"The waistlines, you see, in my day are very high," Lydia endeavored to explain. "Just under the bust. And the queen insists that everyone must still wear hoops to court. Have you ever seen a hoop skirt? It's a sort of contraption of wires, to make the skirts stand out as if one were wearing some ridiculous number of petticoats. So the girls who go to court are sort of..." Lydia gestured around herself, indicating the unfortunate shape of these skirts.
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