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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Purple flannel, large.
This crinoline was made in the 1850s. Crinolines were sometimes referred to as 'skeleton' petticoats. The light steel hoops would sway with the movement of the wearer.
Ballad criticising Welsh women for wearing crinolines (Bangor University collection)
"Nawr gyfeillion boenus hynod Clywsoch son am saith rhyfeddod Minau draethaf I chwi’r wythfed Cylchau mawr yn mheisiau’r merched."
