Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

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Later the things she was divested of were taken home as trophies by the ladies that attended her stripping and redressing as a Frenchwoman, and she would see them at court brazingly wearing those things they stripped her of. Rose whose millinery bills will be eye watering figures and whose shop is patronised by all the frivolous women who want to look and dress like the Dauphine. Silly women make their way to her in droves but like to secure their goods with a proper semblance of humility from the little milliner, when she is sometimes impetuous and spirited, just because she is a drab with gifted fingers and an eye for elaborate frippery does not mean she should not know her place! In any case, the dress of court she now refused to wear entirely striding through Versailles in her muslims or cross dressing in her riding pants causing scandal wherever she went. About her spending she could not be persuaded but her brother did successful harangue her husband a talk that was so scorching and so rough perhaps, that after his departure, the' laxical bridegroom made it atop his bride, and a year later she conceived a child'. The immensity of her power, is something to consider, when you think of of the consequence for the Dauphine, Rose in her flounces with her pretty face, a good bosom, is though constantly reminded to know her place.

I feel that a lot of the book was a stretch--the brand-new Dauphine notices a tapestry of Jason and Medea, calls it a "bad omen" for a wedding, and we assume that it plants in her mind the idea to manipulate fashion for power? Yeah, probably not. It's very interesting. If you have any interest in Marie Antoinette or the time period, you should read this. Yes, there are some pictures in there, but they're there to aid you in a visual. I adore the pictures! I think she should have included more. Oh well. She takes her place in this wonderland of pouf creation and extravagance that will bring down the Austrian daughter of the Caesar's. Amidst all the books on Marie Antoinette that I've acquired over the years (for reasons which are both curious and somewhat unknown to me!), Caroline Weber's "Queen of Fashion" has figured high on my list.How far the barb had entered peoples hearts showed in the ruthless dispatch of this effete class , it became know as the Terror, days of terrible bloodshed. The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations this year will see her fashion choices take centre stage.

The monarch has see-through “Birdcage” brollies made by the Fulton group to match each outfit in case of wet weather, with the edging and handle corresponding to the exact shade she is wearing. When they took Mops from her the one attachment of her grieving heart, she had only them to look too for affection, and was reminded when she burst into tears and flung herself into the arms of one of them , that there would be no more display of tears. She was only a girl, no matter how you look at it, and what she was freighted to carry.

This is the book that spurred me on to reading biographies again. The premise for this book is that Maria Antoinette did not have a lot of power--certainly not the kind-of power she might have expected to have given her mother. She was also limited in the ways she could express herself. So, Marie Antoinette turned to fashion as a way to express her views and to influence her husband. Perhaps says the author of this book this was ‘ in retaliation for those scenes of appalling aristocratic coldheartedness that the insurgents vowed to make the white haired white skinned, well dressed princess suffer- Lamballe through her brutal death and ritual coiffing , and the Queen through a forced encounter with her friends savagely styled head..’ The national Platinum Jubilee celebrations set for June offer the perfect opportunity for the nation’s longest-reigning monarch to debut platinum-influenced pieces or jewellery, channelling the historic occasion through her fashion.

She was not to be subjected to any ugly people and so only beautiful faces were sent out to greet her. Of course they could have left her her little dog. Her attachments would be ruthlessly pruned and chosen right down to her little dog , the consolation of her journey from her family, forever as it happened.The Queen always had an innate understanding of how her wardrobe could add visual interest to her appearances. She knew this was helpful on the ground, in making herself a focal point by which onlookers straining to catch a glimpse could instantly make sense of a crowded scene. And she knew, also, that it helped make a great photograph. There is a lovely playfulness to this outfit, designed by Ian Thomas for a visit to Blois in France in 1992. The unstructured coat is unusually soft in silhouette, while the pink flowers glimpsed on the dress seem to wink to the flowers on the hat.