“Fashionable dress in the 19th century went through ... At some point in the 1860s, the trend for crinolines began to move more towards an oval design that gave the wearer a flat front but ...

Six other DMU designs were also on show, alongside the likes of Vivienne Westwood ‘mini crinis’, an 1860s crinoline dress and bodice, and costumes from Anna Karenina, starring Keira Knightley, made by ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, more middle-class women started wearing the crinoline as caged hoop skirts ... Despite critiques by dress reformers who saw it as another tool to oppress women’s mobility ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, more middle-class women started wearing the crinoline as caged hoop skirts ... Despite critiques by dress reformers, who saw it as another tool to oppress women’s ...

Field, who provided narration for the project, told us about her three favorite gowns. “This is a crinoline, or a large dome-skirted dress, that was worn by Helen Bancroft Hay, of Portland. The ...

When asked if the dress poses any danger ... above a metal hoop crinoline form. “Crinoline fires” killed 3,000 women between the late 1850s and late 1860s in England. Women would lose sense ...

A circa 1860s lithograph titled "Fire: The horrors of crinoline & the destruction of ... A glass of water, a beautiful dress, or a brightly colored piece of wallpaper could all spell your doom.

Corsets and crinolines were subjects of public debate in Civil War America. Feminists, dress reformers, and physicians all criticized both the health hazards and the physical restraints of ...