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The crinoline – a stiff petticoat that provides voluminous structure under a gown – was a staple of 19th-century European fashion. Although the version most recognisable to people today is the crinoline cage, these petticoats were originally made out of wefts of horsehair.
According to scholars of Chinese and Korean history, horsehair underskirts in Asia significantly predate European crinolines.
