Show crinoline in history the oft threatened return ot of the crinoline prophesied by alarmists alarmiste alar mists of fashion leaves us all wondering we find that the crinoline was first worn in the sixteenth century bya spanish princess who used it to conceal her love letters from a forbidden or bidden admirer according to pictures of queen elizabeth she he was the first to wear it in england a writer in the st louis post dispatch states perhaps she wore it lor for the same reason she had need of 0 pockets to bide such provided all her admirers wrote to her among her earlier portraits we find that her dress resembled that of 0 queen mary alary her sister the skirts shirts ot of those these were simply widened at the bottom |