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A hoop skirt or hoopskirt is a women's undergarment
Undergarment

Undergarments are Clothing worn under other clothes, often next to the skin. They keep outer garments from being soiled by perspiration, shape the body and provide support for parts of it....
 worn in various periods to hold the skirt
Skirt

A skirt is a tube- or cone-shaped garment that hangs from the waist and covers all or part of the legs.In European culture, skirts are usually considered woman clothing....
 extended into a fashionable shape.

Hoop skirts typically consist of a fabric petticoat
Petticoat

A petticoat or underskirt is an article of clothing for women; specifically an undergarment to be worn under a skirt or a dress. The petticoat is a separate garment hanging from the waist ....
 with casing
Casing

Casing may refer to:* Casing , a shell enclosing the explosive propellant in ammunition* Casing , a metal tube used during the drilling of a well...
s to hold a stiffening material, variously rope
Rope

A rope is a length of fibers, twisted or braided together to improve strength for pulling and connecting. It has tensile strength but is too flexible to provide compressive strength ....
, osiers
Willow

Willows, sallows, and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere....
, whalebone, steel
Steel

Steel is an alloy consisting mostly of iron, with a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.14% by weight , depending on grade. Carbon is the most cost-effective alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten....
 or nylon
Nylon

Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers known generically as polyamides and first produced on February 28, 1935 by Wallace Carothers at DuPont....
.

Lightweight hoop skirts, usually with nylon hoops, are worn today under very full-skirted wedding gowns. They can sometimes be seen in the gothic fashion
Gothic fashion

Gothic fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the Goth subculture; a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of clothing. Typical Gothic fashion includes black Hair colouring and black clothes....
 scene.






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A hoop skirt or hoopskirt is a women's undergarment
Undergarment

Undergarments are Clothing worn under other clothes, often next to the skin. They keep outer garments from being soiled by perspiration, shape the body and provide support for parts of it....
 worn in various periods to hold the skirt
Skirt

A skirt is a tube- or cone-shaped garment that hangs from the waist and covers all or part of the legs.In European culture, skirts are usually considered woman clothing....
 extended into a fashionable shape.

Hoop skirts typically consist of a fabric petticoat
Petticoat

A petticoat or underskirt is an article of clothing for women; specifically an undergarment to be worn under a skirt or a dress. The petticoat is a separate garment hanging from the waist ....
 with casing
Casing

Casing may refer to:* Casing , a shell enclosing the explosive propellant in ammunition* Casing , a metal tube used during the drilling of a well...
s to hold a stiffening material, variously rope
Rope

A rope is a length of fibers, twisted or braided together to improve strength for pulling and connecting. It has tensile strength but is too flexible to provide compressive strength ....
, osiers
Willow

Willows, sallows, and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere....
, whalebone, steel
Steel

Steel is an alloy consisting mostly of iron, with a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.14% by weight , depending on grade. Carbon is the most cost-effective alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten....
 or nylon
Nylon

Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers known generically as polyamides and first produced on February 28, 1935 by Wallace Carothers at DuPont....
.

Lightweight hoop skirts, usually with nylon hoops, are worn today under very full-skirted wedding gowns. They can sometimes be seen in the gothic fashion
Gothic fashion

Gothic fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the Goth subculture; a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of clothing. Typical Gothic fashion includes black Hair colouring and black clothes....
 scene. They are also an essential part of American Civil War reenactment
American Civil War reenactment

An American Civil War reenactment is an effort to recreate the appearance of a particular battle or other event associated with the American Civil War by hobbyists known as Civil War reenactors or Civil War recreationists....
.

See also

  • Farthingale
    Farthingale

    Farthingale is a term applied to any of several structures used under Western European women's clothing in the late fifteenth century and sixteenth century to support the skirts into the desired shape....
     (16th century)
  • Pannier
    Pannier (clothing)

    Panniers or side hoops are women's undergarments worn in the eighteenth century to extend the width of the Skirt at the side while leaving the front and back flat....
    s (18th century)
  • Crinoline
    Crinoline

    Crinoline was originally a stiff cloth with a weft of horse-hair and a Warp of cotton or linen yarn. The fabric first appeared around 1830, but by 1850 the word had come to mean a stiffened petticoat or rigid Dress -shaped structure of steel designed to support the skirts of a woman?s Dress into the required shape....
     (19th century)
  • Bustle
    Bustle

    A bustle is a type of framework used to expand the fullness or support the drapery of the back of a woman's dress, occurring predominantly between the mid- to late 1800s....
     (19th century)