laurel [the suspected bibliophile]’s Reviews > Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History > Status Update

I'm not really liking how incredibly dismissive he is of the revolution in women's clothing in the aftermath of the French revolution. Like, truly radical and liberating.

He says that "the unadorned styles of fashionable neoclassical women's clothing were rooted in fantasy and whimsy." They were NOT. See Anne Higonnet's Liberty Equality Fashion.