| 单词 | crinoline |
| 例句 | Lucinda and Susie and their girlfriends sit on lounge chairs, their crinoline skirts spread around them like the petals of flowers. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Silks, woolens, crinolines, cottons, satins, taffetas, tulles, and velvets are stretched over long tables by teams of people. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Their black hair in stiff curls down over their shoulders, their pink dresses made of crinoline and satin. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z There would be no enormous cage crinolines for her, thank you! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Well, anyhow it was hardly the church for crinolines and patent leather. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The servants remove her dress, the corset and crinoline, and stockings and gloves. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She had changed into a peach-colored crinoline gown and was pulling on lace gloves. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Party dresses have come back, bows and flamenco ruffles, straplessness and crinolines, puffed sleeves like cloth marshmallows: everything I thought was left behind forever. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z You can imagine what it looked like, against a pale blue satin crinoline, or whatever the dress was. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Behind her is a crumpled heap of crinolines and lace. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I got a real quilted skirt and crinoline slip. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Pilar ran away in the Miami airport, her crinoline dress swinging like a tiny bell through the crowd. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They stand beside women adorned with jewels and draped in luxurious, pastel-colored dresses made full with crinoline and tulle. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She was sitting between her parents on the overstuffed sea-foam-green sofa, a large girl herself, wearing a white crinoline dress with a ruffled hem and puffed sleeves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She unties the sash around my slip, undoes the petticoat ribbons, and removes my crinoline. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It has a narrow waist and a crinoline skirt that bells out like a ballerina’s tutu. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z They made it from an old fluffy half-slip of crinoline and lace, but when they were through cutting and pinning and tacking, it looked exactly like a canopy and not like a petticoat at all. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Pilar had fled through the crowds in her crinoline dress, escaping, always escaping. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The gowns and crinolines and veils worn by the dolls were all faded to beige and grey and fawn, and the faces were almost worn away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z They have layers of tulle and are propped up underneath with crinolines, and I worry about the hooks coming unfastened. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Whoops! These new cage crinolines take some getting used to,” she said gaily. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The former mature graduate of Central St Martins fashion college in London's collection consisted of structured collars and angular crinoline pencil skirts. In pictures 2011-02-25T16:33:22Z Some of the panniers, corsets, and crinolines, in particular, look more like scaffolding and architectural frameworks than clothing. A New Exhibition Explores the History—and Architecture—of Underwear 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z All period drama needs a Dowager Violet; a stalwart, anvil-faced mass of crinoline underskirts, default mode "livid", who can sniff mutiny from six rooms. Grace Dent's Screen burn: Downton Abbey 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Its makers constantly complained that our mini-gangsters were running up and down the corridors, terrorising the Cinderella cast in their crinolines and powdered wigs. How we made Bugsy Malone 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z She loves crinolines, sequins, slip dresses and the color pink. Betsey Johnson has never run with the fashion elite. That’s why she’s endured. 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z The minimal moment did not last, as raffia came into play: woven or crocheted, printed, patterned and even turned into an airy body cage like a 21st century crinoline. Going to the Max: Dolce & Gabbana 2012-09-23T17:57:26Z He collected eyelet parasols and velvet opera gloves, springy bustles and crinoline bloomers. Bill Cunningham’s Favorite Muse 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z “It was a period when all the girls looked like Janet Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor, with crinoline petticoats and starched hair,” he told The New York Times in 1985. Geoffrey Holder, Dancer, Choreographer and Man of Flair, Dies at 84 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Full leather midcentury skirts in butter yellow and lavender, bulked out not by a crinoline, but by an acre of fringe. The New, New Bottega Veneta 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z But at heart, “Mercy Street,” which counts Ridley Scott and the “E.R.” writer David Zabel among its executive producers, is a medical soap opera — “Grey’s Anatomy” with crinolines — and that’s the show’s most entertaining aspect. Review: ‘Mercy Street,’ a Civil War Hospital Drama on PBS 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z In Act II a wonderfully absurd Mother Ginger sports not only a vast, smart red crinoline but also a coiffure bedecked by a tiny galleon in full sail. Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker,’ at Boston Opera House 2012-12-31T23:32:32Z Indeed, Ms. Clarke and Ms. Hyland both seemed at ease, which was not the case for some stars, melting beneath layers of sequins and crinoline. At Emmys, Fashion Yields to the Heat 2012-09-26T19:57:33Z The first look down his fall 2015 runway was a girl in a puffy pink crinoline party dress wearing heavy black eyeliner and a snarling attitude. Betsey Johnson has never run with the fashion elite. That’s why she’s endured. 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z The fit was really beautiful and classic with a cinched waist and a little crinoline under the skirt. What I Wore: Kiernan Shipka of ?Mad Men? ? What I Wore 2012-03-23T15:43:11Z You learn, for instance, that in Haussmann’s Paris “the widening of the streets, it was said, was necessitated by the crinoline” of ladies’ dresses. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z Dressed in a range of top hats, tailcoats, and crinoline dresses, he unravels the complexities of colonial India and Britain. Manchester International Festival: 65 hours with Nikhil Chopra 2013-06-13T07:00:09Z In one scene, two artificial cage crinolines hang in a shop window. Bridgerton: in defense of "inaccurate" costumes in period dramas 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z The power of the image is evident at the exhibition’s entrance, where a figure in crinoline rotates like a moveable cage. A Joyous Image Maker Way Before His Time 2012-01-09T12:30:21Z Amid all this are tepid daubs of period detail: fluttering lace curtains, torn crinolines, crackling fires. ‘Booth’ Pushes an Assassin Off Center Stage 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Fifty dark couture creations such as black fur coats, black paneled leather pencil skirts, circular crinoline skirts, exaggeratedly high fringes, and sleeves in black “mille feuille” organza couture slinked along the silken catwalk. ‘Calm’ Kardashian joins Emma Watson at Valentino 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z But when Mr. Wu showed full-skirted prom dresses or a crinoline front swaying like a pregnant stomach, his technique was not up to his vision. 2010-02-14T13:00:00Z Merlin aside, gone were the crinolines and powdered wigs. 2012: a bumper year for homegrown TV 2012-12-29T00:07:11Z Dressing for the Ball Cinderella’s gown was “a feat of structural engineering,” Ms. Powell said, with many layers of fabric balanced on crinoline, a sort of dome-shaped cage used to make skirts voluptuous. Two Films, One Designer: The Costumes of ‘Carol’ and ‘Cinderella’ 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z It is later revealed that the dresses are sculptural crinolines on wheeled platforms; the women are actually wearing structured, gleaming undergarments like the men’s, designed by Joke Visser. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey With Jiri Kylian’s ‘Petite Mort’ at City Center 2012-12-09T23:21:42Z Similarly, the 1917 “barrel” silhouette, advertised as lighter than crinolines, restricted the ankles, making it more difficult for women to move. The Great War, and Great Change for Women 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The centerpiece of the show, "Grotto Installation," incorporates candy- colored video imagery playing over white stoneware set against a white crinoline backdrop, as well as faint tintinnabulations of sound. Paul Marioni, K?K? Cribbs at Traver Gallery 2011-12-01T22:01:08Z There are far too few anecdotes amid the bolts of tulle, satin and crinoline that drape page after page, forcing Klein to rely on her formidable fashion knowledge to pave over the narrative. Books Are the New Black 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Carroll often rode herd on Tenniel, one of the most successful illustrators of his day; “Don’t give Alice so much crinoline” was typical of the detailed degree of his authorial involvement. Looking at the Birth of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice,’ 150 Years Old 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Cinderella goes to the ball in a hot-air balloon, and the costume designs are suitably Ab Fab, with Antony McDonald conjuring a riot of period lace and crinoline with a twist of Galliano. This week's new dance 2010-12-11T00:07:00Z The 1950s were visited in full skirts which mixed with structuralist fashion: Hard bodice cages, which showed the inner working of corsetry of the crinoline age, on the outside. Chanel heads up imaginative, spirited day of shows 2012-10-02T22:56:10Z Some set off in corsets and crinolines, some in bloomers, others dressed like men. Zeroing In on the Female Traveler 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z “The dress had a crinoline, well crinolines. I suppose the skirt suggested to her something very Scarlett O’Hara.” Patricia Altschul, 78, Is the Dowager Countess of ‘Southern Charm’ 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z And his fear that the work’s immediacy would be drowned in crinolines has been justified by a thousand soft, safe costume-drama “Traviatas.” An 18th-Century Opera, Supercharged for Our Time 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z She tried on a corset and several heavy crinoline dresses before putting on one of Regina’s plain white nightgowns. Cynthia Nixon’s “Emily Thing” 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z You need a tough woman for that sort of job, and Ms. Blunt, who moves easily out of crinolines and into combat gear, holds this material together with fierce, unwavering conviction. Review: In ‘The Girl on the Train,’ a Boozy Emily Blunt Never Winks 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z That seems deliberate and poignant: after one key argument, Field plaintively collapses to the floor in a sea of crinoline, exasperated by the great man’s verbiage. Jackie finally puts first ladies front and center on the big screen 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Here’s just a fragment from one of hers: “a meridienne, banquette, pouf, ottoman, ear, stile, cross rail, stretcher, cross stretcher, crinoline stretcher, cornice, top rail, diamond point.” For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Inside, the single room is filled to capacity with crinolines that hang from the ceiling like hundreds of cumulus clouds in shades of ivory, tan and blush. Betsey Johnson has never run with the fashion elite. That’s why she’s endured. 