CRINOLINE REAPPEARS.
REVIVAL OF THE VICTORIAN HOOP SKTPT THIS WINTER.
LONDON, September 1. The* crinoline skirt, banished since tho slays of our grandmothers, is now delinitely coming into vogue^ again. Tho tHentiet.li century'erincline is fitted into tho bottom of the modern tight skirt.-sso r.,s to hold out firmly the now niching, which is the main feature of t!i(( Intent fashion. The crinoline indeed will spread around the feet of it; wearer, :is though she were standinof'in the- midst of a soft, fluffy nest.
They now crinoline Js a reformed chnractc\r. Vlovoid of the stiff tiglinrss of its early Victrrian anoc-stor. 'It hasnone of its ■bid-time- pomp and. circumference- of 20ft.—so far. It is a modest, ill most timid revival, measurtng a mero two y:'.rds around' the I^t-tom— ibuty. it is •rumoured,- it will g''ow!
Worn in Bond-street on Wednesday, tho .now ci-inaline skirt created a sen.intKMi arid genui'ie admiration.. None ofj+ho passers-hy could resist the temptafie:i tr> tmn and look at the grace-. ,fill! crinoline. For n first appearance
i.v wfiSi a genuine success
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12824, 16 October 1911, Page 8
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174CRINOLINE REAPPEARS. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12824, 16 October 1911, Page 8
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