No More Corsets
Rosemary Hill: Dressing the Revolution, 6 March 2025
Liberty, Equality, Fashion: The Women who Styled the French Revolution
by Anne Higonnet.
Norton, 286 pp., £25, April 2024,978 0 393 86795 4 Show More
by Anne Higonnet.
Norton, 286 pp., £25, April 2024,
“... prescribed materials. Shopping with her aunt for a trousseau, Joséphine would not have been shown Lyon silk or the elaborate embroidered fabrics which, with their gold and silver thread, were forbidden to a mere vicomtesse under such a flurry of legislation that it seems it was at first difficult to enforce. The essential components of dress ... ”