Introducing Fashion Plate Friday

As many of you know, here at Timely Tresses, we love fashion plates.  We love collecting them.  We love investigating dates when we come across plates which we are not familiar.  Over the next few weeks at least, I am determined to put beautiful things on the internet to brighten days that might not look so sunny.  I hope to start a number of different series of images, the first of which is Fashion Plate Friday.  This hand-colored steel engraving appeared in Godey's Lady's Book in April of 1845.