1. Structured Beauties: Evolution of the Crinoline
Presentation by Emily Bach
Maryland Historical Society
Gift of Dr. James Bordley Jr.

2. Origins: Farthingales
Left: Spanish Farthingales
Right: French Farthingales
“The Vanity of Women: Masks and Bustles”
The Netherlands, ca. 1600
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pedro Garcia de Benabarre
“Herod’s Banquet” (Detail)
Spain, ca. 1470
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

3. Wheel or Barrel Farthingale
Hip Platter or Farthingale of the Royal Effigy of Queen Elizabeth I
1603
Dean and Chapter of Westminster, London
“Queen Elizabeth I” by Marcus Geeraerts the Younger
Oil on Canvas, circa 1592
NPG 2561
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London

4. Panniers Example of early-18th century panniers. Court Dress
“Market for Panniers and Hoops set up by Proclamation favoring fashionable girls and Women Made in 1719”
Collection de l’Histoire de France, année 1719, vol. 53
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Qb1 (1719) – fol.
Court Dress
Courtesy of the Costume Institute of the Met
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Ca. 1750

5. 1760s “Pocket Hoops” Left Image: 1954.38.06
Maryland Historical Society
Gift of Mrs. James Bordley Jr.
Ca. 1760s
Right Image:
Courtesy of the Costume Institute of the Met
Ca. 1760
British
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6. Journal des Luxus
1797
Plate Number 31
Costume Parisien
1798
Plate Number 28
Costume Parisien
1810
Plate Number 1102

7.
Maryland Historical Society
Gift of R. McGill MacKall

8. Metal Hinges

9. Depictions of the Crinoline
“A Pardonable Mistake”
By Honoré Daumier
“A Lady Saved from Drowning by her Crinoline”
Frank Leslie’s Weekly
January 19, 1867
“Home Incidents, Accidents, &c.”
“The Reign of Crinoline” Ca
Musée des Civilisations de l”europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseilles, D

10. Various examples of bustles.
House of Lanvin
Fall/Winter 1926
Gift of Costume Institute of the Met
Example of Dior’s “New Look,” a style he introduced in 1947.