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z I admit that I have never enjoyed that sort of preparation, though when I was twenty something, crinolines, scented cards and choosing lace gloves still gave me some pleasure. The Birthday Party and the Airman by ?ukasz D?bski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones 2011-04-08T10:22:00Z At the party the adult women wear plumes and fuller crinolines. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ in Philadelphia and by Manhattan Youth Ballet 2012-12-17T22:54:57Z The portrait depicts Madame Brunet in a black coat over a white crinoline dress with bands of black lace, a detail that reflects the fashions of the Spanish-born empress of France, Eugénie. Inside Art: ?The Ungovernables? at New Museum; a Manet to the Getty 2011-12-01T23:20:13Z Examining themes of sacrifice, the piece appears to contrast bourgeois 19th-century culture, embodied by a woman in a crinoline, with the irrational culture of traditional societies. Raven Girl/Symphony in C; iTMOi – review 2013-06-01T23:05:33Z And always changing, from a stamping scarlet hunting suit to bloomy, white crinoline. Danny La Rue's Queen of Hearts: from the Guardian archive, 21 December 1972 2012-12-21T07:30:00Z Quickly rebaptized as a “war crinoline,” it was pushed aggressively as allowing greater ease of movement even though it actually was heavier and more cumbersome than earlier styles. The Great War, and Great Change for Women 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z In the 1850s and 1860s, more middle-class women started wearing the crinoline as caged hoop skirts started being mass-produced. The fashionable history of social distancing 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z But these were toppers with a difference — given the X-ray treatment so that parts were made of translucent crinoline while others were deconstructed. Special Report: LONDON FASHION WEEK: 'Headonism': Inventive Hats 2010-02-21T22:01:00Z The highly structured silhouettes included some rigid corset bustiers that recalled the embellished crinoline of the Restoration epoch. Paris fashion channels past, escapes present woes 2012-03-04T02:31:04Z It started with a fascination for corsetry and crinoline skirts and the pain that women would put themselves through to be seen as beautiful. Juno Temple's teenage obsessions: 'Brandon Flowers was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen' 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z In the first scene she wore a white cage crinoline over billowy polka-dot pants; a twist of the torso made her look like a shuttlecock attending a Madonna concert in 1985. Dance Review: ?Mandorla? by Jenny Rocha at Here Arts Center 2012-04-15T21:25:28Z They strutted down the runway in cropped leather jackets with a lattice of straps, leather half skirts that hovered above thick wedges of crinoline and skirts that were — quite literally — pieced together from handbags. Perspective | At Paris Fashion Week, designers reworked the tuxedo and explored the meaning of color. And, oh yeah, Kanye showed up. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Liszt dons a crinoline and plucks a lyre. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z A satirical comic pokes fun at the ballooning crinolines of the mid-19th century. The fashionable history of social distancing 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z There was a patina of international elegance to a mini crinoline dress with flower buds on the skirt or to flowing low-crotch pants. Special Report: 'Non Doms' vs. Sexy Blondes 2010-09-20T11:04:00Z There was tulle the color and shape of storm clouds, the suggestions of corsetry and crinolines. What Do Women Need Now? 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z She styled the tailored look with a headpiece featuring a crinoline base with a layer of tulle and merry widow veiling, adorned with a ribbon bow. PHOTOS: Who wore what to King Charles III’s coronation 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z She styled the tailored look with a headpiece featuring a crinoline base with a layer of tulle and merry widow veiling, adorned with a Petersham ribbon bow. AP PHOTOS: Who wore what to King Charles III’s coronation 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Jean Milton Ellis, the sixth woman to wear it, added a crinoline to “give it a little boost” and avoid modifying the hem. 8 brides in one family have worn a Marshall Field’s wedding gown purchased in 1950: ‘It’s a lucky dress’ 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z If, for example, you enjoy the swish of crinoline against your thighs, you get precious little opportunity to feel it these days. Perspective | Past-life experience: If you could pick any time to live in, when would it be? 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Or goes to the bodega for coffee in an enormous white crinoline skirt that trails on the sidewalk, worn with a baggy striped sweater? Why the fashion of ‘And Just Like That …’ brings Moira Macdonald joy — even as she eye rolls everything else 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Eventually I lost badly and had to watch from the audience as the winner, in an impossibly fluffy ball gown, sawed through Tchaikovsky in a flurry of bow strokes and crinoline. Opinion | One Thing I Don’t Plan to Do Before I Die Is Make a Bucket List 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Among the other stylish looks included in the shoot were a Victoriana crinoline skirt with hot pink accents, a matching kilt and blazer, vibrant overcoats and Styles’ high-waisted flare pants. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez approves of Harry Styles' Vogue cover: 'It looks bomb' 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Other chic ensembles featured in the fashion shoot include vibrant overcoats, a Victoriana crinoline skirt with hot pink accents, a matching kilt and blazer, and Styles’ signature high-waisted flare pants. Vogue has blessed us with a historic Harry Styles cover shoot: See the photos 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z The vile muck spattered men’s boots, stained horses’ hoofs, ruined ladies’ crinolines. Review | In Lincoln’s Second Inaugural, human suffering and human sympathy 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z I hoarded photos of 19th century women mountaineers — with their big crinoline skirts climbing on the mountains! From circus-girl flash to flight-suit practicality, 'Aeronauts' costumes radiate energy 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z “The other clubs like traditional square dance clothing with crinolines and pettipants and all that mess.” Gay square dancers add new spin to centuries-old dance style 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z A few models looked ready for a 19th century ballroom, with crinoline skirts and meticulous embroidery. A layer cake at Assoulin, Caravaggio at Badgley Mischka 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Blue and white crinoline bounced from shoulders and waists; a lime green hat twinkled with rhinestones, and a hoop skirt lifted a train of binder-clipped Bubble Wrap. null 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z They got more raucous when she turned her back to them and shook her crinolines before sitting in her seat.” Essential California: Fact versus hype in California's wildfire season 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z There are few directors around with as much command of material culture as Coppola, who imbues the setting’s silks, crinolines, glassware and candle wax with refulgent depth and texture. Review | With ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola explores yet another insular female universe 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z But close up, they were meticulously and gorgeously constructed; their rough-hewed, blunted exteriors encased in thoughtful and ergonomic scaffolding, buttresses of padded wiring, canvas boning, industrial-strength crinolines. Rei Kawakubo, Interpreter of Dreams 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z J.Crew showed a quirky mix of Fair Isle sweaters over pleated skirts and crinolines, as well as full trousers and dramatics blouses — all of it on nonprofessional models. Review | How can fashion represent America in 2017? 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z With a tucked Basque waist, and a spray of flowers descending diagonally across its wide crinoline skirt, the long peach-colored dress is perfect for a girl feeling the first blush of womanhood. Defying the Conventions of Fashion 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Essentially, viewers were shocked by the way she occasionally tugs at the bottom of her skirt and how the crinolines underneath are visible. This Is What Americans Used to Consider Obscene 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z What’s on Show: Displaying three centuries of corsets and crinolines, bras and bustles, pantaloons and panties, the exhibit traces the shifting boundaries between public and private dress. Your Guide to 2016’s Fashion-Themed Museum Blockbusters 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z For too long we have lived in the shadow of hypocritical narratives of a “moral majority”, hiding beneath the crinoline hoop skirt of false pretences of moral and ethical purity, despite a “godless” world. America’s south embraces bigotry of the past, but a new coalition is fighting back 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Corsets and crinolines, boxers and bras … the history of underwear is also an intimate history of changing attitudes to gender, sex, hygiene and morality. Smartypants: the fart-filtering future of underwear 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The show, which features more than 200 items made between 1750 and the present day, is dominated by women's undergarments: corsets and crinolines, stockings and shifts, chemises and stays. Think of it as Victoria's (and Albert's) secret 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z In recent years, I’d started paying attention to the incidental descriptions of clothing in old accounts of Alpine expeditions: Victorians lumbering around on glaciers in crinoline and tweed; Wordsworth with his “little knapsack of necessaries.” Alone in the Alps 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Gone were the days of hair flips and crinoline skirts, of songs that lasted just 2:21. The Lives They Lived 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Stylized black poodles romp across billowy pink gingham bib dresses, with skirts fashioned from enough material for a crinoline or two underneath. Neo 80, a Melrose fashion rock star in the '80s, pops up in Joshua Tree 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z We have romanticized the roots of hate with crinoline and celluloid. Unraveling the threads of hatred, sewn into a Confederate icon 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Out were the crinolines, pumped up volumes, and historical costumes. New York Fashion Week 2015: Fearless fashion flyers Thom Browne and Rosie Assoulin 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z It's an unabashedly girlie fragrance, a scent that is pretty and floral and puts one in the mind of crinolines and lace, and parasols and satin. Girlie pink and darker red perfumes for Valentine's Day 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z You don’t have to drop $50 on a play dress with a crinoline. 