This text comes from a magazine published in 1894, and gives an opinion on the use of crinoline in women's clothing. Crinoline is a stiff material usually used for petticoats, made of horsehair and thread. It is an unforgiving and heavy material which many women did not enjoy wearing. This author writes about how an Anti-Crinoline League should be formed and joined, because of the freedom that other fabrics could give women. It serves as a reflection of women's frustrations with fashion of the 1880s. 

Mackenzie, Antoinette M, Helen Blackburn, C. A. (Caroline Ashurst) Biggs, and Emilia J Boucherett. The Englishwoman's Review of Social And Industrial Questions. New York: Garland Pub., 1894.