Queen of fashion : what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution / Caroline Weber

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : H. Holt , c2006Description: 412 p. : illus. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780805079494
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 92 MAR 
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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, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked.
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Libro - Monografía Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles 92 MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 045939

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pandora's box -- Stripped -- Corseted -- Ride like a man -- The pouf ascendant -- The simple life -- Galled -- Revolutionary redress -- True colors -- Black -- White -- Afterword: fashion victim.

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, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked.

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