1820 fashion

Fashion Plate, ‘Ball Dress’ for ‘The Repository of Arts’, Rudolph Ackermann (England, London, 1764-1834), England, London, May 1, 1826, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

Fashion Plate, ‘Dinner Dress’ for ‘The Repository of Arts’, Rudolph Ackermann (England, London, 1764-1834), England, London, April 1, 1825, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

Welcome back to another installment of Regency fashions from the pages of Ackermann's Repository. In my last post for 1818 - I gave a bit of information about Mourning dress customs, since these were playing a significant part in fashions that year. Ackermann's published a record number of 4 fashion plates depicting Full-Mourning dress; then to started off the new year of 1819, they published 2 fashion plates showing Half-Mourning as the Royal court continued in it's mourning for beloved…

Fashion Plate (Fancy Ball Dress), Rudolph Ackermann (England, London, 1764-1834), England, London, August 1, 1820, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

Fashion Plate, 'Promenade Dress' for 'The Repository of Arts', Rudolph Ackermann (England, London, 1764-1834), England, London, October 1, 1824, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

1824 May 1st. London. Blue Dinner Dress with puffed sleeves, white lacy shawl, white hat trimmed with pink roses and plumes. Rudolph Ackermann Fashion Plate collections.lacma.org Dress Historical Fashion Costume

Fashion Plate, ‘Promenade Dress’ for ‘The Repository of Arts’, Rudolph Ackermann (England, London, 1764-1834), England, London, October 1, 1827, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.