t what they were told to wear and conform with. These new ideas of self-expression through clothes are often called a relation between “Politics and Fashion” (Ribeiro, 45). Fashions only dreamed about before by such fashion radicals as Marie Antoinette became real. Women led to a great portion of this clothing revolution and “keeping up with fashion was influencing many women” (Ewing, 119). Everyone wanted to be part of this change in image, and everyone wanted to put in their own two cents on how they thought it should be. Such ideas and contributions gave the new styles a large array and made everything exotic and new. Ideas of self-expression through the French Revolution had a giant, direct affect on the emerging, controversial fashions of the time.When you add it all up you can see that ideas of freedom that sparked and fed the fires of revolution led to new openings in fashion and broke down the barriers and allowed ideas of equality, also from the revolution, to take away all limits on the old class differences in fashion. Most of all, the equality allowed self-expression to set in and mold the old styles into new ones more befitting of the people who wore them, and allowed the people to express themselves, being no longer limited by the boundaries of class. Ideas of freedom, equality, and self-expression from the French Revolution caused another revolution on its own, a revolution of image and style never before seen. The affects of the revolution even outlived the revolution itself, and were some of the few changes in France that actually remained the same, while most of the changes from it retrograded. The Revolution of fashion in the decade between 1789 and 1799 would not have occurred without the French Revolution, and it changed styles in the world forever....
