num_pages: 257
description: Dress is the most fleeting of the arts subject to the arbitrary dictates of fashion. It is also however the art that relates most closely to our lives both as reflection of our self-image and in the words of Louis XIV as the mirror of history. This text examines English and French fashion from 1750 to 1820 by studying the art of the period and it shows how changes in dress reflected social political and cultural developments in the two countries.
language: English
title: The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France 1750 to 1820
publisher: Yale University Press