Dressing tables make a comeback as TikTokers invite viewers to get ready with them
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Influencer Eloise Dufka filming herself as she does her make-up at her vanity at home in New York on July 27.
PHOTO: CLARK HODGIN/NYTIMES
Rukmini Callimachi
Nearly three centuries ago, the business of governing the world ran past a woman’s dressing table.
It was the year 1748, and Europe had just emerged from a devastating continental war. Empires were being divided, borders redrawn. That December, when the grounds at Versailles were dark and dreary, an extraordinary line had formed inside the palace.