Fashion in the French Revolution

by Aileen Ribeiro (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1988

  $36.54

  Aileen Ribeiro's book explores the changes in dress during the French Revolution and links them with the rapidly shifting political climate. At a time of immense and violent change, clothing could sometimes be used to demonstrate either conformity or reaction to the prevailing situation. The author looks at the elaborate dress of French society and the court in the 1780s and the way in which plain clothing became identified with democracy . The part played in the Revolution by the sans-culottes with their bonnet rouge and pantalon , is explored, together with the role of militant women and the emergence of feminism. Paintings, engravings and fashion plates provide visual evidence of the clothing of the period. The author has also written Dress and Morality .