For the first time I craved a crinoline: my legs were chilly in shorts, and though the sky was cloudless, the rising sun would take time to warm my path.
By contrast, the belly button of Miss Jemima Morrell remained modestly covered beneath a stiff crinoline throughout her own package holiday.
The gown that prompted Versace's quip featured a bodice of embroidered tiny crystals custom made by Swarovski for the house and metres of creamy-brown duchesse satin backed with crinoline to give volume.
By analogy, his son Mitt's bid for the presidency has been more of a crinoline: long and cumbersome.The younger Mr Romney has been running for president for six years at least, since the waning days of his governorship of Massachusetts.
Clothing is about many things, such as protection from the elements, or functionality which is why Amelia Jenks Bloomer, an American suffragette, protested in the 1850s against the ludicrously impractical crinoline petticoat and in favour of trousers (hence "bloomers").
The crinoline was generally out of fashion by 1878.
The swing of a crinoline by Leech and the curl of a cabdriver's hat brim by Keene were perfect selective imitation, themselves almost inimitable; the crinoline and the hat are gone with those who knew how to wear them, but the picture in Punch remains.
The range of affordable casuals produced in black, white, and grey included T-shirts, leggings, and minis as well as special "wow" items, such as studded leather jackets and crinoline dresses.
He composed two operas, Judith (produced 1929) and Don Juan de Mañara (1937); a ballet, L'École en crinoline (1921); two symphonies; songs; and pieces for piano, cello, and violin.
A Daumier lithograph showing a very fat woman in a crinoline climbing into an omnibus bore no dialogue, but simply the caption, "A mere nothing, and the bus is full".
