Personally, I still think the gentleman who wrote the chronicle was exagerating. Thinking that a dress that tight must show ass cleavage and therefore there must be something preventing it and inventing the fox tail phenomenon. However I think that a tight dress alone would smoosh the buttocks together and not show a stark line of division without the aid of fluffy appendages. One wonders if the gentleman who wrote this passage had much occaison to find out what ladies of the time wore under their dresses.