Fashion Plate Friday: May 1833

Recently, I have been redoing our fashion plate books for the 1830s.  One exciting development in the 1830s is the appearance of American fashion magazines with hand colored plates.  Although frequently copied from European magazines,  they give us a look at the fashion American editors were sharing with their readers.  In the beginning of the 1830s, there are usually only two plates per six month volume and they often do not offer descriptions,  This plate is from The Ladies Magazine in May 1833 edited by Sarah Josepha Hale. The Ladies Magazine and The Lady's Book were still two separate entities in 1833, but eventually joined forces to become Godey's Lady's Book.