----- Original Message ----- From: "WickedFrau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 8:32 AM Subject: Re: [h-cost] readymade hoops, are they worth it?
> Whoooops...way out of my time period. I am glad though that this made > me pull out my other POF... Is the shape which you refer to as > eliptical truely an oval from front to back? The wedding dress looks > much more round. I kind of figured those round ones you can buy would > be pretty close to the right shape. What would you have to do in your > mind to make them correct? > > Sg > > Who is curious because several of us are thinking about moving up a few > centuries in costuming! > > Sg > Well I don't know if the original was worn over an oval hoop, it does look round but it looks to me like maybe there was a little more fullness at the back, especially at the top. http://snipurl.com/hxvp is an example of the appearance of extra fullness at the back (although that could be due to the way her shawl is draped, I'm not sure) and although this fashion plate is from 1852 I don't think it's too unreasonable to think maybe one could do something similar for the second half of that decade. If I did buy one of these hoops I would have at least brought in the bottom hoops so it was more of a dome shape and less of a cone shape (see http://snipurl.com/hxve for an example of what a dress looks like worn over one of these, it looks more like a caricature lampooning hoopskirts than something you'd expect to see in real life). I was also planning to reduce the overall size so the bottom hoop was somewhere between 110-120" circumference (I've been told on another of my lists that the diameter of most hoops was 40-60% of the wearer's height) Elizabeth -------------------------------------------- Elizabeth Walpole Canberra Australia ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au http://au.geocities.com/e_walpole/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
