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Victorian Secret: Sitting in a Lobster Bustle Skirt Is Easier Than It Looks

By Ben Marks — According to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is the source of the 1884-1886 evening dress shown above, "The bustle was at its greatest extension by 1885." No kidding. The back of this dress, with its ginormous, protruding posterior, is almost horizontal, in co…

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