I think it’s because women and girls weren’t allowed to wear pants to school so when it was cold they would wear pants under skirts. My mom used to do that
@@Kennymalarr oh my mom mentioned that in the 70s and 80s she would wear sweatpants under dresses while walking to school. And no, they didn’t have uniforms, it was just the thing for girls to wear skirts.
@@Kennymalarr you typically wear leggings (back then knitted leggings) under skirt though. Typically with straps below your foot. In my language in my female family members' childhoods they were typically referred to as with a word related to cavalry. A more modern option is fleece-lined, they make them in China in bulk. They look like thick stockings overall, not like pants as you're wearing boots.
@@annasolovyeva1013 Those kinds of leggings/stockings fell to the wayside almost a century ago. Pants and sweatpants as solutions are likely to be considered, if only because they've more readily available in various regions, especially decades ago, before online shopping took off.
"Hobble" skirts (long skirts that are more narrow at the hem than the waist/ hips) came back in briefly in the 50's then went right back out. You can't walk in them, much less run for the bus in them. It is like women's romper/jumper suits, which come into fashion and go back out of fashion when everyone realises you have to undress nearly completely to go to the bathroom. They have a moment - until everyone remembers how uncomfortable they are and then they go back out of style.
Skirts like this are meant to control women's ability to actually move-- ride a bike, hop in a car, stride down a street. They are pushed on women in times when society wants to diminish power. In this era women were rejecting the corset. Soon clothing got more comfy and loose and women even started wearing trousers!
I bought a vintage jumpsuit from eBay last week. It’s all denim and fabulous but as soon as I put it on I got a serious front wedgie LMAO. perhaps it’s means for very short torso-ed people. I don’t know that I’ll ever actually wear it 🤦🏻♀️
I love jumpsuits. Their very great for hands-on work, I just make sure to wear a shirt underneath and I don't have to worry about being naked. If it gets too hot, I can just take off the top half and wrap it around my waist.
Idk where you’re looking but most of them have two legs lol. Just like the male. But the gap between them is thin so maybe far away it’s hard to see. Plus not all of them are uniform everywhere.
@@Jellybeansatdusk it may depend on where you are. A lot of the ones where I am have no legs, just a triangle for a skirt. And I had a quick look on Google images, while the majority were what you described, there were also a number of them that matched the dress from this video.
No pictures exist but, this was the style my great-grandmother chose for her wedding dress in 1915, She was 6’ and Papa was 5’7”, when it came time for them to leave their wedding reception, she was unable to step up into the carriage and he attempted to pick her up and almost dropped her! Her big brother ended up lifting her up. I was fortunate enough to send my first 11 years with her; loved her stories.
*Hey!* Don't be dissing my dates' prom dresses! They were visions of loveliness. 🥰🥰🥰 back in the days when a dress was a dress, rather than an oversized belt.
I know why!! It’s believed that they were invented to help women ride in airplanes so that their skirts wouldn’t fly back. Also, it’s believed the hobble skirt was the inspiration for the modern pencil skirt later invented by Christian Dior in 1947!
Strange, I heard a different reason for hobble skirts. According to a fashion historian on the BBC, the hobble part was developed due to an obsession with royalty and one princess in particular. Unfortunately, her name has escaped me now. She'd, apparently, had some form of illness or injury in her younger years which resulted in giving her a very distinct walking style which the hobble skirt was designed to help women emulate.
She wears more of a mermaid tail tho. It's form fitting to circa the knee and then flares out. Meanwhile, the hobble skirt is straight all the way down
Ngl, I do love a very fierce, exaggerated taper to flare skirt silhouette. It's a great way to look like a sculpture or a piece of art, but I can't imagine the average person with stuff to do could wear it often, Morticia is a special case. She just has to look fierce, spook the world, and be adored by her enamoured husband.
A pencil skirt that goes all the way down to your ankles...with no split...and no spandex. But yes, in the 80s, I had some fab dresses that came just above the knee with wide shoulder pads (40s inspired), and peplum skirt over pencil skirt.
@@vbrown6445 that reminds me so much of what my mom did with me in the early nineties when I was a kid she pretty much put me in those types of dresses I look at pictures now and I legitimately cringe
There was a one-panel cartoon done back then where a group of angry women wearing these are juuust missing their bus (train?) because there's no way that they can hoof it fast enough enough to make it. It's what I think of anytime I hear the term "hobble skirt".
