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PRE-TWENTIETH CENTURY AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
PETTICOATS, CRINOLINES, HOOPS AND PANNIERS

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Although Anna Held is best known for her small waist, the Era in which she lived encouraged
petti-display as well.

from Dave M.

Heatherbloom Taffeta Petticoats

        

  

        
(above left) Ethel Barrymore   (center) A Madame Mimi, 1890   (right) Kate Vaughan (1852-1903)

 

 

Saharet, early twentieth century Australian dancer

Courtesy Misha

 

 

Gibson Girl

from Dolletteau

Definition:  The American young woman of the 1890s
as idealized in sketches by the American illustrator Charles Dana Gibson
(1867–1944)


 

  

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