Queen of fashion : what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution /
Weber, Caroline, 1969-
Queen of fashion : what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution / Caroline Weber. - 1st Picador ed. - New York : Picador/H. Holt and Co. : [Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers], 2007, c2006. - 412 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-389) 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.
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year; A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year.
9780312427344 (pbk.) 0312427344 (pbk.)
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 --Clothing.
Fashion--History--France--18th century.
France--Court and courtiers--Clothing--History--18th century.
France--History--Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
GT865 / .W37 2007
391.00944
Queen of fashion : what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution / Caroline Weber. - 1st Picador ed. - New York : Picador/H. Holt and Co. : [Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers], 2007, c2006. - 412 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-389) 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.
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year; A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year.
9780312427344 (pbk.) 0312427344 (pbk.)
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 --Clothing.
Fashion--History--France--18th century.
France--Court and courtiers--Clothing--History--18th century.
France--History--Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
GT865 / .W37 2007
391.00944