c. 1850s-1870s. Hoop Skirts

[dewey839]

Comments

[ysobelle]

I seem to remember these were satiric-- poking fun at the enormous size to which hoops had grown, and how inconvenient they'd become for women and the public at large. At least, in the author's mind.

[sweetnessarose]

The first hoop skirt is RIDICULOUS.

I remember touring a manor a few years ago where they deliberately built the doors smaller in some rooms so the women couldn't fit. The men's smoke rooms and stuff.

[ryals_shoal]

Instant lady repellent: smaller doors

*shakes head in bemusement*

[lulu_girl]

getting dressed then would be so boring. dang.

[arcadiaego]

This is making me think of the BBC's drama 'Cranford' where one of the characters bought what she thought to be an especially decorative birdcage which was actually a hoop skirt frame and was naturally scandalised when she discovered the truth.

[bitchie_poo]

as much as i love this fashion, the last picture makes me wonder why it would have ever become fashionable to dress as a mobile cone.