hoop-skirt

A tutorial video aimed at brides, or maybe wedding planners on the mechanics of wearing a hoop-skirt.

Archive 2010-04-01

A tutorial video aimed at brides, or maybe wedding planners on the mechanics of wearing a hoop-skirt.

Things Writers Need to Know

All of the clothing dated to the last century at least, from the era of the bustle and the hoop-skirt, and had been thriftily packed away, with springs of lavender so old it crumbled when she touched it.

Phoenix And Ashes

She wore a short, girlish dress that came to a little below her shoe-tops, a pale-figured lavender and white silk, with a fluffy hoop-skirt of dainty laced-edged ruffles, against which tiny bows of lavender stood out in odd places.

The Financier

Margery Lee, and she was just as Sally Carrol had known she would be, with a young, white brow, and wide welcoming eyes, and a hoop-skirt of some soft material that was quite comforting to rest on.

Flappers and Philosophers

I was ushered upstairs and told to put on a black wig and hoop-skirt—the Colonial look, to be sure, and an attempt to replicate the fashions worn by Dolley Madison.

Living History

I was ushered upstairs and told to put on a black wig and hoop-skirt—the Colonial look, to be sure, and an attempt to replicate the fashions worn by Dolley Madison.

Living History

You will observe that under the head of crinoline and hoop-skirt periods, there are a variety of outlines, markedly different.

Woman as Decoration

This load she had carried suspended from her waist and concealed under the large hoop-skirt then worn by ladies.

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson

We have raked the ash-heap of failure in the State and found an old human hoop-skirt who has failed as a business man, who has failed as an editor, who has failed as a preacher, and we are going to run him for Congressman-at-large ....

The United States Since the Civil War