hoop-skirts

The next morning we awoke to find the square full of horses and wagons and ladies in hoop-skirts and a thick coating of dust all over everything.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

The next morning we awoke to find the square full of horses and wagons and ladies in hoop-skirts and a thick coating of dust all over everything.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

Thus, the Morses (Telephones and Telegraph) wore nineteenth-century frock coats and the women wore Victorian hoop-skirts.

Tiger! Tiger! Bester, Alfred 1955

And you all remember how long it is since we wore funnel-shaped hoop-skirts!

Balcony Stories Grace E. King

It was the period of those funnel-shaped hoop-skirts that spread out with such nice mathematical proportions, from the waist down, that it seemed they must have emanated from the brains of astronomers, like the orbits, and diameters, and other things belonging to the heavenly bodies.

Balcony Stories Grace E. King

I do not envy the feelings of men who can invent, manufacture or sell baby-jumpers, dress elevators, hoop-skirts, or those cosmetics I see "indorsed by pure and high-toned females."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

In 1728 we find _hoop-skirts_ and _negro girls_ and other "chattels" advertised for sale in the same shop!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

Against exaggerated hoop-skirts he has all along set his face, and seldom, if ever, condescends to delineate a lady in crinoline.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

There is a curious little song, dating back to 1601, entitled "O mother, a Hoop," in which the value of hoop-skirts is set forth by a fair damsel in terms that would delight a modern belle.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

Garlands of hosiery and forests of hoop-skirts wave beneath the awnings, -- for most of the Bowery shops have awnings, -- making the sidewalk in front of them a sort of arcade for the display of their goods.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various