An article by Stella Mary Pearce on how costume evidence exposes a forged Italian Renaissance painting, the Portrait Group in the National Gallery, London, once taken for a 15th-century work and possibly linked to the Montefeltro family. She argues that the sleeves, caps, bonnet, gloves and checker-pattern trim are misunderstood copies of 1490s fashion, and that they instead reflect 1913 fashions influenced by Jugendstil and Leon Bakst's gowns for Paris couture. The article is illustrated with plates of Carpaccio, Crivelli and Klimt paintings and with Gazette du Bon Ton fashion plates.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, August 1845. It shows a mid-19th-century domestic interior with a seated woman in a lace-trimmed cap with blue ribbon and a pale striped gown, holding a small object above an infant asleep in a canopied cradle. There is no printed text on the page.

A single engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, January 1843. It shows five women in an elaborate interior with a mantel clock, candelabra, draped curtains and a patterned carpet, wearing gowns of the period, including a striped dress with lace-up bodice trim. The page has no text and no weaving content; it is useful as a costume reference.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, October 1842. It shows four women in mid-19th-century dress against a line-drawn garden and foliage background. The plate carries no printed text, so it is useful mainly as a visual reference for 1840s women's costume, gown trim and fabric patterns.

A single landscape-format fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, July 1840, showing four women in day dress in a garden setting with shrubs and a balustrade. Costumes include a bonnet and a wide skirt trimmed with embroidered floral borders. The page has no text and no weaving content.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book showing four women in mid-19th-century winter outdoor dress, posed before bare trees and an iron fence. The costumes include a blue silk cape with floral embroidery and black lace trim. The page has no printed text, so it is useful mainly as a visual reference for 1843 American women's fashion.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, April 1845. It shows six women in a parlor with draped curtains, wearing a range of day and evening dresses, including a pale blue dress with a lace shawl and blue headscarf and a dark navy dress seen from behind. The plate has no legible text and is useful as a reference for American women's fashion of the mid-1840s.

A single engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, May 1843. It shows three women in mid-19th-century dress in a domestic interior with draped curtains, a sofa, a chair and a window onto climbing plants. One seated woman wears lace-trimmed clothing. The page has no text that can be read.

A single hand-colored engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, August 1837. It shows a woman in a 17th-century style costume: a blue silk gown with a lace-trimmed bodice and tiered lace sleeves, over a gold embroidered skirt with floral scrollwork. There is no printed text on the page.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, December 1845. It shows a mid-19th-century domestic interior with five figures, including a woman in a green dress and bonnet bending toward a small boy in a blue jacket and plaid trousers who holds a hat. It is useful as a visual reference for American women's and children's dress of the mid-1840s.

A single engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, July 1841, printed in landscape orientation. It shows five figures in mid-19th-century dress, including a woman in an off-shoulder bodice with rosette trim and a full skirt with a rosette garland, and a young girl in a short-sleeved dress. The plate carries no captions or printed text.

A single hand-colored engraved fashion plate showing five women and a young child in late-19th-century dress, posed against a garden and balustrade backdrop. The figures wear mantles, trimmed gowns and ribbons typical of the period. The page carries no readable text, so the plate is of use mainly for costume and dress history.

A single black-and-white engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, July 1840. It shows four women in mid-19th-century dress, including one in a bonnet and a plaid or checked silk gown with ruffled flounces. No readable text accompanies the image in the scan.

A single hand-colored-style fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, November 1844, set in a decorative Greek-key border. It shows two women in mid-19th-century dress; the woman at left wears a dark bodice with lace trim and fringed sleeves and holds a feathered fan. The page has no text that can be read, so only the image can be described.

A single hand-engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, July 1844, showing four women in mid-19th-century dress in a garden with a diamond lattice fence and shrubbery. One gown is striped and another is floral-patterned. The page has no caption or text, so it is useful only as a visual record of 1840s women's fashion and printed dress fabrics.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, November 1839, showing three adult women and a young girl in full-skirted gowns trimmed with lace and ruffles. One gown is pink with an embroidered hem. The plate has no legible caption or printed text.

A single hand-colored engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, September 1844. It shows two women in mid-19th-century day dress standing in an interior with a door, a small table holding a book and inkstand, a red-cushioned stool, and a patterned carpet. No printed text or descriptive caption appears on the page.

A single-page engraved fashion plate of evening costumes for March, furnished by Brown, from Harper's New Monthly Magazine. It shows four women in evening dress, including a bodice and skirt border with a Greek-key pattern. The page carries only a caption, with no descriptive text about fabrics or construction.

A single-page line engraving of a standing medieval woman in a long gown with a fitted head covering. One arm is extended outward and the other holds the skirt or draped fabric. The plate illustrates historical female dress for the period given in the catalog title (1087 to 1154) and comes from an 1836 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. It carries no text.

