Queen of fashion : what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution
Summary
Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. Here, 18th-century specialist Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminat... Full description
- Pandora's box
- Stripped
- Corseted
- Ride like a man
- The pouf ascendant
- The simple life
- Galled
- Revolutionary redress
- True colors
- Black
- White
- Afterward: fashion victim.