I also believe that there was a lot of Japanese clothing influence. Hense the name “hobble skirt” in 1914 Japan went to war with Germany. The Japanese women’s kimono was also very restrictive for women to walk in. Due to Japan’s stepping into the limelight, in 1914, there was also some influence taken from the Japanese Kimono. Google it! 😅
“Kimono” (the Japanese term for “something that is worn”) are not restrictive. Only the most formal of kimono (the furisode and hikizuri for women) requires the most layers and requires help to put on. They aren’t restrictive though. The obi needs to be tight as a corset to keep all the layers where they are. With these two being so heavy, you naturally walk a bit differently. Komon is the most casual kimono aside from Yukata (only worn in summer.) This is what was worn most often before Westernization. The view that "kimono" are restrictive is a very Western idea. It can also be busted upon the wearing of such a garment.
@@KateandBree The obi and the kimono have to be fairly tight in order for the obi to stay together when the wearer walks. It also forces them to stand and sit very straight
I just realized that the Evil Stepmother in Whitney Houston's Cinderella spends the whole movie in a hobble skirt. It fits her character and the actress makes it look good
Iirc, it went out of fashion the moment its designer went to the races with a coterie of models, grew so irritated with their inability to keep up, that he tore each skirt up its seam. Idk if this is true, my mother told me this. And I don't feel like googling at 5am.
I adore vintage clothing. I would adjust the style of the dress. I really love old world. I moved from Florida to France, and realized one thing that’s really good, is that I can wear my vintage things and not be looked upon as if I’m crazy.
In 199x all the goth girls were wearing them. I know this because I married one, who was a former punk. Oh and I will tell you why....if you wear it, everyone in the room has try and help you walk, so you become the instant center of attention. You're lying....it's your favorite dress. Just admit it.
As for why, the fashion started after Mrs. Sara Van Deman rode on a airplane with Wilbur Wright on October 27, 1909. She was the first woman ever to ride on a plane. Before they took off Wilber Wright and Lt Frank Lahm tied a string around the bottom of Mrs. Van Deman's skirt to keep it from flying out while they were in the air. Photos of this event in College Park MD were seen in newspapers around the world, beginning the fashion for the hobble skirt.
i just love the mid to late 10s silhouette, maybe because it tends to get swallowed into the early 1910s or late1920s silhouettes in modern media so it's not as overly done but the bust have a really nice eleant shape and the skirts are just so fun (like in five years you went to really long and vertical to almost empire waist and extremely wide to "waist? don't know her" with any and every single skirt shape possible. Also it amazes me that the 20s are defined by the short skirts where the skirts in 1916 we already above ankle length and until 1925 they were still quite long and by 1930 the silhouette was already back to being long and sinuous
I believe it may have something to do with rationing of fabrics during World War I. It was considered patriotic to dress in tighter, shorter skirts that used less fabric, although there was still a preference towards creating a wide hipped silhouette as in this lovely example! Thanks for sharing it ❤
@@marysue9661 to be fair, in answer to C) it could be the _appearance_ of saving fabric, rather than the actual doing it. tho I think you're right, it's a nice theory but it doesn't quite match
1914 was the year WWI started, in July. It wouldn't have been going on long enough to impact the luxury fashion market. Also 1914 was pretty much the end of the fashion.
WW1 is actually moreso what struck the hobble skirt dead. By 1915, skirts were getting a lot fuller and shorter for practicality, leading to 1916-17 when there was a brief trend of the war crinoline, where skirts were almost as full as they were in the 1850s. Hobble skirts were always kind of seen as a bit ridiculous, so when all of a sudden women were expected to be able to work, extremely impractical clothing like that was seen as tacky.
Yes, in BD & SM, we do often wear MUCH tighter hobble skirts! I love wearing them to the crowded malls on Saturday afternoons! Sooooo wonderfully humiliating! It quickly becomes sooo incredibly addictive! Try it!!
I adore the scene in Funny Girl when Barbara Streisand and the other Ziegfeld Girls arrive in Chicago, emerging from the train in the most ornate peg skirts. They all hobbled up the train platform in a group, looking like a flock of exotic birds.
Fun fact--they actually introduced low floor streetcar designs because women wearing these things had difficulty getting on the stairs of the traditional high floor designs.