5 Cheap DIY Halloween Costumes 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Fishnet stockings are paired with Converse All Stars; macho military jackets with leopard print trim top ultra-feminine crinolines. Neo 80, a Melrose fashion rock star in the '80s, pops up in Joshua Tree 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Key pieces: Princess-like dresses puffed up with crinoline skirts, worn by models fitted with sinister wings. Paris Fashion Week: At Undercover, a fractured fairy tale 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Fifty dark couture creations such as black fur coats, black paneled leather pencil skirts, circular crinoline skirts, exaggeratedly high fringes, and sleeves in black "mille feuille" organza couture slinked along the silken catwalk. 'Calm' Kardashian joins Emma Watson at Valentino 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The collection for Fall/Winter 2014 included embroidered silk dresses, long frock coats, crinolines and flight suits. Emma Watson, Jennifer Lawrence, Marion Cotillard at Dior Haute Couture 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Why bother with the $30,000 bash and the white crinoline dress? Elizabeth Wurtzel: The Pope Is Right—Kids Are the Point of Life 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Victorian Britain 1860’s London: A stairway needs widening to accommodate the circumference of a fashionable dress, popularly known as a “crinoline.” What Do Corsets, Skyscrapers And 3D Printing Have In Common? 2014-03-17T14:00:00Z She dressed “feminine” for the interview in crinolines and high heels, she recalled in her affidavit, but it turned out the investigators wanted to know about her sister’s friends in a union. Edith Windsor, The Unlikely Activist 2013-12-11T13:05:20Z They simply twisted them into bundles, giving them a lovely crinoline finish in the bargain. How I learned to love the sari 2013-12-09T00:32:34Z Further, the Old South, as dewily portrayed in these movies and many others, radiated the romance of some mythical kingdom, where drawling gents sipped mint juleps and kissed the hands of belles in crinoline. Gettysburg: The Battle That the Movies Ignored 2013-07-03T11:05:28Z The gown featured French seamed crinoline borders, which cascaded into a dramatic cathedral train finished in the lace, with accents of a peacock-feathered design. NBA owner Michael Jordan marries over the weekend 2013-04-28T20:25:08Z Lighter and wider, crinolines became a sensation, as well as a growing target of ridicule—all thanks to a man named Henry Bessemer. What Do Corsets, Skyscrapers And 3D Printing Have In Common? 2014-03-17T14:00:00Z When crinoline came in, she thought it impudent in a servant to wear it; but when crinoline went out, she deemed it no less presuming in her to lay it aside. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Now, indeed, ladies who travel in first-class carriages by rail, find the seats too narrow and almost destructive to their crinoline. Geoffery Gambado A Simple Remedy for Hypochondriacism and Melancholy Splenetic Humours 2012-03-14T02:00:27.650Z I remember a desperate hour when I found that the walking doll from Paris had clockwork under her crinoline, and could not be comfortably taken to bed. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Yesterday Milady of Manhattan in her hoopskirt and crinoline; today Milady in thick furs above her knees and thin silk stockings and high-heeled pumps below them: tomorrow.... The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z Steel during the height of the crinoline craze of the 1860s was cheaper and easier to produce than older whalebone-based cage designs. What Do Corsets, Skyscrapers And 3D Printing Have In Common? 2014-03-17T14:00:00Z Developing African possessions is the fashion, so naturally Portugal, who persists on going about in crinoline and poke bonnet style, gets jeered at. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Even the two oil portraits, of his grandfather in a stiff stock and his grandmother in crinoline, had become in a way personal possessions. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z At one corner of the latter they put a large figure of an Englishman attended by a small native, at another an Englishwoman in a crinoline and with rather short petticoat. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Farthingale, f�r′thing-gāl, n. a kind of crinoline of whalebone for distending women's dress. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z And I have wondered if an extensive donation of “crinoline” would not be more effectual in filling up our ranks, than graceful bows and bewitching smiles. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields 2012-01-07T03:00:15.907Z Here we fell in with several very handsome ladies, 295elegantly dressed, each sporting a gigantic crinoline. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z There must be crinoline—would I never escape from that!—and candelabra with glittering prisms; Spanish soldiers in striped linen and officials with green-tasselled canes. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z We made a handsome couple, you and I. You wore a crinoline, with a black bombazine tippet; and I was in nankeen overalls and a fob. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z In later years she discarded something of her earlier manner, and sang songs of the “pompadour” and the “crinoline” period in costume. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z It was the age of crinoline, and she must have had a circumference of eight feet. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z On the way to church, and indeed, in all walks abroad, you held the hand of an aunt; the circumferent crinolines made the holding an arm's-length business, very tiring. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Bonnet of fancy straw and crinoline in alternate rows, lined with drawn white silk, and trimmed with white ribbon. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z The fashion of that day was to wear a bodice drawn in at the waist with a belt, and crinoline. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:20.960Z These ladies can dance in the least possible space, their costume being particularly well adapted for the purpose, partaking as it does much more of the "Bloomer" than the "crinoline." In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z The introduction of the crinoline had been made by the Empress before the birth of the Prince Imperial. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z A lady filled the whole interior of the vehicle with her white robe, and one scarcely perceived in one corner hidden under the immense crinoline, which was then so fashionable, a little, thin, withered-looking man. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z "You have still a good deal of haughtiness to overcome, Miss Meade, if you expect every man to treat you as if you wore side curls and a crinoline." The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z The only thing she did, however, was to free herself from the remains of her crinoline, which she threw from her, and which caught in the legs of the table. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:20.960Z THE bachelor in cap and crinoline felt sufficiently ill at his ease in the streets of Paris. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z Then, answering himself: "I guess it's just a question of women's fashions, like crinolines!" Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z In these houses lived the heroines of sixty years ago, who shopped for crinoline and spent their mornings at Stewart's to match a Godey pattern. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Her approaching crinoline made soft little rustles, as if entreating him to leave his musings. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z Tell us about the first sewing machine, or the first railroad, or about crinolines or contemporary theater or art. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z But, alas! crinoline flourished; and five whole years later on was still so enormous that she took up her parable against it once more, in Once a Week, as the cause of "willful murder." Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z And that hussar begins telling that he has taken MacMahon's tent—a magnificent tent, with mirrors, china, ladies' hats and crinolines. The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z Could the gentle ladies in their fragile guard of crinoline have withstood this French assault? Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z In the object of our young friend’s admiration, I fancy I see the approach of crinoline, while her ringlets afford a striking contrast to the fringes of the present day. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z She straightened her skirt, and the edge of her crinoline petticoat glistened in the candlelight. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z Wait in the churchyard on Sunday when service ends, and you will see many a gay skirt, hung with flounces and outspread by crinoline, come flaunting forth from the church. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Candidly speaking, my boy, this New-Year's-calls business is not a sensible calling, and simply amounts to a caravan of monkeys attending a menagerie of trained crinoline. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z My impression is that these chapters will do: my womankind like them, and only complain that there are no female scenes in the No. But there shall be crinolines to the fore hereafter. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z It was formed of circles of whalebone hoops, and protruded more at the waist than the Victorian crinoline. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Foy was in costume – laced into an elaborate crinoline that, as Calthrop fixed drinks, made contact with the element of his electric stove. Behind Britain's silent movies: sex, drugs and scandal-struck stars 2011-04-08T14:43:09Z "What with diner � la Russe, crinoline, and pale sherry," he said one day, "England is fast going to the dogs." Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z I reiterate, give them all they demand, let them vote, elect them to office, put a bale of dry-goods and crinoline in the Presidential chair, and what would be the result? The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z The rooms were so small that her dress seemed to fill them to overflowing, although those were not the days of crinolines and long trains. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z Farthingale Farthingale, or Fardingale, an article of ladies' attire worn in the days of Queen Elizabeth, and closely resembling the more recent crinoline. