Crinoline Petticoats, Then and Now
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Crinoline traces its origins back to a fabric invented in the 1830s. This fabric was used to make stiff petticoats which would add fullness to dress skirts. Over the years, owing to external pressures of changing trends and opinions, crinoline petticoats have evolved drastically. Today’s crinoline is an underskirt of still, flounced fabric, sometimes ruffled, [...]