Aileen Ribeiro Books
The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France, 1750-1820
Dress is the most fleeting of the arts, subject to the arbitrary dictates of fashion. It is also, however, the art that relates most closely to our lives, both as a reflection of our self-image and...
Read MoreIngres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres s Images of Women
"For more than half of the nineteenth century, French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) depicted the rapidly changing appearance of the fashionable woman with meticulous attention to...
Read MoreDress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715-1789
"In this book, Aileen Ribeiro surveys the clothing worn by the middle and upper classes throughout Europe in the eighteenth century and discusses what this meant in terms of social definition and i...
Read More