File:Crinoline-joke-staged-photo-sequence-ca1860.jpg

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Description A caricature sequence of posed joke photographs from 1857(?), showing five stages of putting on a crinoline
Date by 1857
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In the book "Crinoline: Fashion's Most Magnificent Disaster" by Denis Pellerin and Brian May, it's said that four of these five images were advertised in London in 1857 as a series "Mysteries of the Crinoline".
See also http://mashable.com/2015/06/21/crinolinemania-victorian-fashion/
The fourth photo in sequence is included in The Encyclopedia of Fashion by Georgina O'Hara (ISBN 0-8109-0882-4).

A differently-cropped version of the first photo in the sequence is included in Royal Style by Luise Wackerl (ISBN 978-3-7913-4635-9)
Author by French photographer Sirot? or unknown
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