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What is the Fashion plate?
 In the 18th Century, the center of the society had a noble class in Europe, and as for the dress, vogue was started from the brilliant French people of the Imperial Court. At the beginning, usually used the doll "Fashion doll" wearing the real dress to tell the forefront of noble class vogue fashion to Europe every place.
And then, in the 19th century through the English Industrial Revolution and a French citizen revolution, the citizen class became a social bearer, and the people was able to ware the dress as they like. Increasing the rich citizens play a central role capitalist, and many kinds of Fashion magazine was become publish to tell about the dress vogue.
And more, the development of the fiber industry brought the comfortableness to enjoy the dress to wide class citizens.
Fashion plate is the illustration to explain the dress vogue on these fashion magazines before materialize the photo technology, and this explain the citizens longing in those days. And the kinds of magazines published in hole Europe was over a hundred in the peak period. And the circulation of minor magazine was a couple of hundred, but major magazine was over the 20 thousand. And this numbers shows how popular to read the magazines in the citizens.
Fashion plates in 19th Century were usually printed by etching or engraving with hand-colored, but some of one was printed by Lithograph in 20th Century. And some Fashion plates have the artistic value with autograph of original picture's artist.
Then, in the 20th Century, these time-consuming Fashion plates changes to the photograph with the technology advance. But you can still feel the emanation of 18-19th Century's citizen energy from these Fashion plates.
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