Reform dress

Hobble skirt, queue de Paris, crinoline and corset; the fashion silhouette demands much of the female body through the ages. The Vereeniging voor Verbetering van Vrouwenkleeding (in short, the V.v.V.v.V.) was established in 1899. The members' protests against the existing fashions included the wearing of a train outdoors, tight stifling collars, high heels, and especially the tightly corsetted wai…