crinolines

• “When we were there in April it was of the crinolines from the Second Empire.”

  What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day

• “I think many women these days think that dressing up is hot and uncomfortable because the last time they wore a nice dress was while their mothers still put them in crinolines and tights.”

  A Beautiful Life

• “A shower of gold paper rained down on the crowd, a couple of absailers dressed like the guys from Mission Impossible descended from the ceiling and unfurled a huge banner, balloons cascaded, a hoard of girls dressed in crinolines performed a (somewhat tacky - sorry, but then I love tacky) musical number while waving books around.”

  MPH Celebrates Its Big Birthday

• “To see the contortions of her crinolines was the delight of all the grammar school.”

  Nuttie's Father

• “crinolines," but how about the other men and _matériel_ between decks?”

  Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891

• “Models in kabuki makeup, wearing gold-sequined platform boots, turquoise pom-pom earrings and mini Marie Antoinette crinolines bounced down the narrow white runway to the tune of Handel's music performed by Kaleidoskop, a Berlin soloist ensemble conducted by Olof Boman.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Semele Walk' Designer Costumes Stun

• “Nearly frantic, the mother went in and bought Mrs. Leiber crinolines and petticoats.”

  Fictionaut: Still Life, With Girl

• “Bygone eras of corsets, crinolines, explosions of lace, feathers, silks, satins, glinting jewels--all gilded to a state of heightened beauty and sartorial elegance.”

  The Huffington Post: Bill Bush: The Art of Giving: This Artweek.LA (December 12-18, 2011)

• “For an outside broadcast from Woburn Abbey, she was dressed in period crinolines, with a battery-operated radio microphone underneath.”

  The Guardian: Mary Malcolm obituary

• “Morton's bravura performance, recorded over several sessions in 1938, unspooled in to quote Lomax's memorable description "a gravel voice melting at the edges, not talking, each sentence bowling along like a line from the blues, like an eddy of a big sleepy southern river, weaving a legend, and as the legend grew, the back seat of the hall filled with ghost of ladies in crinolines, listening.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Catcher of Songs

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