About 1873, the crinolette was abandoned and the bustle was forced to drop down the back of the skirt because of the long line of the popular cuirass bodice; it was later discarded when the fashionable silhouette narrowed still further with the 'princess line' dresses of the later 1870s.

“Will someone save the citizen from ghoulie ghouls?” cry the Christian church's boys and girls.

Bid time and nature gently spare / The shaft we raise to thee.

See the look on my face From staying too long in one place But every time I try to leave I find I keep on stalling