How do you design a more egalitarian society through the clothing choices of men and women? Turns out, the social cues of clothing (and how well you can actually move in those clothes) were a major concern for some French revolutionaries. Fellow Northwestern PhD student Marissa Croft studies this intersection of costuming and politics.
Suggested Reading:
The Marie Antoinette Dress that Ignited the Slave Trade: https://www.racked.com/2018/1/10/16854076/marie-antoinette-dress-slave-trade-chemise-a-la-reine (General Interest)
Politics & Costuming article: Naomi Lubrich. “The Little White Dress: Politics and Polyvalence in Revolutionary France.” Fashion Theory, vol. 20, no. 3, May 2016, pp. 273–96. Taylor and Francis+NEJM, doi:10.1080/1362704X.2015.1082275.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1362704X.2015.1082275?journalCode=rfft20
Recycled Movie Costumes Blog: http://www.recycledmoviecostumes.com/
A language of the Flowers dictionary: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31591
The anti-revolution parrot article: http://www.archivespasdecalais.fr/Activites-culturelles/Un-document-a-l-honneur/Un-perroquet-devant-la-justice-revolutionnaire
Follow Marissa Croft: @mgcroft
Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/
Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro
Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing