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z From time to time you are obliged to shake off the vice and crinoline that seek to be companions of your walk. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z She is the most amusing person possible, is never ill, laughs fine-ladyism to scorn, and scrambles about the park, regardless of colds and crinolines, in all states of the weather. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Just now you look as though you only wanted the crinoline and the little curls to be some one's grandmother in her youth. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z The ladies’ crinolines blocked the ladders and gangways. Cruise and Captures of the Alabama 2011-01-30T03:00:18.733Z Even the crinoline dress, when treated with the exquisite silk gauzes, as Fig. Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers 2011-01-11T03:00:34.680Z How careful they are that the crinoline "sticks out" properly before they venture on the road to school! My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z In the middle of the present century crinolines were again to the fore, skirts were proportionately wide and generally flounced to the top. The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z Many of the girls formerly owned a trunkful of jewels and a houseful of servants, but now they dispensed with chignon and crinoline. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z With a crinoline and black mittens—thanks, awfully. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z This particularly fine embroidered specimen, in imitation of the 18th-century style, is interestingly cut away short at the back to allow for better setting on the crinoline. Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers 2011-01-11T03:00:34.680Z Ladies love Paris as a vast warehouse of jewelry and all the rich stuffs that hide the crinoline from eyes profane. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z There are vendors of comic books, crinolines and crystal of varying degrees of beauty and value. | Chelsea: A Garage Brimming With Vintage Wares, Not Cars 2010-08-05T20:06:00Z Of Shakespeare it may be said that he was the first to see the dramatic value of doublets and that a climax may depend on a crinoline. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man I can imagine what it looked like, with the men in white stocks and flowered waistcoats and the women in their crinolines and red-heeled slippers, bowing to the minuet under that candle-light! The Valiants of Virginia Vaughan perhaps was too sensible a fellow to think of his pose, but even we have our weaknesses under certain circumstances, as well as the crinolines. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories A simple brown dress, worn, despite the prevailing fashion, without crinoline, completed the unusually grave appearance of the youthful figure. The Children of the World Angela, compared to our crinolines, our flirts, our insipid coquettes--how brilliant the light, how deep the shadow! The Progressionists, and Angela. His own boat was upset and he saved himself and some others by swimming; some women had drifted ashore, buoyed up by their crinolines. Reveries over Childhood and Youth Observe the amazing rudeness of the design, and note the modern waist and crinoline. Custom and Myth New Edition At one time the making of crinoline skirts for ladies was a large and profitable trade; now it has ceased almost entirely, and those who learnt the business have had to seek other employments. Political economy She should have worn eternally a crinoline and a wreath of flowers; her soft gray-blue eyes, her little bowed mouth, her slim throat, should have been the subject of a perpetual steel engraving. Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance She is an innocent country creature; does not wear crinoline, dresses in blue like a bluebell, has not a dainty stomach, and has no toilette nonsense. The Progressionists, and Angela. Down the court years ago had come the beauties, with their striped stockings and swaying crinolines and velvety chignons. Carnival “You see it made my frock stand out like crinoline and no one would think it was anything else.” A Daughter of the Union A wild, impudent looking girl, who wore a large crinoline, and smoked a short pipe in a free and easy fashion, soon became her especial favorite. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Why are ladies who wear large crinolines ugly? The Handbook of Conundrums "But she does not wear crinoline," said Frank. The Progressionists, and Angela. Men and women, lads and maidens, boys and girls, if we may call the little dolls dressed up in crinoline and flounces, and the young gentlemen in patent-leather boots, such, are all alike. About London It was something strange to us to see long silken skirts entirely destitute of crinoline, ruffle, or flounce, trailed here through mud and mire, or raised displaying low Congress gaiters, destitute of heels. An American Girl Abroad "You will find, Sir, that a Culpepper doesn't change," said Madam; and, with a gesture of queenly scorn, she swept with expansive crinoline out of the room. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 The ’fifties showed even more barbarous devices, and about 1854 came in from France the crinoline, that strange revival of the ancient hoop. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" He spread his wings stiffly like a crinoline around his body, strutted about the yard, uttered a gallant guttural gobble, and played the fine lady in style. The Progressionists, and Angela. Dwellers in huts and marble halls— From shepherdess up to queen— Cared little for bonnets, and less for shawls, And nothing for crinoline. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 She was in bourgeois costume, without the fashionable crinoline, and on her head was a simple felt cap; her girl was dressed in just the same way. Eyes Like the Sea Behind her sounded a faint patter of crinoline coming down the hall stairs. John March, Southerner Towards the end of the ’sixties the crinolines disappeared as suddenly as they came, and by 1875 skirts were so tight at the knees that walking upstairs in them was an affair of deliberation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" We live in an age of crinoline, and you know how I abominate that dress; I admit my aversion is abnormal, perhaps exaggerated, but I cannot overcome it. The Progressionists, and Angela. They wore crinoline round their shoulders instead of their waists, having huge sleeves stuffed and padded. Timar's Two Worlds After walking up and down between the seats, the gentleman found no unoccupied seat, except the one-half of that upon which the lady had deposited her precious self and crinoline—the latter very modestly expansive. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years I always suspect them of being devoted to the mode of the moment and likely to appear next year in crinoline, or whatever else Paris dictates. Old Plymouth Trails One thing about her dress most in contrast with that of the other servants was that she evidently wore no crinoline. Household Papers and Stories This judgment is at the same time a protest of a noble nature against the age of crinoline. The Progressionists, and Angela. Bonnet of white crinoline, with rows of lilac ribbon set on in bouillonnées. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. This hoop-skirt, or crinoline, I think they used to call it, gave it to me. The Boarded-Up House They censure the fashions in dress—the preposterous crinolines and the bonnets almost hanging down on the back like a knapsack—touch politics slightly: Louis Napoleon, Palmerston, Russian Nicholas. When Ghost Meets Ghost A good-looking girl without crinoline had a sort of unworldly freshness of air that really constituted a charm. Household Papers and Stories "Angela is beautiful, very beautiful, far more so than a hundred others who are beautiful but wear crinoline." The Progressionists, and Angela. "And if they settle Mike, you'll run on the crinoline ticket, I suppose?" The Co-Citizens A Mexican aristocrat, small and slender, of a subtle, winsome beauty, with the prettiest mouth and the most pyramidal of crinolines, she had reminded Bazaine of his first wife, and he had courted her. The Missourian The extensive crinoline of the ladies effectually prevented a retreat in any direction, and I was unpleasantly conscious of the suppressed titter the fair ones tried to conceal behind their fans. Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia She looked at the plain furniture and cheap carpet; the wallpaper was hideous; there was a frightful oleograph of two Early Victorian women with crinolines and ringlet curls hanging over the mantlepiece. The Phantom Lover So deep that even the detested crinoline that encircled her person in large hoops found favor in my sight. The Progressionists, and Angela. Bob Sasnett figured as the first candidate in Jordan County who would run for office on the crinoline ticket. The Co-Citizens The "crinoline hose," thus made, is very flexible, and will support a column of water one hundred and fifty or two hundred feet high. Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining I had my wife's opera-glass in my hand, and I saw with inexpressible pleasure a young vagrant vendor of pastry offering his goods to two ladies in crinolines, with a small dog. Dreamers of the Ghetto Some wore women’s hats, some crinoline hoop-skirts over their shoulders; others brandished boots and shirts, and one glistening brave swung a banjo at arm’s-length over his flying horse’s head. The Mountain Divide "Then you believe our women to be vain, pleasure-seeking, and destitute of true womanhood, because they wear crinoline?" The Progressionists, and Angela. He feels sure that he will be elected by an overwhelming majority of the crinoline vote. The Co-Citizens Next to the unapproachable ugliness of 'crinoline,' I think these high-shouldered sleeves are the worst things invented for ladies in our time. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 They want all sorts of rubbishing ribbons and crinolines and flounces. Great Uncle Hoot-Toot O what a heartlessness, recklessness, flippancy, and crime, of those mothers, wives and young crinolines, when one half of the population is already in mourning, when they have fathers, brothers, husbands in the army. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 You ought to wear a bonnet and a crinoline, and carry a little fringed parasol, and talk about your ‘papa’! The Madcap of the School But regardless of pants or crinoline, the question remains unanswered and unanswerable. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Some wilderness—some place where I shall not see crinoline, nor be expected to do the polite thing. Nobody Whenever their voices became audible I strongly suspected that the ladies were asking whether the steamer had brought any crinoline from Copenhagen. The Land of Thor The President, the various Secretaries, Senators, Congressmen, newspapers, contractors, sutlers, jobbers, politicians, mothers, wives, sisters, sweethearts and loose crinolines. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Again, I see young men selling artificial flowers, and laces and embroidery, crinolines and balmorals, and I think to myself they had better be out digging coal or making brick. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Just think of an army of crinolines willing to take arms against the tyrant man, and sacrifice their lives, if need be, to carry out their principles! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III She went always voluminously clad in black or shot-silk gowns, their skirts so swelled out by a multiplicity of starched cambric petticoats, adorned with tambour-work, that she was credited with the existence of a crinoline. The Dop Doctor It is indeed so late that instead of the jupons, striped and black and white, of which Georgette has made irreproachable but profitable use, she appears at the denouement in a crinoline! A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century This devotion of these genuine gentlewomen atones for the ignoble flippancy of dancing crinolines. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 We have had the crinoline, that senseless bulwark of steel hoops; we still have the extravagant stove-pipe hat, which tries to mould our heads in its stiff sheath. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles I’d quite forgot, among the lot, There too wor Pally Pickles, Wi’ crinoline shoo walks so fine, Shoo’s like a cat i’ prickles. Revised Edition of Poems Can't you picture the coaches as they rolled up to the door, discharging the ladies in their crinolines, laces, satins, and flowers, attended by the gentlemen wrapped in the long cloaks of that period? A Portrait of Old George Town But Maryanne wore her hoops as a duchess wears her crinoline. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm The natural ensemble was enhanced by her costume, all of black, from the closely fitting bodice to the rustling crinoline beneath which there peeped out tiny shoes. Desert Dust Mr. Babbage was very angry with Leah, whose back the horse actually grazed, as he all but caught his hoofs in her crinoline and hit her with a stirrup on the shoulder. The Martian Give the little boy a cigar, and the little girl a new crinoline; they like that much better. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen If Henrietta's crinoline will leave any room in the carriage," answered Louie, "I shall try to get a little corner, perhaps under the seat, or one could always run behind. The Third Miss Symons I got the resin from another friend of mine, Mayer-Lippa, Sarah's son, for a bit of steel from my mother's old crinoline which had been knocking about in the attic. Jewish Children To have made the toilette correspond throughout, the dress should have consisted of a crinoline skirt, which, though not so ornamental, would have been not less admirable and more effective. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) So gentle reader do not grin At sight of cumbrous crinoline. A Humorous History of England Then came the mother herself, in crinoline, Madame AUGUST, a wholesale dealer in fruit, proprietress of a large number of fish ponds and a land cultivator. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen I say,’ she added at the door, ‘housemaids always come to be hired minus crinoline and flowers, is it the same with governesses?’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster I found a bit of steel belonging to my mother's crinoline, and I set it very cleverly into a piece of wood. Jewish Children The following ornaments are to be absolutely prohibited—"feathers, flowers, brooches, buckles or clasps, earrings, lockets, neck-ribbons and velvets, kid-gloves, parasols, sashes, jackets, Garibaldis, all trimming on dresses, crinoline, or steel of any kind." Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Lady Macbeth now appeared, in a silk dress of the latest fashion, expanded by the amplest of crinolines. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Women have never been so much respected since crinolines went out of fashion. Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir "Nor he you in an ordinary silk gown, puffed out with crinoline." The Bertrams Here’s my real chance to prove that it doesn’t need a series of lessons to get some satin smoothly on a crinoline frame. Patty's Success A practised eye will be able to discern two humble figures in attendance, which from their flowing crinolines may, without exposing the prophet to the imputation of rashness, be predicted to be women. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 Against exaggerated hoop-skirts he has all along set his face, and seldom, if ever, condescends to delineate a lady in crinoline. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 If I decline, and he thereupon challenges me at least to draw the wasp's body, with its pretty bands of black crinoline—behold us involved instantly in the profound question of local color! On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature Panniers and the crinoline save her an enormous amount of mental agony. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends As the infant world ascended from cambric and dimity to broadcloth and crinoline, its propensity for investigation grew stronger. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 No woman, whatever her age or position or her opinion about the crinoline fashion, could avoid wearing one. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals There is a pictorial hiatus of some years, but the text notes that crinoline for women enjoyed a sway of some years' duration. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The ladies array themselves in long dresses, full of plaits, and often stiff as crinoline—plain for the commonalty, but heavily laden with embroidery, and deeply edged with fur, in the case of the aristocracy. For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary And I cannot even scorn the man who declares that Tennyson is demodé because his heroines are in crinoline and conventional, and his mediæval knights cut out of pasteboard. Confessions of a Book-Lover And the crinoline, to which the American invention was to afford an antidote, provides Leech with material for a hundred humorous points of view. The History of "Punch" A woman is ashamed to be without a crinoline or a bustle when all the rest wear them. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Her skirt, of the same colour and material, hung in straight folds to her feet, being innocent alike of trimming and the then prevailing fashion of crinoline. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance I have often told him that the stiff, crinoline atmosphere of the place is the right touch for him, but he does not understand. Nights in London Sometimes a “crinoline” to afford protection to the stomach in deep water is put on, but on the present occasion it was omitted, the water being shallow. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Every afternoon when the pavement was unusually patronized by young officers, these women would sally out, promenade in crinoline, silk stockings, and saucy hoods, and the crowd would fall respectfully back to let them pass. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War No dress ever was more, or more justly, denounced for ugliness, inconvenience, and indecency than the crinoline, but all the women from 1855 to 1865, including some of the sweetest who ever lived, wore it. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Don't be afraid of the crinoline, my boy. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette But after dinner as you doze each e'en, From your disjointed mutterings I glean Your mind is running on a crinoline, O Seraphine! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893 The crinoline, as we have said elsewhere, is seldom used except at great depths, where the pressure of water is excessive. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters The women were especially eager to know the mysteries of crinoline, and anxiously inspected the dress of their foreign sisters. Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman An awkward predicament is as unfamiliar to me as a crinoline; I have never been in one. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The elastic steel wires of her crinoline, had resisted the deadly force of the blow, which otherwise would undoubtedly have killed her. Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience The danger of attack by torpedo-boats having been recognised, both ironclads had let down their crinolines. In the Track of the Troops Then the “crinoline” was drawn on, but it added no feminine sharpness to his wits, though it seriously modified and damaged the shape of his person. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Women wore coalscuttle bonnets and three-cornered shawls, with the points hanging down in the centre of their backs, and crinolines that gave them the appearance of inverted tops. The Kensington District The Fascination of London A much preferable method is to baste a bias strip of crinoline along the positions to be occupied by the hooks and eyes; this gives strength to the finish. Textiles and Clothing A confounded little lapdog,—the spaniel you saw just now with his nose just above the crinoline. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 To protect ourselves from the offensive weapon, we use crinolines.” In the Track of the Troops Still, his warfare against crinoline, small bonnets, and other feminine fancies in dress, has been tiresomely inveterate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 She had folded a blanket between the double sheet, so as to give the effect of wadding, and an ancient crinoline held out the folds with old-world effect. Pixie O'Shaughnessy The hooks and eyes are sewed securely through the crinoline and one thickness, but the stitches should not show on the outside. Textiles and Clothing In the afternoon I saw many negroes and negresses parading about in their Sunday clothes—silks and crinolines—much smarter than their mistresses. Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 The daughter was a copy of the father, in crinoline; taking to affectation—which is vulgarity in its most offensive form—as a duck takes to water. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Perhaps our grandchildren may have the same difficulty about the race which wears crinolines and chimney-pot hats. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Her ample form was swathed in the rustling folds of a magnificent silk gown which had evidently been cut in the days of the crinoline attachment. On the Heels of De Wet In a close-fitting collar made of heavy material an interlining of canvas or crinoline is necessary. Textiles and Clothing There was not a curl paper, nor even a threat of crinoline. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales At one time he was making two hundred and fifty thousand yards of crinoline wire every day. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money The water fell in torrents over the gay bonnets, caps, crinolines, etc., until they became a mass of tawdry, and the bare pates of those under them came ludicrously into view. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Graciella had made a raid on the cedar chest, and shone resplendent in crinoline, curls, and a patterned muslin. The Colonel's Dream For the collar or neck band have a true bias of thin canvas or crinoline and draw it around the neck and pin with the ends out, towards the worker. Textiles and Clothing Sew a strip of crinoline flat over seam to smooth it up. Make Your Own Hats On entering the shop, the visitor is amused by finding a lot of little urchins occupied in making ladies’ hoopskirts of the latest fashionable design; nearly 100 are engaged in the crinoline department. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The consequence was, that people's crinolines collapsed faster than the Confederacy did, of which that brute of a Grierson said there was never anything of it but the outside. