Have had some time online today which is unusual, so checked out a few websites that are new to me ( Read more... )

I know a lot of people on my friends list are a great fan of Marie Antoinette and costumes so I thought this might be of interest to some of you. I recently read Caroline Weber`s `Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution` and can strongly recommend it to anyone remotely curious about MA or fashion of that era. This book was ( Read more... )

"There is no difficulty in telling fashionable clothes from dowdy ones even when dealing with modes that have long since passed out of existence" Doris Langley Moore, creator of the Museum of Costume, Bath; 1963 ( Read more... )