- The fashion trend of crinolines emerged in the 1830s. Originally made of a linen fabric that was woven with horsehair, crinolines were created as an additional type of petticoat for women to wear. Starting in the 1840s, crinolines transformed into a staple of women's fashion with the evolving ways that a woman could shape her skirt. With this shift in the fashion world, super-full and extra-full crinoline skirts emerged as ways for women to express their own sense of style.
- The emergence of metal cage crinolines gave women the freedom to break away from the six layers of petticoats that was previously concerned a minimum for both fashion and decency standards. One crinoline was sufficient to fit over a metal hoop skirt. While the trend of metal cage crinolines spread across the world, the fashion industry soon determined that more could be done for women's styles than wearing one simple crinoline over a hoop skirt. Quickly after the debut of metal cage crinolines, super-full and extra-full crinoline skirts gained immense popularity.
- In the 1860s, crinoline skirt trends developed with super-full skirts with the fullest area in the back of the skirt. These crinoline created a triangular shape for the skirt itself. The crinolines laid flat over the stomach, hips and waist, and fanned out toward the bottom of the skirt to the hem. These super-full crinolines were predominantly worn until 1863.
- In the mid-1860s, extra-full crinolines, or the double skirt, became popular as skirts developed into nearly trainlike styles. In addition to the extra extension on the back of the skirt, crinolines of this period were altered from the traditional hoop skirt as the upper rings were removed. The foundations of these crinolines, which were also known as polonaise, were flat in the front with an extra full crinoline in the back. These extra-full crinolines had trains that extended as far back as a few feet.