Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume From Louis XIV to Elizabeth II by Philip Mansel

Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume From Louis XIV to Elizabeth II

Philip Mansel

264 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Throughout history rulers have used dress as a form of legitimisation and propaganda. While palaces, pictures and jewels might reflect the choice of a monarch's predecessors or advisers, clothes reflected the preferences of the monarch himself. Be...

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