Her hooped skirt matched the color of the pelisse, and was accented with double vertical stripes of black.
They were adopted in the 1850s because of the advent of the hooped skirt or crinoline.
Then came a hooped skirt, then a quilted petticoat, then an ordinary petticoat and, finally, a dress.
Its great hooped skirt hung from the armpits and spread like a bell-tent to the ground.
Behind them, near the unlit bonfire, stood Dr. Otterly and Ralph, who was again dressed in his great hooped skirt.
Besides, if the hooped skirt gave me the opportunity to experience the rarefied strata to which the rest of you folks are accustomed, why not go for it?
It makes you want to run down it in a hooped skirt and gloves.
She wore a seventeenth-century dress of white satin brocade, with a hooped skirt, which admirably set off her fair colouring.
She gathered her full hooped skirt and marched towards him.
At the center of the room stands, tentlike, the walk-in form of a woman's white hooped skirt, 19th-century formal attire.