Fashion Plates Design Set

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The plates were patterned plates that a kid put together to form a fashionable outfit, and then colored over with paper and colored pencils. My sister had one of the original Fashion Plates, which was introduced in 1978, and although I didn't care about fashion, I loved the act of rubbing over the etched plates. Tomy made sure that many of the clothing trends of the 1970s were available, including bell-bottoms, maxi-skirts, and peasant blouses. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Traditionally they are rendered through etching, line engraving, or lithograph and then colored by hand.

Publisher Louis Antoine Godey claimed in January 1857 that his fashion plates - hand-colored by a corps of 150 women colorists - "surpass all others. It's a book in which evolution, a concept that even some adults have difficulty grasping, is presented in a way that's easy for children to understand and appreciate.Le Monument de Costume" of Freudenberg and Moreau le Jeune, published in Paris between 1775 and 1783, consisted of costume plates. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Tomy revived the concept as a toy marketed simply as Fashion Plates. The basic set shipped with 15 plastic plates comprised of various outlined shapes of wardrobe pieces: shirts, pants, skirts, and so on. Place them into the drawing tablet and use the special rubbing crayon to transfer your design to paper.

Things like Cabbage Patch Kids have been around so long, they no longer mean anything special; they've become nothing more nor less than a doll. The ability to mix and match plates offered children a wide range of outfit combinations to choose from as their portfolio took shape. Mattel had a version of the fashion plates for Barbie where you would use pre-cut Barbie dresses which you would color in with markers.Godey also made sure his readers were aware of the considerable cost of his fashion plates, and indeed, some readers removed them from the magazine and displayed them as art. lel511 Perfect gift Perfect gift for a budding designer, great to have all the bits together in the carry case to avoid getting lost. The set I bought had a few designs left inside from the previous owner, a Miss Kristin Meier, and they really took me back to my childhood! We make a point of using nothing but the very best materials, as well as cutting edge production processes and strict quality control!

We are bombarded with a plethora of articles, Facebook posts, and Twitter feeds that bring us back to our past. And, because of this (largely), it's becoming more and more difficult for the layman to keep up with even the basics of contemporary science. The Tomy brand of Fashion Plates first came out in the 1970's and were manufactured into the 1990's and beyond.The foundation is designed to financially assist families wishing to vacation on an Autism on the Seas' staff- supported cruise. Sometimes it was so we could fit in with our friends, and other times the toys were just the coolest. You would place them on the left side, put down a piece of paper, and then use a colored pencil (or crayon) to rub across the plates to make a final design of the look.