I'm not suggesting butchering a piece of history but it would actually be sooooooo cute if you cut it to where it was just the A-line shape on top. It would look pretty modern actually
Well, it has a very nice silhouette. Broad hips are feminine and the narrow skirt makes a woman to move slowly and with grace. Absolutely gorgeous and brillant aesthetic! Love it❤
I have a Massachusetts Friend with a family story: the family essentially watched the house burn because the ladies were wearing hubble skirts and couldn't walk let alone run
I know that fascination with the orient was very big, came and went through the decades, when Britain was still occupying parts of China. this sort of reminds me of elements of Asian fashion where taking very tiny steps, and being a person of means who did not have to take wide strides would be seen as a sign of wealth
Indeed. Contemporary photos show middle class women wearing these. Working class women had lightly gathered straight skirts that allowed them to move without getting in the way.
I’ve seen these with a drop hobble underneath, which was a narrow cloth ring around your lower calf attached by long lace or cloth strips to a waistband that prevented you from taking a big step that might tear your skirt.
To answer your question, the hobble skirt was a surprisingly conservative bit of new/revolutionary fashion, simultaneously condemned for its assocation with such fashion yet praised for restoring the traditional ladylike step (which should not be more than 14 inches)!
It’s like pants dresses… I can’t think of a single person who would consciously wear them who had even an ounce of self awareness and a fashion sense. If your trying to dress up you wear a dress OR nice pants!!!! “Oh but it’s comfortable”… SO ARE SWEAT PANTS, YOU MIGHT AS WELL HAVE WORN THOSE INSTEAD!!!
Hobble skirts: Put me on and make me popular in 2024 🎉 Girls with this thighs: ... As a gal with thick thighs myself, I wouldn't survive 😂 They'd rub so badly I'd probably start a fire 🔥 😮💨
Haha! Actually, the 1910’s IS my favorite era in fashion. It’s almost forgotten, as it happened between two iconic eras in fashion - the Edwardian and the 1920’s. But I love it!
Hmm so that's where the peplum came from. Also this was recreated in the 50s-early 70s, can be seen in Hairspray, MadMen, iconic glamour shots, hollywood period movies, Chanel 60s collection and Dior 50s-60s collections. Intersting!
Not surprisingly, the fashion was (fortunately for women) short-lived. When the Great War broke out in 1914 & many women started volunteering in hospitals (and even driving ambulances on the battlefield), they quickly did away with such cumbersome clothing just out of necessity.
Actually, I quite like the _look._ 😉😊 But I need to be able to move about, so- solid no. 🤷 I've seen more extreme versions of hobble skirts, though. And these days, you have fishtail/mermaid wedding dresses which are pretty much the same; except that they aren't straight line but flare out from the knee down. Still can't move around much in them. 🤷
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Oh, so thats where jeans under dresses came from 😭😭😭✌🏾
I think it’s because women and girls weren’t allowed to wear pants to school so when it was cold they would wear pants under skirts. My mom used to do that
It’s beautiful though
@@Kennymalarr oh my mom mentioned that in the 70s and 80s she would wear sweatpants under dresses while walking to school. And no, they didn’t have uniforms, it was just the thing for girls to wear skirts.
@@Kennymalarr you typically wear leggings (back then knitted leggings) under skirt though. Typically with straps below your foot. In my language in my female family members' childhoods they were typically referred to as with a word related to cavalry. A more modern option is fleece-lined, they make them in China in bulk.
They look like thick stockings overall, not like pants as you're wearing boots.
@@annasolovyeva1013 Those kinds of leggings/stockings fell to the wayside almost a century ago. Pants and sweatpants as solutions are likely to be considered, if only because they've more readily available in various regions, especially decades ago, before online shopping took off.
It's like a peplum, a pencil skirt and a mermaid gown had a baby.
It was a wild night. No one was able to leave on their own.
Shocking silence.😅
that is the most preposterous article of clothing I've ever seen outside of a runway show, five stars
didnt realize we had a fashion designer on our hands 😂😂😂
Right? It's beautiful! Utter nonsense, but beautiful.
It looks elegant
I mean...if there was a slit in the back, I could see this working. But actually not being able to take normal steps is rather a no-no 😅
Take a look at Funny Girl. A lot of the women wore them in the movie at one point when it was the fashion..especially the Ziegfeld girls.
