Marie Antoinette Costume

Marie Antoinette Costume

The Marie Antoinette Costume resembles the full length and gorgeous dresses worn by Marie Antoinette in the 18th century.

One of the most popular of Marie Antoinette costumes is her white ball dress. Marie Antoinette and the queen of France would wear these dresses when attending dances known as a ball in those days. Looking at these full length dresses conjures up ball room dances as seen in old movies about that period of times.

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You will show off you grace and royalty while you drench yourself in this Marie Antoinette white brocade gown. The ankle-length Marie Antoinette Costume is perfect for Mardi Gras celebrations and Halloween.

Marie Antoinette costume is great for French Revolution theme parties during Mardi Gras celebrations. Marie Antoinette costumes, wigs, and costume accessories for celebrating the Bastille Day is now in style. A celebrated beauty, Marie Antoinette is a classic character and costume favorite.

Marie Antoinette was selfishness and a lavish spending on her accessories and wardrobes. The standard of living in Versailles among the Royals was extremely opulent. Now the same palace has been turned into a museum and is a very popular tourist attraction.

As kingdoms fell, Marie Antoinette and her ornate dress became a major part of the French Revolutions clothing and fashion. Admired and despised, the aloof French Queen became a historical figure while being dressed during this time.

Marie Antoinette is well known for her heartless ‘Let them eat cake’ remark. The fabled comment has not been received well and was more of a social observance than a slur.

European rulers of the day were often criticised for being disconnected to the suffering of the people. Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen was married to Louis XVI of France at age 14. As Louis XVI’s wife and mother of “lost dauphin” Louis XVII, she was guillotined at the height of the French Revolution in 1793 and subsequently interred with her husband in the royal crypt at the Saint Denis Basilica in Paris. Marie Antoinette costumes and wigs are a favorite for French revolutionaries and Bastille Day celebrations.

A headless Marie Antoinette is obviously a Marie Antoinette costume option.  This type of costume is very spooky and will definitely have people take a double take.  The headless Marie Antoinette costume includes ventilation holes that allow you to breathe air through the chest or armpit section of the costume. It also tend to give Ms. Antoinette a larger than life appearance.

Marie Antoinette is a personality that became famous for being a selfishly ignorant royal person. It is said that she had no regard for the hardship of her people. Most of what people know about her is negative. Halloween is not about positives anyway; so when you dress up as witches, vampires, ghosts then why not as Marie Antoinette? She was at least a human.

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