Augustin Challamel, Frances Cashel Hoey, The history of fashion in France (Repost)
Augustin Challamel, Frances Cashel Hoey, The history of fashion in France
ISBN: 0223548796 | edition 1882 | PDF | 293 pages | 11 mb
ISBN: 0223548796 | edition 1882 | PDF | 293 pages | 11 mb
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.