Today's offering (the first of hopefully many Fashion Plate Fridays to come), is from Magasin des Demoiselles, February, 1859 and features some lovely children's fashions in addition to the more common adult subject. A number of my female characters are young girls in the 1850s, so I have been particularly looking for these kinds of examples.
Children's clothes wouldn't become more practical under late in the century. For most of the era, girls dresses were simply miniature versions of what their mothers were wearing, with shorter skirts until age 14-18 (depending on the culture and social status of the family), when a girl was expected to come into society as marriageable young lady.
I especially like the little blue booties on the older of the two girls here (probably dyed satin in this case).
This plate was found at the immense and amazing Casey Fashion Plates Index, courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library.
Children's clothes wouldn't become more practical under late in the century. For most of the era, girls dresses were simply miniature versions of what their mothers were wearing, with shorter skirts until age 14-18 (depending on the culture and social status of the family), when a girl was expected to come into society as marriageable young lady.
I especially like the little blue booties on the older of the two girls here (probably dyed satin in this case).
This plate was found at the immense and amazing Casey Fashion Plates Index, courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library.
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