I'm not at all sure we shan't go back to crinolines and pegtops.
But now the shapeliness had gone; the waist-line no longer existed, and there were no more crinolines to create it artificially.
Sophia, in her modestly stylish black, mechanically noticed how much easier it was for attired women to sit in a carriage now that crinolines had gone.
Even crinolines went out at last, after the beauty of a whole generation had been spoiled by them.
Crinolines have been made in great quantities by this firm, the warp being cotton and the weft horsehair.
There is amongst the "Pictures of Life and Character" a drawing of a dinner-party in which the male guests are so hidden and covered by ladies' crinolines that their heads and a small portion of their shoulders only are visible.
Ridicule, again, inspires the caricature of crinolines in the park chairs, or the account of children in crinolines.
It was not, however, until 1867 that crinolines practically disappeared in fashionable circles, and that long skirts were curtailed to reasonable dimensions.
Even those years ago, when we used to tease him about the lady with the crinolines and ringlets, it was she.
Du Maurier's first Punch drawing--in a volume full of crinolines and Leech (vol.
If crinolines had not been gone out they could have all been dressed appropriately.
To see the contortions of her crinolines was the delight of all the grammar school.
There's a many o' them crinolines and peddicuts that comes in and out like a Jack-in-a-box.
In front is a fete on the Tiber, with a fashionable crowd in crinolines watching the boats tilting on the river.
From 2-1/2 to 3 feet is a fair calculation for each person, especially since the dimensions of crinolines is lessened; but no more should be allowed.
Crinolines and bonnets prove this, as well as the length of the skirts which are suffered to trail along in all the dirt and dust of pavement and crossings.
Our mothers and fathers wore the crinolines and the peg-top trousers, and our grandfathers the tight trousers and the black silk stocks.
I am ready to own anything you like, that you don't wear crinolines at all, if that will please you.
My crinolines are not larger than yours, you know they are not.
You know you girls have got to wear crinolines and fichus and corkscrew curls.
Down the court years ago had come the beauties, with their striped stockings and swaying crinolines and velvety chignons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crinolines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