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Then crinoline, gaudy materials, and ornamentations without meaning reached their high-water mark in the costuming of women. Woman as Decoration Finish at Wrist For the sleeve finished plainly around the wrist, a piece of bias crinoline should be fitted at the hand. Textiles and Clothing Wire edge of brim and cover wire with crinoline—same method as used on sailor brim. Make Your Own Hats The gate closes with a cord and pulley after her, and somehow the hem of the fresh, outspreading crinoline gets caught in it, as it shuts. Faith Gartney's Girlhood Eug�nie invented toilettes that were copied by all the women in the civilized world: she invented crinoline, and added a new product to the manufactures of the earth. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 It may look suspiciously like it when we see a mere swing of the pendulum carrying the straight sheath out to the ten-yard limit of crinoline skirts. Woman as Decoration In this way the crinoline will be neither too short nor too loose and all wrinkling will be prevented. Textiles and Clothing Cover the seam with a strip of crinoline to smooth it up. Make Your Own Hats They went from picture to picture, commenting on the fashions of the past, feeling a sort of longing for the curious old crinolines and the broad mantillas with the high combs. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) Here was a picture of Cynthia's mother in a crinoline with her baby on her knee. Green Valley You will observe that under the head of crinoline and hoop-skirt periods, there are a variety of outlines, markedly different. Woman as Decoration A bias strip of silk sufficiently wide to cover the crinoline is hemmed at the lower edge and to the sleeve lining just above the interlining. Textiles and Clothing A good result is obtained, however, by sewing the wire directly on the edge or by covering the edge first with crinoline and sewing the wire on it. Make Your Own Hats These great writers all remained modern, while the "New Theology" takes one back to the time of crinolines. Gilbert Keith Chesterton There were girls in liberty caps, crinolines and sunbonnets. Green Valley Some day, when the Wateaus of the future are painting the court ladies who again dance pavanes in sunlit glades, wearing wigs and crinoline, such data will amuse. Woman as Decoration W.—And wear his wife’s own crinoline, And try his hand at baking! The Poetry of Wales Neteen and crinoline make excellent foundations for braid hats, as these materials are light in weight, soft, and pliable. Make Your Own Hats To Remove Shine from Woolen Goods—Wet a piece of crinoline and lay it over the shiny surface of the goods. Fowler's Household Helps Over 300 Useful and Valuable Helps About the Home, Carefully Compiled and Arranged in Convenient Form for Frequent Use She laughed when she came across the crinoline hoops and the droll little velvet bonnets. Green Valley But otherwise, the entire company appear in the frock-coats and crinolines of the period, and every scene is played in silk hats, bonnets, and regulation evening toilette. Studies in Early Victorian Literature She wore no vestige of crinoline, and hardly anything that could be called a train. Phineas Finn The Irish Member To make a turban frame of neteen or crinoline— Make the side crown from a bias fold of neteen or crinoline, the height desired, plus one inch. Make Your Own Hats Pull the crinoline away quickly, as you would a plaster, and this will raise the nap of the goods. Fowler's Household Helps Over 300 Useful and Valuable Helps About the Home, Carefully Compiled and Arranged in Convenient Form for Frequent Use I wish too that people who wear crinoline could see the indecency of their own dress as other people see it. Notes on Nursing What It Is, and What It Is Not ThisPg 154 example was followed by the artists, who put wigs on their statues; in France they would put on crinoline. The Wonders of Pompeii She went through the darkness to where she had left her crinoline. Secret Bread A round crown of buckram makes a good turban frame if a bias strip of crinoline an inch wide is sewed to the lower edge to give a little flare. Make Your Own Hats He was clothed in a coarse blue and white Manchester print edged with red baize, and arranged in large folds so as to look like a crinoline put on wrong side foremost. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 A respectable elderly woman stooping forward, invested in crinoline, exposes quite as much of her own person to the patient lying in the room as any opera-dancer does on the stage. Notes on Nursing What It Is, and What It Is Not In the evening he generally goes out as a bachelor—free from responsibility of crinoline—while I go early to bed, too happy to have him a little amused. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Each little movement—a raised eyebrow seems almost enough—and the crinoline sways this way and that, divinely true at the waist alone…. Secret Bread A soft hat of braid can more easily be made by first making a frame of crinoline and sewing the braid to it. Make Your Own Hats There are no new fairy-tales of the days when your grandmothers wore crinolines—I know, for I have searched. On The Art of Reading We do not thrill with indignation, when we learn that he was, on a certain occasion, swept by crinolines into the middle of Broadway. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 I, in my confusion, did not glance at her petticoats, but, judging a priori, I should predicate a natural incompatibility with crinoline. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II She kicked a protesting leg against the framework of her crinoline, that shot out in front of her alarmingly. Secret Bread Cut an oval of crinoline two-thirds as large as the top of crown, baste a piece of silk lining over this. Make Your Own Hats Though I say it myself, I managed my crinoline with grace. The Flower of the Chapdelaines Grandfather's theology fitted the last days of his life about as crinoline and hoop-skirts would fit over there on the avenue to-day— but he always made me feel religious. The Seeker It had a slight cant towards the church, and suggested nothing so much as a disreputable Victorian widow, in tippet, mantle and crinoline, seeking the support of a stone wall after a carouse. Joanna Godden “There is a great many boxes here, and I with my crinoline have not got room.” The Claverings Lap ends of crinoline one-fourth inch at finish, but do not turn ends under. Make Your Own Hats The package contained a lady's skirt and crinoline, and the note these terse words: "Wear these, or volunteer." Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South To play this music with just the right spirit, you must put yourself en rapport with the epoch in which it was written—the era of crinoline, powdered wigs, snuffboxes and mincing minuets. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Mother tried to make me into the kind of girl that men admired when she was young; but the type has gone out of fashion to-day just as much as crinolines or a small waist. One Man in His Time You come early and I have not got my crinoline. The Claverings Cut piece of crinoline, the exact shape of the crown, plus one inch all around. Make Your Own Hats He belongs to the top-hat and the crinoline; to Friends in Council and "nice feelings." In a Green Shade A Country Commentary My poor skirts of lace and satin were abominably stiffened and tossed about by the hard crinoline hoops. Parisian Points of View Sixty years ago, in modest crinolines, she might have made history; and duels would probably have been fought for her favour. One Man in His Time And I lived in a world of old lace and lavender, of crinoline and brocade. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Sew close to both lapped edges of the buckram and cover with a strip of muslin or crinoline sewed on flat. Make Your Own Hats But the spirit is different; narrower, more circumscribed; in a word, it dates, like the top-hat and the crinoline. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Chandeliers, great coruscating pendants of glass prisms and candles, glittered above the expanse of whirling crinoline and blue coats, vermilion turbans, gilt feathers and flowered hair. The Three Black Pennys A Novel A goddess in crinoline would be a semi-mundane creature at best; and the image unluckily suggests that Johnson was unphilosophically, not to say vulgarly, fond of rank, fashion, and their appendages. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings These singers are all clad in white, and packed with great compression of crinoline,—if that, indeed, were worn on the occasion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 It is true that gun detachments and ammunition will be secure within the internal "crinolines," but how about the other men and mat�riel between decks? Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 The dressing-table was made of a long, low box, with a glass top and a valance so crisp and flouncing that it suggested a young lady in crinoline. The House in Good Taste She rose and stood facing him, very near, her crinoline swaying against him, and said blindly, "You shall marry her." The Three Black Pennys A Novel Among this débris was the missile; resembling nothing so much as a huge crinoline. The War of the Wenuses Consequently you see much of crinoline and little of character. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 "This wearer of crinoline seems destined to play Oedipus to the Sphinx he is supposed to be;" or better still, as he gallantly adds, the "Lais" for whose sake he will unveil the mystery unasked. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) He would have missed the voluminous skirt that followed the crinoline, with its glorious opportunity for beautiful spacing of white in a drawing, more than he would have missed its wearer. George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians Her hands were folded in the voluminous sweep of her crinoline; the ribbons at her breast rose and fell softly. The Three Black Pennys A Novel The voluminous and beruffled skirts of the period, and that feminine monstrosity of the day, the wide spreading crinoline, she had left far behind her at the Missouri River. The Way of a Man Tea-poys, light chairs, fragile vases have been undisturbed by crinoline even. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 But if I sent one shorter of stature and uglier of visage and with less art in approaching a crinoline—why, perhaps he would get no farther than her door. 54-40 or Fight A shake of the head too quickly and the coiffure was imperilled; the movements that came within the prescribed circle of dignity within the circle of the crinoline were all of a rhythmical order. George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians Their dresses were largely similar—Amity's a dun, Gilda Penny's grey, moire silk, high with a tight lace collar, and bands of jet trimming from shoulder to waist, there spreading over crinoline to the floor. