Crinolines put the hoop in the Victorian-era skirt. For two decades, women wore crinolines - lightweight cages attached to their waists - under their clothing to create a wide, bell-shaped silhouette.

The look was most reminiscent of Victorian-Edwardian era fashion when ‘18-inch waists’ were all the rage. In the Victorian and Edwardian Eras (1837-1901 and 1901–1910), fashion idolised tiny ...