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Costume Institute Fashion Plates

Detail of a fashion plate showing a woman wearing a low-cut black dress and a veiled black hat

This collection contains digitized fashion plates from the Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library. The plates feature men's, women's, and children's fashion and date between 1700 and 1955. The original items are contained in more than one hundred binders and boxes organized by date and/or topic.

Fashion Plates, 1790-1929, 1700-1955 and men's 1880-1939 sub-collections: