Wide skirts were all the rage among Victorians — but the extremely flammable nature of crinolines meant that women routinely burned alive while wearing them. Mustang media AB/Heritage Images via Getty ImagesWomen wearing wide crinoline skirts in the 1850s. They say pain is beauty. But for many Victorian women, beauty […]
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Victorian fashion history influences modern textile artist
Alessia Sushko in Summary of Recollections and Andre Ornish wears ‘attorney Lamb stares down a ruffian’ at the Petiti Palais in Paris. (Photograph by Sharon Avraham) Mary Ornish introduced a lecture, “Tattered Splendor,” at The Gaslamp Quarter Historical Basis in the Gaslamp Museum at the Davis-Horton Property on Jan. 18. […]