--- LuAnn Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh, absolutely. It's just interesting to trace the
> evolution because the crinolines that have the open
> fronts are so much more comfortable / wearable /
> danceable than the earlier hooped petticoat style.
>
> LuAnn
My 'open-front' hoops have partial hoops around the
opening. cccoooo <--the layers, atop one another
rather than side by side, of course. ;)
They are a hooped petticoat, and not a cage.
10 hoops, with a double line of hooping at the hem,
and only to my knees.
I was going to a masquerade ball with them, and it was
very common in the 1860s for women at masquerade balls
to wear knee-length skirts.
Yes, respectable women. :)
Basically, I wasn't going to make more than one set of
hoops.
I took the early bustle hoops pattern from Waugh's
Corsets and Crinolines, left off the bustle support
entirely, and mucked around until the pattern worked
as I wished it to.
The pleat in each back piece did a nice job of
swinging the hoops back a bit, which you can see as
early as the late 1850s (in Boucher 20,000 Years of
Fashion, there's a dated progression set of pictures).
Ann in CT
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