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A crinoline could give a skirt a shape that The Vintage News compares to a gigantic whipped-cream cake. The article describes it as a stiffened underskirt made using horsehair and linen or cotton, and says it became the focus of a Victorian craze known as Crinolinemania. It dates the garment’s invention to the early 1840s. The unlikely use of horsehair is a reminder that the shape of a dress depended on what people wore underneath it.
The article traces an earlier approach in panniers, underwear worn in the 17th and 18th centuries that extended skirts at the sides, creating a broad, squared shape for displaying dress decorations. Crinoline offered another way to support a skirt, though the extract does not explain exactly how its horsehair was worked into the fabric. How long did Crinolinemania actually last?
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