"Hobble" skirts (long skirts that are more narrow at the hem than the waist/ hips) came back in briefly in the 50's then went right back out. You can't walk in them, much less run for the bus in them. It is like women's romper/jumper suits, which come into fashion and go back out of fashion when everyone realises you have to undress nearly completely to go to the bathroom. They have a moment - until everyone remembers how uncomfortable they are and then they go back out of style.
I feel like a hobble skirt could be usable if it was made of stretchy fabric.
Skirts like this are meant to control women's ability to actually move-- ride a bike, hop in a car, stride down a street. They are pushed on women in times when society wants to diminish power. In this era women were rejecting the corset. Soon clothing got more comfy and loose and women even started wearing trousers!
I bought a vintage jumpsuit from eBay last week. It’s all denim and fabulous but as soon as I put it on I got a serious front wedgie LMAO. perhaps it’s means for very short torso-ed people. I don’t know that I’ll ever actually wear it 🤦🏻♀️
Hey, at least rompers are comfortable and flexible. Being completely naked in a bathroom wasn’t awful from what I remember.
I love jumpsuits. Their very great for hands-on work, I just make sure to wear a shirt underneath and I don't have to worry about being naked. If it gets too hot, I can just take off the top half and wrap it around my waist.
OMG I FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHY THE LADIES BATHROOM SIGNS LOOK LIKE THEY ONLY HAVE ONE LEG LMAO they must all be wearing this dress 😂😂😂
omg true 😂
I thought the dress from the signs is floor length
Idk where you’re looking but most of them have two legs lol. Just like the male. But the gap between them is thin so maybe far away it’s hard to see. Plus not all of them are uniform everywhere.
Omg you cracked the mystery! 😮
@@Jellybeansatdusk it may depend on where you are. A lot of the ones where I am have no legs, just a triangle for a skirt.
And I had a quick look on Google images, while the majority were what you described, there were also a number of them that matched the dress from this video.
No pictures exist but, this was the style my great-grandmother chose for her wedding dress in 1915, She was 6’ and Papa was 5’7”, when it came time for them to leave their wedding reception, she was unable to step up into the carriage and he attempted to pick her up and almost dropped her! Her big brother ended up lifting her up. I was fortunate enough to send my first 11 years with her; loved her stories.
omg, that sounds so embarrassing! It's a shame no pictures exist... did you ever get to see the dress in person?
What an amazing memory to be a part of knowing!
That’s such a cool story and what a way to end a wedding
Oh my gosh, that is such a great memory for your family to have and pass down ❤
"I got you lil'sis" lift
It's like the tacky 80s prom dress of historical clothing.
Except it's a little too long it would have be shorter if we're talking '80s
Now tacky 80’s IS historical fashion. How wild is that?
That feels like an insult to tacky 80s prom dresses, at least they could dance!
I wore something that was for the next year's prom lol Almost November Rain 🌧️☔ dress,. GnR days!!!
*Hey!* Don't be dissing my dates' prom dresses! They were visions of loveliness. 🥰🥰🥰
back in the days when a dress was a dress, rather than an oversized belt.
I am a docent at a museum, and I dress in period clothing. The museum was built in, you guessed it, 1914. But I have grown to love my outfit 😊
I know why!! It’s believed that they were invented to help women ride in airplanes so that their skirts wouldn’t fly back. Also, it’s believed the hobble skirt was the inspiration for the modern pencil skirt later invented by Christian Dior in 1947!
That's really cool and makes a lot of sense. I can totally see the pencil skirt + peplum blouse combo taking inspiration from these dresses.
Strange, I heard a different reason for hobble skirts. According to a fashion historian on the BBC, the hobble part was developed due to an obsession with royalty and one princess in particular. Unfortunately, her name has escaped me now. She'd, apparently, had some form of illness or injury in her younger years which resulted in giving her a very distinct walking style which the hobble skirt was designed to help women emulate.
@@StampinDivaUK Yes! That video just came through my feed recently. Was it a queen? Alexandra? Or Duchess of Kent, maybe?
@@rootsmudge i was going to say!! I can see this dress being a lot more cuter if we modernize it a bit using those styles. I'd def wear it that way
@@StampinDivaUK I’ve heard the same thing. I want to say Queen Anne but I know that’s not it.
