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Farthingale.png The Dude of the 17th CenturyThumbnailsCollar and Bodice types. Period Charles IThe Dude of the 17th CenturyThumbnailsCollar and Bodice types. Period Charles IThe Dude of the 17th CenturyThumbnailsCollar and Bodice types. Period Charles IThe Dude of the 17th CenturyThumbnailsCollar and Bodice types. Period Charles IThe Dude of the 17th CenturyThumbnailsCollar and Bodice types. Period Charles IThe Dude of the 17th CenturyThumbnailsCollar and Bodice types. Period Charles IThe Dude of the 17th CenturyThumbnailsCollar and Bodice types. Period Charles I

Farthingale, or Fardingale, an article of ladies' attire worn in the days of Queen Elizabeth (I), and closely resembling the more recent crinoline. It was formed of circles of whalebone hoops, and protruded more at the waist than the Victorian crinoline.