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Can't you see the elderly lady in a huge crinoline and a black poke bonnet, and the wizard in a ridiculous hat, a bottle-green frock-coat, and a flowing tie of black silk?' The Magician He is capable of penning a canto to a crinoline, and has a pathetic monody on a mackintosh. Reviews What has he ever been able to learn about them in the salons; could he see through the corset and the crinoline? Over Strand and Field 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. George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians Observe the amazing rudeness of the design, and note the modern waist and crinoline. Custom and Myth It was proposed to call forth the phantom of the divine Apollonius, and to question it upon two matters, one of which concerned Eliphas Levi and the other, the lady of the crinoline. The Magician Of the two ladies, one, even in despite of her crinoline, might have been seen to be of noble and queenly figure; the towering head-dress did not fully disguise the wealth of red-bronze hair. The Mississippi Bubble In the first act Marie Antoinette, in the apothéose of her glory, wore voluminous skirts and crinoline, according to the famous picture. The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 Once they began to have opinions about that matter they soon sent the crinoline on its way. George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians It was Sunday, and the population appeared in its best clothing, a few of the women sporting crinoline, and all wearing their best calicoes. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Before we appreciate Tennyson’s real place in literature, we must frankly recognize the fact that his muse wore a crinoline. The Art of Letters This leads to excesses and follies such as tight waists, high-heeled shoes, to the ungainly crinoline or to indecent scantiness of skirts. Youth and Sex He sat down in the drawing-room in silence, and taking an album from the table, began attentively scrutinising the faded photographs of unknown men in full trousers and top-hats, and ladies in crinolines and caps. The Duel and Other Stories When the crinoline went out the train came in; so that though woman had allowed herself more freedom, man could only walk behind her at a respectful distance with a ceremonial measure of pace. George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians She was dressed in a costume of which crinoline, silk, and ribbons were component parts, contrasting sharply with the coarse garments of the peasant women. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Ladies were requested to come without crinoline, thereby providing a hundred more seats than at the first event. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians "Oh, well, you know," said Hamilton, who was tired of the conversation, "like a crinoline it can always be broken." The Conqueror It came up here half built—that is, the frame was partly put together elsewhere—and it resembled a huge crinoline more than anything else in its original state. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 The orb of its belly distends and stretches its shirt like a crinoline, and shortens it. Light And his trousers, by-the-by—though they have nothing to do with his triumphs—were a most horrible yellow plaid, such as they made when our fathers wore side-whiskers and there were crinolines in the land. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents The lustre hanging from the ceiling, which is known in Germany as a "Kronleuchter" was in the form of an old crinoline. The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) Dwellers in huts and in marble halls— From Shepherdess up to Queen— Cared little for bonnets, and less for shawls, And nothing for crinoline. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations A respectable elderly woman stooping forward, invested in crinoline, exposes quite as much of her own person to the patient lying in the room as any opera dancer does on the stage. Notes on Nursing What It Is, and What It Is Not Fine gowns of inconvenient length, expanded over large crinolines—silk mantles richly trimmed,—often conceal the coarsest, scantiest, and most ragged underclothing. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette To-day, she has come down to the sand, where, with base distended, as if in caricature of crinoline, she perambulates the crowded thoroughfare. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 But the real pièce de résistance was a mass of pretty well developed crinoline which an informal walk in the infested district brought to light, engaged in a systematic raid upon the tempting fruit. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 If Aaron's toggery needed one portion of the spirit of wisdom from Jehovah, how many portions does the Empress Eugenie's best crinoline need? Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed I wish, too, that people who wear crinoline could see the indecency of their own dress as other people see it. Notes on Nursing What It Is, and What It Is Not Contrast it with the dress of our servant-girls, with their crinoline and absurd little bonnets, and say which is the best taste. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette She turned lightly and went into the back parlour, smiling mysteriously to herself, her vast, pale-blue crinoline rustling against the furniture. Ailsa Paige Anna, with that art of the day which remains a wonder yet, gathered her crinoline about her feet and twisted through and out upon the ladder. Kincaid's Battery She had on a crinoline sort of dress, a deep lace collar, spring-sidey sort of boots, mittens, and a huge cameo brooch. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life "Don't give Alice so much crinoline," he would write, or "The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old"—such were the directions he was constantly giving. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Would it not be wiser to discard the crinoline altogether till the day's work is done, and the servants make themselves tidy for their tea and their evening recreation. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette Words clothe thought; poetic diction had the artifice of the crinoline; it would stand by itself. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge She has a short waist, long skirt sans crinoline, leg-of-mutton sleeves, lofty bearing, and stands like Ariadne on an island of pedestal size, surrounded by two or more pre-Raphaelite trees. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Then there came a laugh and a shout and some crinoline against the forward open corner of the coach, and Ginevra Thoresby was by the driver's side. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. Letter from Paris on the crinoline.—Expedition sails from Liverpool.— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II We remember at this moment an exceedingly effective costume, made of white alpaca with a narrow green stripe, which was worn with a crinoline bonnet trimmed with mauve. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette Down by the Docks, the daughters of wave-ruling Britannia also rove, clad in silken attire, with uncovered tresses streaming in the breeze, bandanna kerchiefs floating from their shoulders, and crinoline not wanting. The Uncommercial Traveller Of Shakespeare it may be said he was the first to see the dramatic value of doublets, and that a climax may depend on a crinoline. Intentions They were standing in front of Jenkins', the draper's; and my aunt thinks that it—the crinoline—must have got caught up in something, and an opening thus left between it and the ground. Evergreens But so it is; it is the age of crinoline…. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II From 2-1/2 to 3 feet is a fair calculation for each person, especially since the dimensions of crinolines is lessened; but no more should be allowed. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette He talked of pink and pig-skin breeches, of foxes at Ring's Bottom, where now the County Council pauper lunatics were enclosed, of Lady Bone's chintzes and crinolines. The War in the Air Hogg publishes a report describing a young lady who injured her leg with the broken steel of her crinoline. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine But whichever way he charged; there was the crinoline in front of him. Evergreens The reign of crinoline amplitude is not only not removed, but is more dominant than ever. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II Perchance this is true, for men who do great deeds are goaded thereto, not by the swish of crinoline, but by the immortal gods. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 But," says the critic, "what then of the clairvoyant descriptions, or the visions where the aged father is seen, clad in the old-fashioned garments of another age, or the grandmother with crinoline and chignon? The Vital Message Amongst them, I remarked some women, dressed from the hips to knees in quite a crinoline of herbs, that sustained a vegetable waistband. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea As he flew, he, of course, carried it before him, and with the crinoline, of course, went my aunt. Evergreens Letter from Paris on the crinoline.—Expedition sails from Liverpool.— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II Already," said one, "our khaki seems as old-fashioned as a crinoline. The Happy Foreigner Now, however, she has grown weary of offering up her fatted calves at the shrine of a prodigal New-York audience, and desires to hide the lightness of her legs under a bustle and crinoline. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 Did you notice," the former volunteered, "mother is letting Camilla have lots of starch in her petticoats, so that they stand right out like crinoline? Java Head Nobody had seen the dog creep inside the crinoline. Evergreens He saluted an elderly lady wearing a bonnet and mantle of primeval cut, and a dress so ample in the skirt that it still suggested the days of crinoline. Delia Blanchflower All the building seemed to know of the crinoline that was being made in the kitchen. The Happy Foreigner It's quite out of date, of course; but it reminds me of Mrs. Henry Wood and crinolines and woolwork, and all that sort of thing. An Amiable Charlatan If you were a Raffaelle in glacé silk and crinoline, you would tell me no more than that. The Lovels of Arden Princess gowns stiffened their shawl and crinoline gestures. Mary Olivier: a Life When she arched her back and stuck her stomach out she felt like a tall lady in a crinoline and shawl. Life and Death of Harriett Frean The crinoline which they were preparing lay in white rags upon the table. The Happy Foreigner There burst in a lady with a wide extent of crinoline, but that was not the worst of the bustle. The Channings On entering the shop, the visitor is amused by finding a lot of little urchins occupied in making ladies' hoopskirts of the latest fashionable design; nearly 100 are engaged in the crinoline department. The Secrets of the Great City Mrs. Waugh came on, buoyantly, as if the hoop of a crinoline still held her up. Mary Olivier: a Life They then wear a fine black merino skirt, made very full, and the inevitable petticoats, which make the skirt stand out like a crinoline. Dutch Life in Town and Country There was a portentous standing-lamp, six feet high in its bare feet, with a shade like a crinoline. From One Generation to Another By Jove, what a face! what hands! what feet! what a figure—in spite of crinolines and all abominations! Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography George Meredith belonged to the early Victorian period which had encased its head in a huge bonnet and girdled its loins with a stiff crinoline. Impressions and Comments She stood on a strip of carpet, supported by the hoops of her crinoline; her black lace shawl made a pattern on the light gown. Mary Olivier: a Life Good God, Doris, if you were to wear a crinoline I should love you beyond hope of repentance. Memoirs of My Dead Life They turned over a variety of crinolines, farthingales, bustles and wigs, laying on one side the articles of silver, bronze and porcelain—for the Tartars were coming after dinner. Tales of the Wilderness It was wonderful to see into how small dimensions the Misses Neverbend had contrived to pack, not themselves, but their crinoline. The Three Clerks But no greater force was presumed to be required of them than pressing aside a too discursive crinoline. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 In another minute Aunt Charlotte would come in, dressed in her black lace shawl and crinoline, and Aunt Lavvy would bring her Opinions. Mary Olivier: a Life If it be no post-chaise, at all events ladies wearing crinolines have sat inside it, that is certain, and gentlemen wearing peg-top trousers with braid upon them. Memoirs of My Dead Life This was the period when the broadening of gauge in crinolines seemed to demand an agitation for the general enlargement of churches, ball-rooms, and vehicles. Daniel Deronda We must have the spaces round our altars greatly widened if this passion for bevies of attendant nymphs be allowed to go on increasing—and if crinolines increase also. The Three Clerks Each lady showed to great advantage, as, on account of the width of their crinolines, they had to stand very far apart. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters The gentlemen made cross faces at somebody who wasn't there; the ladies hung their heads and looked down at their crinolines. Mary Olivier: a Life "We might have searched the town for a crinoline and a pair of white stockings." Memoirs of My Dead Life Still coarser and stronger fabrics are prepared for the European market, such as crinoline and stiff muslin used by dressmakers. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes The coloured women wandered about, in showy prints, great crinolines, and gorgeous turbans. At Last The result is as nearly as possible the opposite to the effect produced by a crinoline. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin Though, personally, I think all that sort of thing went out of fashion with our great-grandmother's hoops, and crinolines. The Money Moon A Romance Doris thought of how she would look in a crinoline, and I remembered the illustrations in an early edition of Balzac of which I am the happy possessor. Memoirs of My Dead Life This exclamation came from Terrence Malone, who, bareheaded and in shirt sleeves, was rushing through the throng of people on the street in reckless disregard of high hats and crinoline. Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established Even in dress the artistic disorder was visible; some cast aside crinoline altogether, and stalked about with a severe simplicity of outline worthy of Flaxman. Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories The ladies were in blue dresses; a good deal of crinoline, deep flounces, high necks, very short, flowing sleeves, and short undersleeves; the dresses were brocade and the flounces much trimmed, madame's with white plush. Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals The comic lady now came on; there were shrieks of laughter at her unnecessary and irrelevant green boots and crinoline and Cockney accent. Tenterhooks Our mothers and fathers wore the crinolines and the peg-top trousers, and our grandfathers the tight trousers and the black silk stocks. Memoirs of My Dead Life A warning against extravagance, however, is given to the consultant by the crinoline, which appears amidst these signs of future wealth. Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves She was one of them from that time forth and the reign of crinoline was over. Sleeping Fires: a Novel Each one was covered with a mantle of brocaded silk arranged upon a crinoline form to give the effect somewhat of the curved expansion on the rim of a bell. The Prince of India — Volume 01 Fortunately for them, preposterous crinolines are out of fashion: when they were in fashion, death from burning was of every-day occurrence; indeed, lady-burning was then to be considered one of the institutions of our land! Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children They were beautiful little rooms, though ladies in full crinoline might have been somewhat perplexed at their contracted dimensions. Haste and Waste; Or, the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain. a Story for Young People The middle of the piazza was filled with little tables, with shouting mountebanks, mostly disguised in battered bonnets and crinolines, offering chances in raffles for plucked fowls and kerosene lamps. Italian Hours Upon her head rested a huge felt hat of the "Merry Widow" order, and encircling it was a veil of some sort of stiff material, more like crinoline than crape. Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home It changes; drapes her ankles—the nineties; then it amplifies—the seventies; now it's burnished red and stretched above a crinoline—the sixties; a tiny black foot wearing a white cotton stocking peeps out. Jacob's Room Children are frequently dressed like mountebanks, with feathers and furbelows and finery; the boys go bare-legged; the little girls are dressed like women, with their stuck-out petticoats, crinolines, and low dresses! Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children It was not easy to right a capsized crinoline. The Old Wives' Tale "She never wore ringlets and crinolines!" he had answered. Sisters "True, and the number of deaths in England caused by the crinoline alone numbers 72." The Life of Sir Richard Burton To see the contortions of her crinolines was the delight of all the grammar school. Nuttie's Father Mary wore a pale pink cotton gown which, over the light swellings of her crinoline, bulged and billowed round her, and generously swept the ground. Australia Felix But now the shapeliness had gone; the waist-line no longer existed, and there were no more crinolines to create it artificially. The Old Wives' Tale Even those years ago, when we used to tease him about the lady with the crinolines and ringlets, it was she. Sisters At last, Aubrey, who was foremost, pushed up the trap-door, and emerged; but, as Dickie followed him, exclaimed, 'Here we are; but you ladies in crinolines will never follow! The Trial If crinolines had not been gone out they could have all been dressed appropriately. Nuttie's Father Everybody talked at once and laughed or wept; while the children played hide-and-seek round the ladies' crinolines. Australia Felix The waist was higher than any she had had before, and the crinoline expansive. The Old Wives' Tale The post-office deals in general commodities—in boots and bacon, biscuits and flannel, crinoline petticoats and religious tracts. Poor Miss Finch Over the great crinoline the ladies wore the richest silks, adorned with silver and gold lace; they had had their hair dressed and decorated with flowers and ribbons, and carried elegant fans in their hands. Marie Antoinette and Her Son Hitherto their crinoline petticoats, late hours, and mincing gait had been a fair subject of Mrs. Greenacre's raillery, and this raillery had been a safety-valve for her envy. Barchester Towers "It wouldn't be such a bad catch, after all," soliloquized Afy, as she and her crinoline swayed along. East Lynne Sophia, in her modestly stylish black, mechanically noticed how much easier it was for attired women to sit in a carriage now that crinolines had gone. The Old Wives' Tale The child rose, laid down the magazine, which was open at the colored picture of a group of ladies in crinoline and chignons, and, going across the room, extended a hand to Mr. Tidditt. Cy Whittaker's Place But if crinolines, for instance, are likely to come in again! Idle Ideas in 1905 Such a compression of crinoline was never seen as at that moment, when periphery pressed upon periphery, and held many a man captive in the cold embrace of steel and whalebone. Eben Holden, a tale of the north country The next one to turn up was a kind of crinoline. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan The crinoline had not quite reached its full circumference, and the dress-improver had not even been thought of. The Old Wives' Tale And you too?" she suddenly saw the landlady, "and you too, sausage eater, you declare that she is a thief, you trashy Prussian hen's leg in a crinoline! Crime and Punishment She was very earnest, and she had a pleading way of calling out: 'O, but aren't you teasing me?' which would have brought a tiger fawning to her crinoline. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments I thought she looked lovelier in her pretty blue morning gown, covering a broad expanse of crinoline, than ever before. Eben Holden, a tale of the north country He went off the pavement to make room for their tyrannical crinolines, and passed unnoticed. Put Yourself in His Place She was so distraught that she could not manage her crinoline in the doorway. The Old Wives' Tale She was dressed up in a crinoline, a mantle and a straw hat with a flame-coloured feather in it, all very old and shabby. Crime and Punishment Hitherto their crinoline petticoats, late hours, and mincing gait had been a fair subject of Mrs Greenacre's raillery, and this raillery had been a safety valve for her envy. Barchester Towers Consequently, you see much of crinoline and little of character. Gala-days Papa was much amused when I appeared in crinoline, my 'hoops' having been squeezed into the saddle-bags and brought with me. Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee He said the patient's brain might be irritable for some days, and no women in silk dresses or crinoline, or creaking shoes, must enter the room. A Simpleton The men in peg-top trousers and silk stocks, the women in crinolines and poke bonnets. All Roads Lead to Calvary I remember that the Baroness was clad in a voluminous silk dress, pale grey in colour, and adorned with flounces and a crinoline and train. The Gambler There came along a gigantic female figure, seven feet high, at least, and taking up a third of the street's breadth with the preposterously swelling sphere of her crinoline skirts. The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni And the protrusion that had seemed to be that of a wind-blown crinoline was caused, I thought, by the king having his left hand thrust well out to grasp the hilt of his inclined sword. And Even Now He could make bookshelves out of kitchen tables, and crossbows out of crinolines. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow The wife, who was cooking, was a very pretty, pale young woman, who, however, could have circulated round her stove more conveniently had her crinoline been of less dimensions. North America — Volume 1 "But suppose, grand-papa"—and, seeing in fancy the vast agitated flotilla of crinolines, she could not forbear a smile—"suppose all the young ladies of that period had drowned themselves for love of you?" Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story March had one of his vague visions of ladies in cloudy crinolines and gentlemen in outlandish hats and whiskers revisiting that lost garden like ghosts. The Man Who Knew Too Much By a slight shoreward lift of crinoline, as against the seaward protrusion of poke bonnet, a grotesque balance was given to the unshapely shape of her. And Even Now |
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