A passion for fashion : 300 years of style at Blenheim Palace /

A Passion for Fashion provides an amusing look at some of the clothes, underclothes, shoes and accessories worn by many of the more colourful characters in Blenheim Palace's 300-year history, as well as a cautionary look at the role that arsenic, lead, mercury and mouse traps played in the fash...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keaney, Antonia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Unicorn, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Putting on a show at Blenheim Palace
  • Introduction
  • Pink for a boy: Churchill the Victorian child
  • Enough lice to people a parish
  • Honi soit qui mal y pense
  • Her eyebrows from a mouse's hide
  • Hats remarkable large
  • Liveries and lace
  • I like to look tidy and neat
  • Fashion to die for
  • The Victorian Royal House party
  • Shoes: an evolution
  • Lady Diana: what's in a name?
  • Christian Dior: quite a revolution
  • Here comes the (Blenheim) bride.