Describe articles that were called either a tournure or a
bustle?

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They were both forms of stiffened supports for the rear of
skirts. By 1869 the flounce frilled horsehair tournure
dress improver or bustle was the undergarment to own to
achieve the fashionable silhouette of the day

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