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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Picador/H. Holt and Co. : [Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers], 2007, c2006.Edition: 1st Picador edDescription: 412 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780312427344 (pbk.)
  • 0312427344 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 391.00944 22
LOC classification:
  • GT865 .W37 2007
Contents:
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.
Awards:
  • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year; A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year.
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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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.

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