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Dressed to Rule:
By Philip Mansel Yale University press
Price £19.99 US$32 Post-free to subscribers
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From the cover ‘Throughout history rulers have used dress as a form of legitimisation and propoganda. While palaces, pictures and jewels might reflect the choice of a monarch’s predecessors or advisers, clothes reflected the preferences of the monarch himself. Being both personal and visible, the right costume at the right time could transform and define a monarch’s reputation. Many royal leaders have used dress as a weapon, from Louis XIV to Catherine the Great and Napoleon I to Pricess Diana.’ Of particular interest to Cornucopia readers: the European fashion for Ottoman dress, kaftan diplomacy and the development of unifoms. Philip Mansel is editor of The Court Historian and author of Constantinople: City of the World’s Desire and Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean www.philipmansel.com for reviews in other publications.
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