Crinoline
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A crinoline is a stiff or structured petticoat designed to hold out a skirt, popular at various times since the mid-19th century. Originally, crinoline described a stiff fabric made of horsehair and c
Princess Dagmar of Denmark wearing a crinoline in the 1860s
Cage crinoline underskirt, 1860s, ModeMuseum, Antwerp
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Horsehair crinoline, 1840s (MET)
Hoop skirt
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A hoop skirt is a type of structured undergarment, worn underneath a skirt or dress to create a wider and fuller shape, popular during the late 19th-century. The garments allowed women to create the s
Crinoline
…the 21st century. By the 1850s the term crinoline was more usually applied to the fashionable silhouette provided by horsehair petticoats, and to the hoop skirts that replaced them in the mid-1850s. In form and function these hoop skirts were similar to the 16th- and 17th-century farthingale and to 18th-century…
Top: Minoan statuette, 1600 BCE. Verdugada, c. 1470s Bottom: Farthingale, c. 1600. Hoop or pannier, 1750–80.
Cage crinoline with steel hoops, 1865. LACMA M.2007.211.380
Margaret Concha, Hoop Skirt, c. 1937
Infanta Margarita Teresa Wearing a Farthingale