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to avoid dirt or to facilitate movement. It clamped on to the hem and was attached to the belt by a cord, ribbon, or chain. The first skirt lifters date from around 1846 and they were most popular in the 1860s-1880s. Costume designer

Penny Rose Penny Rose is a British costume designer who has worked in the film industry since the 1970s. Rose has been nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design three times for the films '' Evita'' (1996), '' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse ...

chose a skirt lifter as her hypothetical donation to the imaginary museum in an August 2017 episode of

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's ''

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