I’m in the music man right now. That is exactly what they are making us wear. (It’s set in 1912)
Morticia Addams is the modern hobble skirt queen
She wears more of a mermaid tail tho. It's form fitting to circa the knee and then flares out. Meanwhile, the hobble skirt is straight all the way down
Ngl, I do love a very fierce, exaggerated taper to flare skirt silhouette. It's a great way to look like a sculpture or a piece of art, but I can't imagine the average person with stuff to do could wear it often, Morticia is a special case. She just has to look fierce, spook the world, and be adored by her enamoured husband.
Technically her's is a mermaid skirt since it flares out around the feet and lower legs
Morticia Addams wears a form fitting dress that only begins to flare out below the knee.
Imagine, in 1914, trying to board a tram car in that skirt
I had a baju kurung equivalent of that dress and I deeply regret buying it...😢 It made me look like an adorned bowling pin
PLS THAT DESCRIPTION 😭😭
I'm sorry for laughing but 😂😂😂😂 not a bowling pin!!
So it's essentially a peplum style dress with a maxi pencil skirt. Now if It was cut to the knees you would have 100% an '80s dress
A pencil skirt that goes all the way down to your ankles...with no split...and no spandex. But yes, in the 80s, I had some fab dresses that came just above the knee with wide shoulder pads (40s inspired), and peplum skirt over pencil skirt.
@@vbrown6445 that reminds me so much of what my mom did with me in the early nineties when I was a kid she pretty much put me in those types of dresses I look at pictures now and I legitimately cringe
it's gonna look gorgeous on tall women with no distinct hips to create that hourglass shape. it looks good on you too!
take away the extra ruffles at the top and I think it's a pretty decent dress honestly.
That’s me: tall with no hips.
There was a one-panel cartoon done back then where a group of angry women wearing these are juuust missing their bus (train?) because there's no way that they can hoof it fast enough enough to make it.
It's what I think of anytime I hear the term "hobble skirt".
Wow! I looked up those cartoons! They were really hard on the hobble skirt and the women who wore them 😂
That color is gorgeous on you! It complements your hair and brings out your eyes.
I also believe that there was a lot of Japanese clothing influence. Hense the name “hobble skirt” in 1914 Japan went to war with Germany. The Japanese women’s kimono was also very restrictive for women to walk in. Due to Japan’s stepping into the limelight, in 1914, there was also some influence taken from the Japanese Kimono. Google it! 😅
Wow, your right! I does look like one of those! That would make sense too!
At least a kimono has a slit!
“Kimono” (the Japanese term for “something that is worn”) are not restrictive. Only the most formal of kimono (the furisode and hikizuri for women) requires the most layers and requires help to put on. They aren’t restrictive though. The obi needs to be tight as a corset to keep all the layers where they are. With these two being so heavy, you naturally walk a bit differently.
Komon is the most casual kimono aside from Yukata (only worn in summer.) This is what was worn most often before Westernization. The view that "kimono" are restrictive is a very Western idea. It can also be busted upon the wearing of such a garment.
It’s so women couldn’t run away.
@@KateandBree The obi and the kimono have to be fairly tight in order for the obi to stay together when the wearer walks. It also forces them to stand and sit very straight
Might not be comfy but it's cute af!
That’s so nice of you! I always think these dresses look kind of silly 🥲
@@thesewloartist I love that dress on you. It's gorgeous.
@@thesewloartist I find it trés elegante, and architecturally beautifully balanced. That dress looks new!
I like it too 😊
I find it kinda ugly, sorry 🙈 😅
But everyone can sure have their own opinion!
I love hobble skirts! And you rock this look!
*New favorite dress omg
*Though I wouldn't like to actually wear it because of the restricted leg movement
Might be able to make a modified version with a slit in the back to allow for better leg movement
THOSE PEARLS ARE JUST PERFECT plus that dress looks so high quality and cute
Stunning. The bodice especially. Yet I feel such vicarious fury upon seeing your cinched steps
That Edwardian silhouette is like one of my favs. The long string of pearls, the massive hat, parisol, hobble skirt. Fantastic!
Paul Poiret invented the Hobble Skirt in 1908. He was very popular during WWI, until around the great depression, but spending cost him his business.
