Fashion Plates Design Set

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However, the wooden case itself is beautiful and I'm sure the contents look amazing from the photo on the label. It's a book in which evolution, a concept that even some adults have difficulty grasping, is presented in a way that's easy for children to understand and appreciate.

Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. Portraits, especially royal portraits, served as the base for the future of fashion plates, as they offered a visual cue as to the popular styles, fabrics and embellishments of the time.

The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings. lel511 Perfect gift Perfect gift for a budding designer, great to have all the bits together in the carry case to avoid getting lost. The set I bought had a few designs left inside from the previous owner, a Miss Kristin Meier, and they really took me back to my childhood!

In fact, Marie Antoinette's dressmaker, Rose Bertin, was known to tour the continent every year with berlines containing dolls outfitted with the latest fashionable styles. I think I loved it because it allowed me to dream and think about how different pieces of an outfit would go together. You can use the 15 unique fashion plates to quickly and easily copy any of the included clothes and mannequin designs, or even sketch your very own clothing and accessories from scratch!The popularity of Fashion Plates allowed Tomy to release More Fashion Plates, an expansion pack of 15 extra plates that added more model, clothing, and texture design options to the mix. However, the subscriber-driven and increasingly competitive market for periodicals meant that fashion plates would become increasingly common throughout the 1840s. 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. Steele, Valerie: Paris Fashion: A Cultural History, Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-19-504465-7.