crinolined

But it was not only the women of England, with their crinolined frailties, who needed to be shielded from the details.

Thus, a woman's petticoated or crinolined skirt would lose its shape during everyday wear (from merely sitting down or moving about).

Yanto could imagine crinolined children playing with their nanny on this lawn in more sane and settled times, when Britannia ruled the world.

There are even humorous cards and genres depicting nostalgic scenes of the past such as crinolined shoppers in idealized 19th century streetscapes.

Consequently, some young women wore voluminous crinolined infanta dresses reminiscent of quinceañera parties, the celebrations given in Hispanic communities for 15-year-old girls.

Montana used to be considered a futurist, but he looked back to the 1950's for bouffant crinolined party dresses that he chopped off at mid thigh.

Wilson never considered needlework an elite occupation, recalling that, aged about six, she had experimentally stitched a crinolined lady, with yarn stolen from an aunt.

At City Hall, the mayor attempted a second speech to a small, grim crowd of elderly white men and hot-eyed crinolined women but Chase, politely, cut him short.

He was pensively turning one of the pieces in his hand, a crinolined woman wearing a beribboned bonnet languidly weeding a gulden path with a slender hoe.

Amidst the 'garotting' agitations of 1862, however, those who were discontented with crinolined philanthropy and magnanimous justice discovered a much more amenable slogan around which to marshal their energies.

But even when the children of a successful emancipist achieved such Olympian heights, their flawed lineage remained and the whispers of the crinolined society matrons would continue for the next two generations.

After another interlude of dancing by older villagers, the girls appear again, this time shimmying and cavorting with manic grins, wearing crinolined carnival dresses and four-foot sparkly headdresses.

His high point, however, came in the form of crinolined hoop skirts, which were striking for their vastness, though he cut some of them too long, and as a result made the models stumble.

A folding screen in the alcove under the stairs seems the handiwork of a Victorian nurserymaid gone mad, with coloured transfers of art nouveau sprites, screaming Medusa heads and crinolined paper dolls.

Maria Friedman - kitted out in a crinolined ballgown that looks like a golden tent - sings immaculately and suggests a growing affection for Daniel Dae Kim's admirably burly, intransigent monarch.

In "The Way of the World," she was a crinolined comic figure, swooping about the stage in a fit of near-hysterical distraction before altering the mood with a shift in her tone of voice.

And then the crowds of crinolined ladies with their escorts had moved into the interior of the store, eager to drink the champagne that Emily had insisted upon and to look at and touch the merchandise.

Beneath the gaslit crystal chandeliers, the diplomatic corps were lined up to the right of the entrance, gold and silver braid glittering, while, to the left, were the military and the politicians and the crinolined ladies in all their jewels.

I remember my friends swirling in their crinolined dresses, how they looked in the light of the candles Mother set out, how they swayed to the sound of WINS on the first portable battery-operated radio in the neighborhood.

The sexual chemistry between Chook Sibtain's autocratic king and Janie Dee's awfully sensible crinolined governess comes far too late in the action to be more than a postscript, and the subplot of Tuptim's doomed love affair is never sufficiently developed.

From her crinolined dresses and flip wigs ("and always, always , a slash of black cake eyeliner") to her "bachelorette pad" with its hot-pink fake-fur sofa and aluminum-leg coffee table, Tara Solomon is in major denial that the 90's are even happening.

Crinolined skirts belled like blossoms across the floor above the glitter of high heels, but it was only a matter of a few minutes before the shoes were kicked off, to toe in together forlornly under a chair or dangle from some motherly forefinger while unprotected toes braved the brogans of the boys.

To be tutored by this ageing and doubtfully French dancing master is a prime requisite among the crinolined society and Mary knows she cannot complete her granddaughter's admittedly crammed social education without a knowledge of all the steps in the latest dances practised in the salons of London and Paris.

The moral vocabulary of these accusations against sentimentality, leniency and crinolined philanthropy that unfolded in the wake of the great legislative transformations of this era is one which we would find entirely familiar in our own historical time, and which has rolled down to us virtually unchanged across more than a century of resistance to penal reform.