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Ackermann’s Repository Fashion Plates: July 1809

This week’s installment of the great Ackermann fashion plate project is from the July 1809 issue, volume 2 issue 1, pages 46-48, along with another page of fabric samples (between pages 60 and 61):

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ackermann’s Repository Fashion Plates June 1809

The plates from Ackermann’s Repository‘s June 1809 issue (I.vi, pages 397-98): All Walking Dresses, all the time. And for the first time, a picture of a child’s outfit!

And, at the back of this volume, another Ackermann’s advertisement with actual fabric samples pasted in:

 

And finally, in the June 1809 Supplement to Volume 1, a plate of “Fashionable Headdresses” (I.supplement, page 494):

 

 

Ackermann’s Fashion Plates May 1809

Fashion plates published in the May 1809 edition of Ackermann’s Repository (Vol. I, no. v, pages 328-30).

My favorite line: “The attempt to introduce long waists has completely failed; they have not, nor will they ever become fashionable.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking forward to hearing Arbiter Elegantiarum‘s thoughts in the next issue on “general rules for the adaptation of the colors introduced in dress to the various characters and complexions of the lovely wearers.”

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Ackermann’s Repository Fashion Plates April 1809

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??):

 

 

Ackermann’s Fashion Plates March 1809

 

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):

 

 

 

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

 

Ackermann’s Fashion Plates February 1809

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: