Widest skirt
- Who
- grand habit
- What
- 2.1 metre(s)
- Where
- Not Applicable
- When
- 1750s
The widest skirts to be worn as part of fashionable dress were the style known as the grand habit, inspired by French court dress of the 1750s. This style was distinguished by what is known as a pannier skirt, which used woven cane-and-fabric structural undergarments to support a skirt that extended outwards from the hips. The most extravagant examples of the grand habit measured as much as seven feet in width (2.1 m).