Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Costume (hierarchy name)
5. costume (mode of fashion)
6. clothing
7. underwear
8. underskirts

Narrower term/s

• basquines (underskirts)

Anotations

Scope note:

Underskirts fashioned from cloth attached to a series of elongated, concentric hoops made of whalebone or cane. Typically worn under a petticoat and/or gown to create a dome-shaped, small-waisted silhouette. Popular women's fashion in the 19th century.