I just realized that the Evil Stepmother in Whitney Houston's Cinderella spends the whole movie in a hobble skirt. It fits her character and the actress makes it look good
Nah, her skirt flares out much more in the bottom
@@mariaclaramajin9906 true, but she mostly wears dresses without much walking room
Omg we were talking about different movies, sorry, i was thinking about kate blanchet as the evil stepmother 😭
@@mariaclaramajin9906 No worries, that was also a great stepmother
Iirc, it went out of fashion the moment its designer went to the races with a coterie of models, grew so irritated with their inability to keep up, that he tore each skirt up its seam.
Idk if this is true, my mother told me this.
And I don't feel like googling at 5am.
I adore vintage clothing. I would adjust the style of the dress. I really love old world. I moved from Florida to France, and realized one thing that’s really good, is that I can wear my vintage things and not be looked upon as if I’m crazy.
I think it is beautiful!!
In 199x all the goth girls were wearing them. I know this because I married one, who was a former punk.
Oh and I will tell you why....if you wear it, everyone in the room has try and help you walk, so you become the instant center of attention. You're lying....it's your favorite dress. Just admit it.
As for why, the fashion started after Mrs. Sara Van Deman rode on a airplane with Wilbur Wright on October 27, 1909. She was the first woman ever to ride on a plane. Before they took off Wilber Wright and Lt Frank Lahm tied a string around the bottom of Mrs. Van Deman's skirt to keep it from flying out while they were in the air. Photos of this event in College Park MD were seen in newspapers around the world, beginning the fashion for the hobble skirt.
I love that era of fashion
It low key reminds me of peplum skirts from the 1980s. Fashion is just fashion I guess.
Well, if anyone can pull it off, it’s YOU!
It would look so cute if they chose either the long narrow skirt or the short ruffled one (even though no one wore those then) but BOTH? Nah
I think you look great in it , the hobbleskirt is a fascinating garment 😉
i just love the mid to late 10s silhouette, maybe because it tends to get swallowed into the early 1910s or late1920s silhouettes in modern media so it's not as overly done but the bust have a really nice eleant shape and the skirts are just so fun (like in five years you went to really long and vertical to almost empire waist and extremely wide to "waist? don't know her" with any and every single skirt shape possible. Also it amazes me that the 20s are defined by the short skirts where the skirts in 1916 we already above ankle length and until 1925 they were still quite long and by 1930 the silhouette was already back to being long and sinuous
I believe it may have something to do with rationing of fabrics during World War I. It was considered patriotic to dress in tighter, shorter skirts that used less fabric, although there was still a preference towards creating a wide hipped silhouette as in this lovely example! Thanks for sharing it ❤
A) in 1914 the war barely started
B) I only know about that in WWII, but maybe you're right.
C) this to reduce fabric? Heck no.
@@marysue9661 to be fair, in answer to C) it could be the _appearance_ of saving fabric, rather than the actual doing it. tho I think you're right, it's a nice theory but it doesn't quite match
It's from before WWI
1914 was the year WWI started, in July. It wouldn't have been going on long enough to impact the luxury fashion market. Also 1914 was pretty much the end of the fashion.
WW1 is actually moreso what struck the hobble skirt dead. By 1915, skirts were getting a lot fuller and shorter for practicality, leading to 1916-17 when there was a brief trend of the war crinoline, where skirts were almost as full as they were in the 1850s.
Hobble skirts were always kind of seen as a bit ridiculous, so when all of a sudden women were expected to be able to work, extremely impractical clothing like that was seen as tacky.
Yes, in BD & SM, we do often wear MUCH tighter hobble skirts! I love wearing them to the crowded malls on Saturday afternoons! Sooooo wonderfully humiliating! It quickly becomes sooo incredibly addictive! Try it!!
Immediately my mind jumps to “they made it that way so a woman couldn’t run away” which is so true for a lot of historical fashion trends.
I thought so the man CAN run away. But i guess your idea makez more sense xD
Or to show they didn't have to run anywhere or work
"We accidentally made too many pant legs in 5XL, what should we do?"
"I got an idea. What if we took those pant legs and disguised them as skirts?"
Soo uncomfortable. Love it
Is this an original dress from 1914 or did you make this yourself. Also you have the perfect body for historical clothing I'm so jealous 😊...
It’s the equivalent of 2010-2016 fashion.
I adore the scene in Funny Girl when Barbara Streisand and the other Ziegfeld Girls arrive in Chicago, emerging from the train in the most ornate peg skirts. They all hobbled up the train platform in a group, looking like a flock of exotic birds.
