The change in dress from the Crinoline to the Bustle was not to flamboyance but to careful grooming. Clothing became standardized, in which the clubman differs from the grocer’s boy only because of the superior skill of his tailor and in the greater sobriety of his ensemble. Women’s clothing changed from the grotesqueness of the Crinoline to the exaggeration of the Bustle.
The actual changes in men’s dress from the Crinoline to that of the Bustle have to do with closer-cropped hair, less flamboyant whiskers, a somewhat greater variety of hats and coats, and returning to knee breeches.