Sentence examples for hoopskirt from inspiring English sources

While her husband established a mail-order operation to deal in sewing aids and other merchandise, Demorest developed a cheap hoopskirt and a new line of corsets, cosmetics, and other products, at the same time presiding over her emporium.

Their waiter is a stumpy guy in a hoopskirt.

A portable tower light placed farther down the path revealed the figure to be a man wearing a pointed headdress above a sort of full-body hoopskirt, the hoops tied with multicolored rags and twined with a strand of tiny battery-powered lights.

Materials and forms include a 1730s green brocaded hoopskirt, a 1924 cobalt-and-brown sheath trimmed in ostrich feathers and a 1968 mesh cylinder in white leather and hammered aluminum by Paco Rabanne.

But surely there must be a more salutary approach than all the giggly hyperventilating on view here, with Anastasia Hille's breathily unalluring Dido panting in a hoopskirt as if she were about to headline a Carthaginian production of "The King and I".

HOW MUCH: $269,000 SIZE 6599 square feet PER SQUARE FOOT: $408.19 SETTING: This condo is on the fifth floor of the Hoopskirt Factory Lofts, an 1875 industrial building converted into apartments, then to condos in 2006.

Despite her hoopskirts, O'Hara is the most physically free I've ever seen her.

McKeon's vigorous command of detail, evinced in passages on subjects like the dangers of hoopskirts and the origin of the cookbook, is sometimes obscured by a love of abstraction.

The company will also première Jacqulyn Buglisi's "Suspended Women," in which ladies in hoopskirts strive for independence.

The heroes may wear hoopskirts or codpieces, but they possess the latest in glittering modern consciences.

These range in social seriousness from the transient tyranny of the fad (skateboards, Farrah Fawcett-Majors, jogging, Perrier with a twist) and the eager lockstep of fashion (blue jeans, hoopskirts, stomping boots, white kid gloves, the beard, the wig) to the delirium of the My Lai massacre and the frenzy of the race riot and the witch hunt.