A one-page illustrated article on women's dress in England during the reign of Henry V (early 15th century). It describes the horned head-dress, alternatives such as golden hair-nets and rolled head-tires, and gowns with long trains, tabard sleeves, cote-hardies and inner tunics. Figures show horned head-dresses, including one taken from the effigy of Beatrice, Countess of Arundel.

A single hand-colored engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book titled "Godey's Fashions for April 1880." It shows five women and a young boy in dress of the period, including a woman in dark mourning-style dress with a black hat and a bride in a white veil and gown. The plate carries no article text beyond its caption.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book showing five women and a young girl in fashionable dress of the period, including a dark blue dress with a velvet bow and a white lace-trimmed gown with pink accents. The printed caption reads "Godey's Fashions for September 1880." It is useful as a visual reference for women's and children's costume of the early 1880s.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book titled "Godey's Fashions for March 1879." It shows five women and a young boy in late-1870s dress, including a yellow pleated and ruffled gown, a pink satin dress with a white lace collar, and a dark brown dress. The plate is useful for studying women's and children's fashion and trimmings of the period.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, December 1843. It shows six framed views of women in mid-19th-century dress, including a central oval vignette of a seated woman in a lace shawl and pink gown surrounded by a floral wreath. No captions or text are legible on the page.

A single engraved fashion plate from Harper's Weekly, April 16, 1859, titled "Paris Fashions for April." It shows several women in crinoline gowns with fringed or ruffled skirts, floral bouquets, and a fur-trimmed wrap, with a man in a dark coat standing among them. The only text is the caption, so the item is useful mainly as a visual record of mid-19th-century women's dress.

A single-page satirical wood engraving from Harper's Weekly, 16 April 1859, tracing changes in men's neckwear. Four caricatured male profiles in two pairs contrast the 'fast man's' large neckerchief of 1800, which wraps around the face and neck, with his much smaller neck-tie of 1859. It is of interest for the history of men's costume and for satirical commentary on fashion.

A one-page fashion article from the Ladies' Home Journal by Isabel A. Mallon, with illustrations by Ethel Rose. It describes twelve numbered styles of women's autumn bodices, noting the cloths, velvets and silks used, along with trims such as mousseline de soie, jet beads, guipure, embroidery and ribbon straps. It is useful for the look of late-1890s American women's dress.

An 1886 facsimile edition of Anton Möller's 1601 Danzig women's costume book, reproducing 20 woodcuts of Danzig women and girls (matrons, brides, widows, servants, brewer's maids, fishwives) with their original Latin and German verse captions. The editor A. Bertling adds an introduction on Danzig's trade and art around 1600, Möller's life and works, the woodcutter, and the Spanish-style dress with fur trimmings, ruffs and cloaks. It closes with a list of the drawings and printing credits. Useful for historians of dress and costume, with some mention of textile and fur use.

Two-page encyclopedia entry defining fashion as the style of dress of a brief period, and distinguishing it from costume by scale and permanency. It uses examples from Munich and Bavarian peasant dress, then outlines changes in men's and women's dress from the French Revolution through the Louis Philippe era, the crinoline and hoopskirt period, Bloomer's rational dress, the princess dress and the tailor-made gown, up to about 1920. It ends with a short bibliography of works on dress history.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, March 1844. It shows four women in mid-19th-century dress, including a woman in a green tiered silk gown with a green bonnet and a seated woman in a lavender tiered gown with a yellow scarf. The page has no text and no weaving content; it is useful as a costume reference.

A single engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, December 1845, showing three women in mid-19th-century winter outerwear in a snowy outdoor scene with bare trees. Details include a dark cape with braided trim and a ribbon-trimmed bonnet. The page has no text beyond the image, so it is useful mainly as a costume reference.

A single hand-colored engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, June 1844. It shows two women in an interior: a young woman in a flowered bonnet and green dress stands reading a book beside a flower-filled urn on a carved console table. The page carries no legible text, so the details of the costumes are known only from the image.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, September 1842. It shows four women in mid-19th-century dress, including a white striped gown with a green sash and yellow bow and a bonnet, set against a sketched garden background. The page has no text that can be read, so the plate offers visual evidence of dress styles of the early 1840s.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, April 1844, showing three women in an interior setting wearing mid-19th-century dress. One woman at left wears a pale blue silk dress with wide lace-trimmed flounces and a lace bonnet with blue flowers, and holds a fan. The page has no printed text and no weaving content.

A single fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, September 1843. It shows two women in mid-19th-century dress: one seated, in a bonnet and lace-trimmed mantle with a ruffled full skirt, holding a letter, and one standing, in a flower-trimmed bonnet and a striped silk or taffeta dress. The setting is a garden with a fence and a tree. The page has no printed text and no weaving content; it is useful as a costume reference.

