We start with the French Kings’ Borbon Line…

.. These are rulers with “royal blood” carried from generation to generation.  They would rule France until the French Revolution when France was restructured into Republic and Empire.

They were all almost obsessed with fashion as a statement of power, rank, & nobility, & expected their queens, children, & all the nobles of the country to follow suit (literally.. “suit”.. “robe”… etc.)

(painting: The Borbon family tree)