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,
“... or killed because of what they do or do not wear, clothes may be a matter of life or death. Anne Higonnet’s new book is somewhat belied by its subtitle, which plays to the idea of fashion as accessory to the mainstream of history. ‘Styled’ suggests that her subjects hovered on the edge of the revolution, adding a cockade here and ... ”