Another bandwagon jumped. This one started by Lindsey, Loren, and Leia, and the CC27 18th-century posse, inspired, iirc, by the movie The Duchess.
Conversations started on LiveJournal in, I think, January, probably when the movie came out on DVD and people started obsessing over every last costume, especially the huge, poufy, stripey polonaises Georgiana and Bess wear in Bath. Suddenly, everyone had to have one! And since I didn’t want to wear my boring old 18th-century costumes to CC27 — and particularly since a group of us were going to Colonial Williamsburg beforehand! — and I also have a bunch of stripey fabric in The Stash, of course I got sucked in!