ABSTRACT This study examines the presentation of evening dress within the first 50 issues of The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, from January 1809 to February 1813. Within this early nineteenth-century British magazine, published in London by Rudolph Ackermann, several visuals and voices emerge as its primary fashion communicators. Through the written observations of two author-characters, as well as elegant hand-colored fashion plates and tactile fabric swatches of domestic manufacture, The Repository of Arts provided a dynamic array of sartorial instructions for its readers to consider. This study illuminates the publication’s explanation of the temporal boundaries of evening dress and related dress categories, its discussion of good taste and variety in fashion, and its commentary on visual impact, light reflectivity, and bodily exposure, providing new insights into the significance of evening dress at the start of the nineteenth century.

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与阿克曼共度的夜晚：艺术宝库中的晚礼服，1809-1813

摘要 本研究考察了 1809 年 1 月至 1813 年 2 月出版的《艺术、文学、商业、制造、时尚和政治知识库》前 50 期中晚礼服的介绍。在这本 19 世纪早期的英国杂志中，在伦敦出版由鲁道夫·阿克曼 (Rudolph Ackermann) 设计，几种视觉效果和声音成为其主要的时尚传播者。通过两位作者角色的书面观察，以及优雅的手绘时装板和国内制造的触觉织物样本，艺术宝库为读者提供了一系列动态的着装说明。这项研究阐明了该出版物对晚礼服和相关服装类别的时间界限的解释，对时尚品味和多样性的讨论，以及对视觉冲击的评论，