- Crinoline - Wikipedia
Originally, crinoline described a stiff fabric made of horsehair (" crin ") and cotton or linen which was used to make underskirts and as a dress lining The term crin or crinoline continues to be applied to a nylon stiffening tape used for interfacing and lining hemlines in the 21st century
- Crinoline, The Fatal Victorian Fashion Trend That Killed Thousands
In the mid-19th century, Victorian women started to wear wide, hooped skirts called crinolines An alternative to wearing multiple, stuffy layers, these skirts were structured petticoats covered with fabric
- The crinoline fashion trend that killed thousands of women, 1855-1870
The crinoline appeared on the fashion scene in the mid-1800s and took its name from the French word crin (“horsehair”), a stiff material made using horsehair — and “linen ” A crinoline (hoop) is defined as a framework consisting of round oval circles (shaped like a hoop) of whalebone, wire, or cane used to extend the skirt
- Crinolines Fashion History
Crinolines, a hallmark of 19th-century fashion, dramatically shaped women's silhouettes and reflected the era's social and cultural dynamics
- Crinoline | Victorian Era, Hoop Skirts, Petticoats | Britannica
Crinoline, originally, a petticoat made of horsehair fabric, a popular fashion in the late 1840s that took its name from the French word crin (“horsehair”)
- cage crinoline - Fashion History Timeline
One of the first mass-produced and most widely adopted fashions, the cage crinoline was worn at all levels of society Usually worn with corsets, the 19th-century fashion for crinolines emphasized tiny waists as the beauty ideal
- Crinoline Definition. Design and how to make one? - Victorian Era
A crinoline is a structured hoop petticoat specially designed to hold out the skirt of a woman It gained popularity since the middle of the nineteenth century even though it was developed around the sixteenth century
- The History of Crinoline - the Victorian fashion garment that kept the . . .
One of the fashion trends of the 19th century Victorian Era that stirred lady fashionistas was the so-called “Crinolinemania,” a craze that referred to the fashion obsession with the crinoline, a stiffened underskirt made using horsehair and linen or cotton, invented in the early 1840s
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