Hoops

 Farthingale - Wear a wide ladies skirt design wicker, whalebone (German fischbein) or wire, perform the functions of the frame. The middle of the XVIII century, which accounts for the flowering of the style "Rococo" is also called "the century of hoops". In Russia and Germany called farthingale that France was called "petticoat" (literally "basket"), and later - "crinoline". Crinoline originally called stiff fabric from which sewed petticoats, he later turned into an analog farthingale - a frame made of hoops. It is believed that the prototype of the farthingale (petticoat) in hoop skirts appeared in the XIV century in Spain, then they borrowed and later England - France, Germany and Russia. In parallel, there is a version of the appearance of a lush frame under skirts in one of the theaters of Paris. Hoops were made in accordance with the fashion trends, both round and flat front and back, adding volume only on the thighs ("with elbows"), but keeping the "Wineries" silhouette.