline at the collar. The style was made fashionable in the 17th century by the Medici women, esp. Marie de Médicis, Queen of France, and was revived in a less extravagant form in the 19th century. (courtesy of the OED).

 


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Check back next Wednesday for February 1809’s plates and descriptions.

Filed Under: Regency History Tagged With: Ackermanns, clothing, dress

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