I HAVE a scrapbook, begun in 1881, to which a page of the current fashions has been added once a year ever since. A rummaging in the garret brought to light old numbers of the Englishwoman and Godey’s ...

Smile, Smile, Smile (Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag); Pretty Baby; Just Like A Butterfly (That's Caught In The Rain); Floatin' Down To Cotton Town; My Wild Irish Rose; Let It Rain, Let It ...

Each year hundreds of words are added to the English language. New words with new usages add to our language. That being said, words are also dropped from use. One of those words that I am sure most ...

The bustle replaced the crinoline as women's underpinnings of choice in the 19th century. Grands Magasins du Louvre, 1877/Wikimedia Commons Victorian fashionistas were in search of an ideal silhouette ...

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In today’s world, it’s difficult to imagine anyone wanting to wear something as cumbersome as a crinoline as part of their everyday wardrobe. In Victorian times, up to the 1860s, it was the height of ...

Simply sign up to the Fashion myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The word crinoline typically conjures up an image of a vast, spreading, mid-19th century skirt. Think of Franz Xaver ...