A skirt worn over a series of hoops that make it spread out.
‘The skirt was large enough to fit over her hoop skirt and still have a small train too.’
‘This was an important occasion and Doremi Bender was dressed in the best clothing she owned - a bright hoop skirt of red silk and velvet, with matching vest over a white Elven-weave blouse.’
‘This will obviously be a mixed blessing; it is my earnest hope that by 2100 the very notion of visiting one's in-laws will have gone the way of the hoop skirt and the dodo bird.’
‘She crossed her legs daintily, smoothing her hoop skirt, and glanced up at me pathetically, locking eyes with me for a moment, then returning to her own set's chatter.’
‘In Self-Portrait, the artist creates a two-headed image of herself dressed in a tent-shaped hoop skirt.’
‘All of these entities were once terribly important to the growth of this society, but all have now gone the way of the Model T and the hoop skirt.’
‘The chase scene, and Lake's sped-up sprint through a backlot in hoop skirt and bloomers, are pure slapstick.’
‘I was making faces because I was being asked to wear a hoop skirt.’
‘My embroidered, velvet hoop skirt was wider and longer than hers, yet she tripped over hers on the stairs and I didn't.’
‘She unlatched it and pushed up the sash then she gathered up her large hoop skirt and stepped through the window.’
‘She had taken off her large hoop skirt so that it was easier to move around.’
‘The dress had a hoop skirt, those horrendous things that stick out due to a hoop in the bottom hem of the dress.’
‘As she stepped out of the room, her hoop skirt swishing slightly, she ran into Drew.’
‘You can almost picture a stern lady in a hoop skirt being helped down from the train, while a porter scurries to take her valise.’
‘It fell to the ground in layers, with no petticoat or hoop skirt underneath.’
‘One of the great American traditions that has gone the way of hoop skirts and top hats is that of the Fourth of July orator.’
‘But no wardrobe disaster can top photographer Martha Swope's experience as an Angel in the 1950s: ‘We wore 25-pound costumes made of felt, and hoop skirts underneath.’’
‘Enormous magnifying glasses enlarged faces and limbs to funhouse proportions; the women then glided across the stage in silk hoop skirts and were suddenly hoisted onto the men's shoulders.’
‘It had been about two years since her arrival and at the time hoop skirts were all the rage, and of course, although only nine years old, I had a great interest in fashion.’
‘She could have the barbeque and gala but it would be a modern affair without hoop skirts and without the melodrama.’
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