Tag: The Battle of Versailles

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #31: The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History by Robin Givhan

  August 4, 2015

  Reading Challenge

  1970s, American Fashion, Fashion History, French Fashion, haute couture, nonfiction, reading challenge, ready to wear, Robin Givhan, The Battle of Versailles, women writers

  There is just something about fashion, and the culture of the 70s, and battles between the French and the Americans that I just find endlessly fascinating. I have to admit that as far as political history goes, anything that happened after the 1960s feels much to recent and much too boring. But socially and culturally,…