They say beauty is pain, but for some Victorian women, beauty was death. During the mid-19th century, many fashionable women ...

The Crinoline. A steel cage crinoline, circa 1860. Wikimedia Commons. The crinoline (its name was a combination of “crin,” the name for a stiff horsehair fabric, and “linen ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, more middle-class women started wearing the crinoline as caged hoop skirts started being mass-produced. Soon, “ Crinolinemania ” swept the fashion world. advertisement ...

“By the 1860s in the South, a crinoline was 200 inches in diameter. That was fancy–for a ball,” Chemler, a Naperville resident, said. “In the North, it would have been only about 120 ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, more middle-class women started wearing the crinoline as caged hoop skirts started being mass-produced. Soon, “ Crinolinemania ” swept the fashion world.

For nearly a decade from the 1850s to 1860s, around 3,000 women died in crinoline fires in England. Should they knock over a candle without their knowledge and were unable to get out of the ...

“A really fluffed-out, layered hoop skirt could use 180 feet of wire,” Alfred writes–so making flat wire was big business from the mid 1850s to the late 1860s, when crinoline hoop skirts had ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

Brian May said: “We have written the story of crinoline up to the 2000s. It now belongs to these talented designers to continue the story.” May and Pellerin worked with DMU's Principal Lecturer and ...