e owed their lives to thecrinoline. It was under her immense farthingale thatMarguerite de Valois hid her husband on that dreadfulSt. Bartholomew night, while the perpetrators of thaihideous massacre were cutting to pieces the unfortunateHugenots who had been housed in the Louvere on theoccasion of… … satirests of the The Crinoline in the early sixties. going in for fullness round the waist and stiffening aroundthe hem. But it is difficult to conceive that the 20th cen-tury woman will ever wear a crinoline. Two or three times the American woman has success-fully revolted against fashions that…
Fashion
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