Magazine of Female Fashions of London & Paris explained

The Magazine of Female Fashions of London & Paris was a monthly illustrated fashion magazine published under that title from 1798 until 1806, and then continued until 1809 under the title Record of Fashion and Court Elegance.^[1] Initially printed for Richard Phillips in London, from 1807 to 1809 it was published by Orme, Harris and Walker, and was compiled under the direction of Mrs Fiske.^[1] It was unusual among women's magazines of the time in being devoted entirely to fashion.^[2] It was advertised in 1799 as "a Monthly Work, price 1s. 6d. each Number Containing three or four beautifully coloured Plates, representing the actually prevailing Female Fashions of London and Paris, for the use of Milliners, &c."^[3]

Notes and References

1. Alison Adburgham, Women in Print: Writing Women and Women's Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria (Faber & Faber, 2012).
2. Onur Inal, "Women's Fashions in Transition: Ottoman Borderlands and the Anglo-Ottoman Exchange of Costumes" in From Traditional Attire to Modern Dress, edited by Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), p. 155.
3. "New and interesting Works publishing by R. Phillips", appended to August von Kotzebue, Family Distress; Or, Self Immolation: A Play, in Three Acts (R. Phillips, 1799). Online.