French Revolutionary Fashion (We're Bringing Cravats Back!)

Welcome back! Bonnie and Laura are discussing the fashion of revolutionary France and exploring some popular trends of the time! Ashton joins us for a fun discussion about cravats and corsetry. What piece of historical fashion would you bring back into style? Sources for this episode: “Gown.” V&A Search the Collections. Accessed April 22, 2020. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O110099/gown-unknown/. Hunt, Alan. Governance of the Consuming Passions. New York City, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Laver, James. Taste and Fashion from the French Revolution Until Today. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. Levy, Darline Gay, Harriet Branson Applewhite, and Mary Durham. Johnson. Women in Revolutionary Paris: 1789-1795: Selected Documents. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979. Maxwell, Alexander. Patriots against Fashion: Clothing and Nationalism in Europes Age of Revolutions. New York City, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Ribeiro, Aileen. Fashion in the French Revolution. New York City, NY: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1988. “The Statue of Freedom.” Architect of the Capitol. Accessed April 22, 2020. https://www.aoc.gov/art/other-statues/statue-freedom