[MR] Hoopskirt Question

[Kathrina A. Black]

I am looking for someone who has either a good background in historic costuming or a good book on historic costuming.  I have a question about later period hoopskirts.  Can anyone help me with the question below?

I have read that spring crinolines or hoopskirts were invented in 1854 allowing women to wear fewer petticoats than before.  I know that Elizabethans wore hoopskirts or farthingales made from either stiff rope or reeds to hold the shape of the skirts.  Why was this method not continued in the 1800's?

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Barony of Bright Hills
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