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

By:

Weber, Caroline, 1969-

Material type: Text

TextPublication 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	SPAA Library General Collection	GT865 .W37 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	0004735

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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