Fashion in Paris; the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 (1898)
Uzanne, Octave, 1852-1931, Loyd, Mary Sophia Hely-Hutchinson, 1853-1936, Courboin, François, 1865-1926 · London, W. Heinemann · leaf 292
tterly obliterated. The amount of ink spilt in attacking and defending this extra-ordinary fashion, both in the press and in various contemporarypamphlets, is beyond all computation. M. Albert de la Fizeliere,amongst others, published an entertaining little monograph on Crinolinein bygone Times,… … crinoline, after 1855, with a description of the struggle between itsadherents and opponents, and all the incidents and fugitive literatureconnected therewith. There is reason to believe thatseveral poems, often or twelve cantos each, were inspiredby the much-debated adjunct to feminine adornment.…
Fashion · Costume
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