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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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.