#crinoline

[feralchaton]

désordre | mirror palais collection

[danni-gurrl]

Loving this beautiful dress from @dryndelicate

It’s so lovely, in soft satin with a beautiful pattern and puffy skirt making me feel like a princess. 💜💜💋💋

[vintagefashionplates]

(via Doba korzetů a honzíků - EMMA RIEDOVÁ)

[pastlivesfinery]

Les Modes Parisiennes, 1865 🤍

[bridalport]

https://bridalport.com/products/white-petticoat-for-costumes-and-bridal-gowns

[doo-wop-city]

Here is Part 1 of Stella Star's visit to a Gentilini car show in 1971.

[a-more-poofy-world]

Here we see a young woman being fitted in her new dress at the tailor. Her dress is definitely the latest fashion during this era as indicated by its very large 7ft diameter! With a dress like that she will definitely be the talk of the neighborhood!!!!

It's interesting to note the dress that the tailor is wearing. Though it's hard to see behind the massive skirt she is working on, she is wearing a skirt that is only 3 ft wide! How strange you you may think, skirts that small have been out of fashion for more than 100 years! Most women would be humiliated to be seen in a skirt that small. However this is a special circumstance. This is a work outfit that she wears only because it would be nearly impossible to hem such a large dress while wearing an equally large skirt herself!

Skirts that small would only be worn in situations like this and she would change into a more properly sized skirt as soon as she Is finished with the adjustments. In fact she will probably be back in a dress not much smaller than her clients before she leaves the store with her new dress!

[femmepathy]

Sarony, 37 Union Sqr., N.Y., 1893

[ai-satin-chic]

"I'm not sure it's going to fit".

[theebonswan]

Silk Taffeta Three-Piece Evening Dress, ca. [late] 1860s

Tan silk taffeta evening dress with bright pink taffeta accents, box neckline, front pointed waist, and full circular skirt with detachable pink taffeta belt. Unlabeled Mary D. Doering Archive No.: DRW.133.1860ABC

Approximate Measurements:

BODICE Shoulders: 14" Chest: 33" Waist: 22.5" Length (underarm to hem): 6.5" Sleeve (center back neck to hem): 27.5"

SKIRT Waist: 22" Hips: 56" Length (side waist band to hem): 46" Belt Length: 16.5" Belt Width (waist): 22" Property of Mary D. Doering, Falls Church, Virginia

Hindman Auctions

[danni-gurrl]

@ai-satin-chic creates wonderful images with some of the best dresses and maids uniforms. Here is my attempt at trying to recreate one of them. Posted with his permission.

[sd-chicklit]

[pastlivesfinery]

Ca. 1864

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Red Wool Cage Crinoline, 1860-1865, British.

Victoria and Albert Museum.

[a-more-poofy-world]

Poofy flight :1965

Here we see a photo from the 1960s of women sitting on a very crowded plane!!!

In the 1960s most women’s flying dresses were still “ small” enough than that two women could sit in a row with three seats on a plane. The women in the aisle seats skirts would flow out, and fill up most of the aisle on the plane! Imagine the poor flight attendants trying to walk down that aisle, wearing their own 5 foot wide skirts!!! It would be quite the tight squeeze! By the time the plane is fully boarded, you probably wouldn’t be able to see from end to the other!!! It would all just be filled with squished skirts, hoops, and petticoats! And the poor men even on planes where the men sit on one side would still probably not be able to avoid having hoops and petticoats shoved in their faces when a passenger or flight attendant walk down the aisle! Though most men wouldn’t complain as I’m sure they would quite enjoy the show!!! besides getting bumped in the face by a hoop skirt is considered quite good luck!!!

[doo-wop-city]

The Black Cadillac and the Pink Cadillac

A black Cadillac El Dorado and a Pink Cadillac diner: what can be more elegant? Only the same scene with Stella Star! These photos were taken on September 22nd, 1967. (…Or, was that 2023?) On the corner of Garfield and Atlantic Avenues, nestled cozily next to Quebec Motel, Pink Cadillac’s checkerboard tiling is a perfect accent to the sleek black Cadillac parked before its entrance. Stella…