Though described as a robe de bal à crinoline, the relative narrowness of the skirts would hardly allow for the sort of expansive potential that the description promises. That is to say, it would seem that neither the horsehair fabric petticoats that began to be seen at the end of the 1830s and were soon dubbed "crinolines," nor the cage crinoline/hoop skirt that only appeared in the middle of the 1850s, would actually fit.
In the collection of the Musée Mode & Dentelle in Brussels.
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