Naughty North Wind - from our story 'Scenes From Ladies Dressing Rooms: The Crinoline Craze In The 1850s and 1860s'

circa 1860: The perils of crinoline in a high north wind! A young woman clings desperately to a lamppost at the seaside, while her skirt billows behind her. Ostende & Blankenberghe. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

circa 1860: The perils of crinoline in a high north wind! A young woman clings desperately to a lamppost at the seaside, while her skirt billows behind her. Ostende & Blankenberghe. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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