Fashion in the 1990s is all about revivals and this season, it is the turn of the bottom to go back in time. In her autumn collection, On Liberty, Vivienne Westwood has brought back the bustle in the form of a padded cushion kept in place by a fabric tie, writes Lucinda Alford in the Observer Magazine on 18 September 1994, ‘or attached to a roll-on panty’. The cushion bustle is worn under clingy knitted dresses, or peeping out from the back of strategically cut skirts. The look is Betty Boop crossed with a pantomime dame, inspired by the 19th-century bustle. Hyper-femininity is the watchword.
