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Weber's queen is sublime, human, and surprising: a sometimes courageous monarch unwilling to allow others to determine her destiny. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt 'unqueenly' outfits (the provocative chemise) that, surprisingly, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her. in Revolutionary France (2003) Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to. As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies. Caroline Weber is a biographer, historian, and professor of French and. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's 'Revolution in Dress,' covering each phase of the queen's tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl, struggling to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour (twelve-foot-wide hoopskirts, whalebone corsets that crushed her organs). In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes.

In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France

Queen of Fashion by Caroline Weber