Biedrońska-Słotowa, Beata : Crossroads of costume and textiles in Poland: papers from the International Conference of the ICOM Costume Committee at the National Museum in Cracow, September 28 - October 4, 2003 (Krakau, 2005)

Images of fashion: an image of France in the late seventeenth century

ąuest for novelty in personal adornment and refinement of mannerism invented
and mandated by the crown: there was an intent to influence fashion to the French
style. Additionally, when viewed as a whole, the images in this particular folio illus-
trate a broad cross-section of late seventeenth-century French society supporting
Louis XIV's overall idyllic vision of a prosperous, powerful, and, therefore, influential
France.

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