A single hand-engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, July 1843. It shows a woman in a dark riding habit with top hat and veil on a prancing horse, and three women in mid-19th-century dress standing beside a tree, two in full striped skirts and bodices. The page carries no descriptive text beyond a short engraver or publisher credit.

A single fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, October 1835, captioned "Walking Dresses." It shows four figures in 1830s women's dress: two bust-length portraits of bonnet and hair styles, and two full-length figures in walking costume. Useful for research on American women's fashion and trimmings of the mid-1830s.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, captioned "Godey's Fashions for December 1880." It shows five women and a young child in garden-setting costume of the period, including a lilac dress with lace jabot and bonnet and a blue polka-dot dress. It is of interest for late nineteenth-century American women's dress and trimmings, not for weaving.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book for October 1880, showing six figures in 1880s dress, including women in brown and cream and in pink and cream outfits with feathered hats, a lace fan and rose trim, and a child. The only text is the caption 'Godey's Fashions for October 1880.' It is useful for research on late nineteenth-century American women's and children's costume.

A two-page fashion feature from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, April 1854, with engraved plates of promenade and evening costumes, a chemisette, a sleeve and a child's dress. The text describes the bonnet, guipure mantilla, taffeta and velvet dresses, trimmings and a merino child's dress with embroidery. Fabrics and trims such as blonde lace, guipure, quilling and silk fringe are named. The plates were drawn by Voigt from articles supplied by G. Brodie of New York.

A two-page fashion plate article from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February 1854, with engraved figures supplied by a New York dealer, Mr. G. Brodie. It describes a child's silk dress with velvet and black lace trim, a green velvet bonnet with ostrich feather, a cap of silk ribbon and lace, and a boy's black velvet hat. A general commentary covers current styles in bodices, sleeves, flounced skirts, plaid dress fabrics, cashmere trimmings and bonnet shapes.

A one-page article from Godey's Lady's Book (September 1836) describing women's fashion in England under Edward IV, drawing on the chroniclers Monstrelet and Paradin. It covers the replacement of gown trains with wide fur or velvet borders, tall conical headdresses with trailing veils, silk girdles with ornate clasps, and gold chains. It is illustrated with engraved figures of ladies in period dress.

A single black-and-white picture postcard showing two women in traditional dress seated in an interior room, facing each other and holding or winding a long skein of pale yarn between them. The printed caption identifies the scene as a Frisian room (Friesisches Zimmer) and gives a publisher or photographer credit. It contains no weaving drafts.

A one-page article from the Minnesota Weaver's garment series on designing sleeves for loom-shaped clothing. Rose Broughton describes simple rectangular sleeves, the use of gussets for a closer fit, extended sleeves that continue across the shoulders as a yoke, and squared sleeves that give a tailored shoulder line. Line diagrams A through G illustrate the pattern shapes.

A single hand-colored engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book showing five women and a small boy in elaborately trimmed dresses and hats of the period. The only printed text is the caption 'Godey's Fashions for August 1880.' It is useful for research on late nineteenth-century American women's and children's dress.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book for June 1880, shown in landscape orientation. It depicts five women in summer dresses and hats, including purple with white lace trim, green with black lace overlay, and pink satin with ruffled trim. Of interest for costume history and the use of lace trimming in 1880 dress.

Partial scan of Godey's Lady's Book, a Philadelphia ladies' magazine, covering the second half of Volume XI (July 1835 onward), with a volume index and the first issue's contents. It includes a hand-colored 'Philadelphia Fashions' plate, a fashion engraving of olden-time dress with an accompanying fashion article, short fiction, poetry, essays on court manners and Dutch customs, a mineralogy piece, two pieces of sheet music, and household receipts. There is no weaving content; textile interest is limited to the fashion plates and descriptions of dress.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, October 1843. It shows five figures in an outdoor setting with sketched trees and a stone pedestal, including a woman in a flowered bonnet holding a parasol. The plate has no printed text or captions, so it is useful mainly as a visual record of mid-1840s American women's dress.

A fashion column from Godey's Lady's Book (August 1860 issue, vol. 61) presenting nine engraved figures of new accessories. It describes morning, dinner and full-dress caps, a summer fichu, sleeves and undersleeves, a berthé cape, and a ribbon wristlet, with notes on the trimmings used: ribbon, lace, blonde, velvet, muslin and embroidery.

A one-page fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, December 1860, showing four engraved women's headdresses with short descriptions. The pieces include a dinner or reception headdress of ribbon and white lace, a Charlotte Corday cap of lace and ribbon, an evening headdress of green velvet with black lace rosettes and jet drops, and a fuchsia velvet band edged with black lace.