Aileen Ribeiro is professor of the history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
'Aileen Ribeiro's study of 18th-century fashion is an excellent account of what it was like to dress before the age of shame, when, as Baudelaire said, women decorated themselves in order to eradicate the traces of original sin.' Anita Brookner, The Sunday Times 'This is an important book, certainly the most scholarly account of eighteenth-century dress ever to have been published.' Celina Fox, Times Literary Supplement '... a pioneering work in analyzing the wider range of dress in the study of the past.' Paul J. Korshin, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 'The author's affection for and understanding of the eighteenth century illuminates this challenging and important book. She argues persuasively for a reassessment of eighteenth-century dress in the widest of contexts.' Valerie Cumming, Costume
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