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

256 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Throughout history rulers have used clothes as a form of legitimization 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....

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