(Image credit: Wellcome Images)Dear A.J., I’...  ...ng enough, you could always squeeze into a hobble skirt . This chic garment -fashionable in 1910s Paris- w...  ...ng for something roomier, then let me recommend a hoop skirt . At their most enormous, these wearable circus te...  ...your average aristocra...

There was a time when fashionable ladies knew how...  ...oline its remarkable silhouette; it was the under- hoops , made of bone or even steel, which formed a cage....