People, especially women, have often put their liv...  ...s fashions from Chinese foot-binding to flammable crinolines . Many women have heard the old adage, “On...

Women's fashions in the 19th century went through...  ...y could make a woman look the way she should. The crinolines of the Civil War era didn't really work in cities...

Oscar Wilde’s father William had six children; three with his wife Jane (including Oscar) and three older children born out of wedlock to two different women. The older children were raised by William Wilde’s...

There was a time when fashionable ladies knew how...  ...nto a room -by taking up all the room! The era of crinolines meant difficulty squeezing through doorways, gett...  ...ids on ladders lower a dress onto a woman and her crinoline .The name is a combination word of "crin" —...  ...en." But it wasn't th...