Hoop skirt
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A hoop skirt or hoopskirt is a women's undergarment worn in various periods to hold the skirt extended into a fashionable shape.
Top: Minoan statuette, 1600 BCE. Verdugada, c. 1470s Bottom: Farthingale, c. 1600. Hoop or pannier, 1750–80.
Cage crinoline with steel hoops, 1865. LACMA M.2007.211.380
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Pannier (clothing)
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Panniers or side hoops are women's undergarments worn in the 17th and 18th centuries to extend the width of the skirts at the side while leaving the front and back relatively flat. This provided panel
Pannier or hoop skirt, English, 1750–80. Plain-woven linen and cane.
Staffordshire figure, c. 1750
fromTriptych: Mr Peter Ducane, Mary, nee Norris, his wife & The Ducane Children, 1747
German porcelain ballet dancer wearing a pannier, 1755