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 ...

PETTICOATS, also known as underskirts, were first introduced at the end of the 16th century. They were worn by women who wanted to have the current fashionable shape created by their own clothing. A ...

Fashion changes very quickly. What's "in" today will probably be out tomorrow. Fashions can return, sometimes slightly altered, sometimes exactly the same. Fashion trends such as jeans, animal prints, ...

Rock star Brian May's company, The London Stereoscopic Company (LSC), is partnering with the V&A to produce a book for its upcoming exhibit, Undressed: 350 Years of Underwear Fashion. Crinoline: ...

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind wearing a voluminous crinoline dress What does Scarlett O’Hara, of the 1939 movie Gone With The Wind, and ladies of Punjab have in common? They ...

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 ...