I wore a 1940's vintage dress with hoops at my wedding.. at times it felt like I was the Queen Mary II coming into port (gigle). I am a thin tall lady - not used to having a circumferance as large as my arm span.
The only thing that took extra thought was I had to replace the standard high-backed chair (at the dinning table) with a piano stool. The stool looked a little silly sitting behind the table, but when I sat down on it the skirts completely hid it and I looked 'graceful' - because the skirt was hanging properly, not trying to hit the ceiling. Katheryne At 10/7/07 01:01 PM, you wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Not one of those huge hoop skirts. Impossible to > dance a waltz in that. > > **************** > > Well, they waltzed quite a lot in hoops in the > period. In the 1860s, when hoops were worn, waltzes and polkas and schottisches were all danced, vigorously. I, myself, while wearing my hoopskirts, have lead other women in a full-turning waltz more than once. :) So even a modern person, who does not wear hoops very often, can waltz with little to no trouble in hoops. Hoops are a bit like lampshades, though--if you move one side down, the other is very likely to fly up. Ann in CT/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
