Crinoline's Shocking History: More Than Just A Skirt

Nov 10, 2024 · women began wearing crinolines in the 1850s to achieve the fashionable wide skirts of the era. Around 1850, women were much relieved when a new kind of crinoline was invented. The hoop crinoline, as it was called, was made of a series of steel rings, which got gradually bigger in. Skirts than the original crinoline. Before the addition of steel rings to crinolines, the skirts fell short in many ways including being expensive and not able to be washed.