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. [underwear and accessories for shaping and supporting]
9. crinolines

Anotations

Scope note:

Bell-shaped crinolines of whalebone or steel worn in the mid-19th century. Use "hoops (shaping garments)" for 18th-century shaping garments consisting of a series of concentric hoops of whalebone or bamboo.