TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weber,Caroline
TI  - Queen of fashion: what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution 
SN  - 9780312427344 (pbk.)
AV  - GT865 .W37 2007
U1  - 391.00944 22
PY  - 2007///, c2006
CY  - New York
PB  - Picador/H. Holt and Co., [Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers]
KW  - Marie Antoinette,
KW  - Fashion
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Court and courtiers
KW  - Clothing
KW  - Louis XVI, 1774-1793
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -