Steele, Valerie: Paris Fashion: A Cultural History, Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-19-504465-7. Vintage Limited Edition Porcelain Art Plate Created By The Friends Of World Wide Art Studio, 1981 Art Plate By Artist Deborah Denise Young. Mo Stones Good Quality Bought this as a Christmas gift for my grand-daughter so haven't actually opened it. The plates were patterned plates that a kid put together to form a fashionable outfit, and then colored over with paper and colored pencils. The new Fashion Plates® design set makes it easy and fun for aspiring designers to create their own fabulous fashion designs.

This method of disseminating fashionable styles was mostly popular during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Prior to the French Revolution, fashion plates were rare, and usually small black and white illustrations in annual diaries, known as pocket-books. I picked up both of these sets at Goodwill a few years ago and it was truly a fortunate find as both sets are complete and in very good condition. I waited until my daughters were old enough to appreciate the fact that I let them use my childhood toys and kept them as well as I did. It's about time the fun of etched plate art has opened up to the wider world of the non-fashion-conscious!

I remember playing with my Fashion Plates for many hours trying to see how many different fashions could be made out of it.

All photos, text, blog design, and other content ©2009-2020 Collette of Serendipity Handmade and Serendipity Vintage unless otherwise noted. I just recently purchased the newest version of Fashion Plates for my 11 year old daughter for Christmas and she loves them. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. The introduction of an educated middle class also allowed for a more fashion-conscious population that became devoted to fashion plate publications. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Tomy revived the concept as a toy marketed simply as Fashion Plates.

The increasing popularity of photography in the early 20th century spelled the end for fashion plates, as photos offered a realistic portrayal of fashionable styles.To me, Fashion Plates just said: I am six years old and cannot wait to snag a husband and color-coordinate (squee! The girl and cat scene can make it attractive and necessary for your dollhouse to play allday long household companion. The majority can be found in ladies' fashion magazines which began to appear during the last decades of the eighteenth century. Originally released in 1978 Fashion Plates consisted of three different-sized plates that made up a fashion and you would switch them around making new styles. Psst, honestly, two of the figures are fairly androgynous, so you could really use their heads as either boys or girls.

With this amazing fashion designer set, you don't even need to be an artist - all you need is your impeccable fashion sense and a thirst for glamour and style! The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings. However, the subscriber-driven and increasingly competitive market for periodicals meant that fashion plates would become increasingly common throughout the 1840s.Young fashionistas choose from 15 different “rubbing plates” to create a unique ensemble that includes a top, bottom and shoes. The ability to mix and match plates offered children a wide range of outfit combinations to choose from as their portfolio took shape. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive.