Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II.(Book review)

The Historian | September 22, 2007| | Copyright

Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II. By Philip Mansel. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 237. $35.00.)

In this engaging enquiry, the author examines how rulers have used clothing to inspire respect, promote nationalism, and command obedience. Louis XIV's embrace of the multicolored, bejeweled habit habille (dressy clothing) set the style for Europe's old regime. But if the habit habille radiated courtly opulence, King Charles XII of Sweden's simple, blue military coat signaled for eighteenth-century Europe ...

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