Queen of fashion : what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution

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Queen of fashion : what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution

Title remainder

what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution

Statement of responsibility

Caroline Weber

Creator

• trueWeber, Caroline, 1969-

Subject

• trueFashion -- France -- History -- 18th century
• France -- Court and courtiers | Clothing | History -- 18th century
• trueFrance -- Court and courtiers | History -- 18th century
• trueFrance -- History -- 18th century
• trueClothing -- France -- History -- 18th century
• trueFrance -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
• Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 -- Clothing
• trueFrance -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793

Language

eng

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. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress," covering each phase of her tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl struggling to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour. As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt provocative, "unqueenly" outfits that, ironically, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her. The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion--the vehicle she used to secure her triumphs--was also her undoing.--From publisher description

Award

New York Times Notable Book, 2006

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

391.00944

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

GT865

LC item number

.W37 2006

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult