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The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical

Crinoline in 1744.

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Addison, who wrote a good deal about female fashions in the "Spectator," very much ridiculed the hoop-petticoat, which was so large, about the year 1744, that a woman wearing one occupied the space of six men.

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