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Not in other words just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.

Today we're venturing deep into the 18th century, and who else could we start with?

In 1770, at the age of 14, the Viennese Archduxie Maria Antonia arrived in France to marry the heir to the French throne, Louis Auguste, later

Louis XVI. Fashion had long been its own currency at the French court of Versailles,

and with the royal match, the young woman, now called by a French

version of her name, Marie Antoinette, found that her body, political and intimate, had become

public property. The young Dauphine, and from 1774 Queen, rebelled against the rigid

protocols of the court, building her own visual identity by adopting typical male

riding attire to participate in the royal hunt and rejecting the traditional robe of la Francés

for a star later known as the chumise at a rene. She was a royal wife who looked like a royal

mistress. Her attire came at an incredible cost, and eventually her adoring public would come to turn on her for the very excesses they had once exhorted.

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