The cage crinoline of the 1850s and 1860s as a fashion undergarment was essentially a descendant of the paniers (pocket hoops) and court hoops of the eighteenth century - think the dresses of Marie Antoinette, or of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire whose life was adapted into the 2008 film The Duchess
[Source: The Private Life of the Romans by Harold Whetstone Johnston, Revised by Mary Johnston, Scott, Foresman and Company (1903, 1932) |+|] Contact with the Greeks on the south and perhaps the Etruscans on the north gave the Romans a taste for the beautiful that found expression in the graceful arrangement of their loosely flowing robes
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