hoopskirt

The thing frightened Hank, who had never seen a hoopskirt before, and he kept a good distance away from it.

Or haywire, heroin, and hoopskirt, as my computer would prefer it.

The rubber buffer on his hoopskirt was merely an added safeguard.

"Take me away, Robie," and jumped onto a little step in his hoopskirt.

A few small fragments rebounded from the metal hoopskirt.

An old hoopskirt came with it, and Betsy laughed and threw it away.

A chromium-bright hoopskirt with a turret on top.

His metal hoopskirt dimpled, regained its shape.

Dresses increased dramatically to the hoopskirt and crinoline-supported styles of the 1860s; then fullness was draped and drawn to the back.

A hoop skirt or hoopskirt is a women's undergarment worn in various periods to hold the skirt extended into a fashionable shape.

For Peggy Cone, a stylist, "festive" meant a draped black hat the width of a hoopskirt and narrow gold brocade pants.

Then, as a figure in a great hoopskirt and ruff stepped forward and administered a merciless prod with an iron-tipped spear, the intruder burst into tears.

With some effort, Betsy struggled to stand upright, and then saw to his dismay that there was a long tear all along the side of the hoopskirt, exposing the frame.

Ted is able to get the show ready for presentation, but during the main number the Three Stooges slip beneath the enormous hoopskirt costume worn by the leading vocalist.

Sexual frankness is taken for granted - the teen-age girls in these stories drape Barbie dolls in diaphragms "like a hoopskirt" and recover from the experience of having babies out of wedlock.

It contains songs from previous Rasputina albums, as well as covers from a variety of other musicians and both Holocaust of Giants and Kinderhook Hoopskirt Works from their upcoming album Sister Kinderhook.

By 1837 a number of simple log farmhouses dotted the area, and the settlement boasted over 200 people, 34 houses, three dry goods stores, a wagon shop, tannery, shoe shops, a foundry, a cooper shop, carpenter shop and a hoopskirt factory.

In Victorian fashion, basque refers to a closely fitted bodice or jacket extending past the waistline over the hips; depending on era, it may be worn over a hoopskirt (earlier Victorian era) or bustle (later Victorian era).

Celeste Holm was the original star of "Bloomer Girl," in which she portrayed Evalina, a young woman from Cicero Falls, N.Y., who in 1861 rebelled against the hoopskirt and took to wearing her radical Aunt Dolly Bloomer's scandalous garb.

I went back to Fang the next morning and pretended that nothing had happened, that my little DNA-enhanced heart hadn't gone all aflutter and that I hadn't imagined myself in a hoopskirt, coming down the stairs at Tara like Scarlett O'Hara.

You can trace everything about Evie Cottrell's look back to some television commercial for an organic shampoo, except right now Evie's wedding dress is burned down to just the hoopskirt wires orbiting her hips and just the little wire skeletons of all the silk flowers that were in her hair.

In the 1850's, just as women tired of hoisting their own weight in petticoats in order to fluff out their bell-shaped skirts, along came the cage crinoline - a lightweight hoopskirt made of thin, connected metal laths and cloth tape, whose design was inspired by the much-publicized construction of the new Capitol dome in Washington.