History of French Fashion - eBooks On CD

Fashion is the expositor, from the standpoint of costume, of our habits and our social relations; in a word, of everything appertaining to the charm of life.
Therefore to write the history of female fashion in France is a more serious task than it might seem to be at the first glance.

The levity of the subject is mastered by its moral interest. Montesquieu remarks, in his "Lettres Persanes," "A certain lady takes it into her head that she must appear at an assembly in a particular costume; from that moment fifty artisans have to go without sleep, or leisure either to eat or drink. She commands, and is obeyed more promptly than a Shah of Persia, because self- interest is the mightiest ruler upon the earth."

Far from serving only as a source of frivolous talk, even when it is specially concerned with our dress and ornamentation, the subject of fashion, it has been wisely observed, has its value as a moral sign-post, and supplies the historian, the philosopher, and the novelist with a guide to the prevailing ideas of the time.

PLUS 3 Bonus Books

1.  Dame Fashion: Paris London 1786-1912, by Julius M Price, written in 1913, 500 pages in length with 155 illustrations.

2.  Fashion is Spinach by Elizabeth Hawes a well known American clothes designer, written in 1938 has over 300 pages.

3. The Toilette of Health, Beauty and Fashion written in 1832 is over 200 pages in length with many recipes and instructions on balms, oils, face paints etc.

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