Of all the things to re-enter the fashion chat for spring, an 18th-century accoutrement that has zero real-world practicality was probably not on anyone’s bingo card. Nevertheless, panniers ...

Crinoline, side-hoop, pannier or farthingale. Whatever name you know this skirt-volumizing apparatus by, the style that has returned leaves the front and back of the silhouette relatively flat ...

The day I was supposed to wear the jumpsuit, I had to slip into the pannier, a design that originated in the 18th century, which resembled the rib cage of a prehistoric mammal, separately. ( ...

Panniers (or side hoops ... They were all the rage around Marie Antoinette’s era, as well as earlier in the 18th century. A very wealthy lady would be one too wide to walk through her own ...

And this was all part of the 18th century guild system. [Narrator] Next, the silhouette garment. The silhouette of her skirt is not supported by the panniers that we spoke about earlier.