0 a stiff frame worn under a woman's skirt to give it a full appearance, especially in the 19th century
Cut piece of crinoline, the exact shape of the crown, plus one inch all around.
She wore no vestige of crinoline, and hardly anything that could be called a train.
Women did not take to moving with freedom because the crinoline went out, but the crinoline went out when they took to moving with freedom.
Discussions of the crinoline often focus on the unmanageable and frivolous behavior of fashionable women.
As industrial technology put machine-made lace, steel cage crinolines, and silk dresses within the reach of an increasing number of female consumers, elegant simplicity became a hallmark of the elite.
Even when the bell-like silhouette produced by the crinoline skirt was at its greatest width, the essence of the horsewoman's garb was a lean, understated, and almost masculine simplicity.
Manifold flounces and braid, feathers and veiling, trains and crinolines took on the ambiguous and limiting flavor of feminine narcissism.
