Is there such a place? Wow, so would I!!
Kathleen
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From: "Bjarne og Leif Drews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] What Q. Marie A. wore to the Revolution
Yes
:-)
I love this book, and i think the author made a terrific job.
Also a danish princess who was going to make peace between Sweden and
Denmark had a very expensive trouseau. Her things were send by more than
50 carriages of clothing, furniture and other things, she could not live
without, including her weddingdress. The new about this weddingdress was
that it actually was not made in Paris as thoaght, but was made by a
danish taylor. They recently found the bill.
One of my theories about how bad it went, is that if she had not excluded
all the important nobility families from her own petite court at Trianon,
it would not have went as badly as it did. She had build up an image,
being the queen of fashion, also adored and looked up to by all the
nobility families, when she turned her back to them, they started to hate
her. That was a big mistake..........
And it is true that she tryed to be a good girl and not spend so much
money on fashion, but she forgot all her duties as a queen, abandoned the
whole machinery, with no thoaghts about how dangerous this was.
I would have given my right arm, to see the shop in Paris with Rose
Bertins dresses..............................
Bjarne
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From: "LLOYD MITCHELL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "H-Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 2:45 PM
Subject: [h-cost] What Q. Marie A. wore to the Revolution
I have been reading "What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution" and
have been captivated by the author's thesis re the effects of
'fashion/anti fashion' had in many aspects of 18th Century France. "Buy
French" is an early theme and her arrival as the Dauphine-ellect plays out
much as featured in the most recent film...except, it seems that the truth
of the matter is that Mother Maria Teresa sent her to France complete with
an up to date trouseau of the latest French fashions that were confiscated
by the new court.
We remember that MA was criticized for her wonton extravigant use of the
treasury for her own adornment. Most of her gowns could only be worn
once or twice by court tradition and edicts. The silk trade dominated
the core of the rag trade. When she changed the styles to a more
countrified look, she was blamed again for causing a depression in the
fashion related trades. She really rocks the boat when she begins to have
her wardrobe repaired and re-embellished instead of buying new!
Lots of descriptions of clothing and hairstyles and details of her
connections with Bertin and the royal hairdresser. Illustrations are few
but taken from portraiture and cartoons; the written word carries the
day.
I am fascinated with this new conception of a "Petticoat Rebellion"
Anyone on the list who might have cracked this book?
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