Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
Book Review: queen of fashion
Summary: 4 Stars
I haven't got a chance to read the entire book yet but it is very good and interesting. It is especially useful if you are a Marie Antoinette fanatic or history buff. This was a package that got lost in shipping and It only took one day to get a replacement one. I was surprised at how fast the costumer service was and very pleased.Book Review: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a well-researched, engaging, and poignant read. When is Weber's next book coming out?! I'll purchase for sure.Book Review: fabulous!
Summary: 5 Stars
If Fashion is a turn on this book is for you. The author does an excellent job blending history and fashion into page turner of a story. It is academic, well researched, and free of anything that makes typical historical reading boring. I would recommend this to anyone interested in period fashion history, art history, or Marie Antoinette's fabulous life style.Book Review: Insightful look at the politics of Excess
Summary: 4 Stars
Queen Marie-Antoinette of France's love of fashion was one of her fatal flaws. This love of fashion and dress-up (or down in her case) has often been commented on in biographies of the Queen. However, this is the first book to chart the reasons behind her apparent fashion madness and how while her enemies derided her for the vast amounts she spent on her wardrobe they were usually the first to copy what she wore.
This book concentrates on what Marie-Antoinette wore from the time she left Austria till her death at the guillotine. It has a picture section in the middle that shows some of the outfits talked about in the text - but the images of Marie- Antoinette could easily fill another book as subject to itself (one which I'm surprised hasn't been tackled in English before this).
If you have an interest in 18th century French costume this is a book worth picking up for a read as it charts the costume excesses of the last quarter of the 18th century in good detail. It's also a minor biography of the Queen in itself. While this book fills out the background to the downfall of the Queen its not a real substitute for a well written formal biography. The real moral of this book is that a great fashion sense is no real substitute for genuine Power
Book Review: Wonderfully fresh
Summary: 5 Stars
This enlightening book is a wonderfully fresh look at the life of Marie Antoinette. Caroline Weber with her impeccable attention to the finest detail is able to offer us a different angle , how Marie Antoinettes choices in fashion made an impact on her life and how those choices often had a direct link to the events which were unfolding .
If you are looking for a book which details the life of Marie Antoinette, I would still recommend Lady Antonia Frasers ' The Journey' , but if you have read ' The Journey ' and want a book , equally as good, but with a different spin and plenty of research I would heartily recommend this fabulous book.