Wait excuse me for being dumb but is that actually antique or a recreation of a 1914 dress? It looks way too new to be an actual 109-year-old dress!
The name is actually pretty accurate. Add one of them big hats and my first reaction would be "yeah, she definitely pegs"
Fun fact--they actually introduced low floor streetcar designs because women wearing these things had difficulty getting on the stairs of the traditional high floor designs.
I'm not suggesting butchering a piece of history but it would actually be sooooooo cute if you cut it to where it was just the A-line shape on top. It would look pretty modern actually
It's just that this dress is horrible... Hobble skirts actually look really nice as office attire.
It makes a nice silhouette but can you imagine trying to step up stairs? You'd be stuck on the ground floor!
Well, it has a very nice silhouette. Broad hips are feminine and the narrow skirt makes a woman to move slowly and with grace. Absolutely gorgeous and brillant aesthetic! Love it❤
When you’ve watched the blue jay video and know the hobble skirt
Awful, that fabric is amazing but why would they do that to that dress 🤣
I was onboard until I saw all the skirt around the bottom legs. Cut it at the floof and it would be really cute
I like it. The teens were a very experimental period in fashion history and alot of other art. 😻
I have a Massachusetts Friend with a family story: the family essentially watched the house burn because the ladies were wearing hubble skirts and couldn't walk let alone run
That is one of the ugliest silhouettes from history. It’s like a reverse mermaid dress *shivers*
A true clothing historian still owns articles of clothing they hate 😂
I was like “Wait, that dress is so elegant” and then she zoomed out…
Love the style and the look! Beautiful! I would wear it!
Well, it looks good from the waist up…?
THANK YOU
THE HOBBLE SKIRT NEEDS MORE HATE IN THE WORLD
Imagine trying to go to the bathroom 💀 this dress is a crime.
Dang, what a cute white and gold dress!!!
I want to know more about your corset cover!! It's so cute! Is it historically accurate?
I personally love it! It suits your frame
I love it so much 💖 It's my favorite
I love the silhouette. I am built for it.😮
I know that fascination with the orient was very big, came and went through the decades, when Britain was still occupying parts of China. this sort of reminds me of elements of Asian fashion where taking very tiny steps, and being a person of means who did not have to take wide strides would be seen as a sign of wealth
Indeed. Contemporary photos show middle class women wearing these. Working class women had lightly gathered straight skirts that allowed them to move without getting in the way.
gosh, the top half is so cute but the skirt is so gross
I’ve seen these with a drop hobble underneath, which was a narrow cloth ring around your lower calf attached by long lace or cloth strips to a waistband that prevented you from taking a big step that might tear your skirt.
It does, indeed, look quite silly.
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No just no that’s terrible
This is a silhouette that manages to be uncomfortable, and just plain unflattering SIMULTANEOUSLY!!! NO, just NO!!!!!!
It was also the ENORMOUS hats as well! Very strange.....It's no wonder WW1 happened! LOL
Hobble clothing is nowadays used in BDSM communities
Reverse mermaid gown 😭
Too bad it's gorgeous.....
Horrible. Impractical. Outlandish. I'm obsessed. 10/10.
The skirt makes you look like a mermaid trying to fit in on a game of monopoly.
To answer your question, the hobble skirt was a surprisingly conservative bit of new/revolutionary fashion, simultaneously condemned for its assocation with such fashion yet praised for restoring the traditional ladylike step (which should not be more than 14 inches)!
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I actually really like it!
It’s like pants dresses… I can’t think of a single person who would consciously wear them who had even an ounce of self awareness and a fashion sense.
If your trying to dress up you wear a dress OR nice pants!!!! “Oh but it’s comfortable”… SO ARE SWEAT PANTS, YOU MIGHT AS WELL HAVE WORN THOSE INSTEAD!!!
😂 now you KNOW why... it's not a dress for moving around in - it's for sitting (uncomfortably,) and looking pretty...(like barbie....?)
Yeah, my stride is too long for that, I'd accidently rip the seams at the bottom. 😂
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Girls with this thighs: ...
As a gal with thick thighs myself, I wouldn't survive 😂 They'd rub so badly I'd probably start a fire 🔥 😮💨
I cannot explain myself but I LOVE THIS DRESS!!!! 😂
It reminds of of the Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella movie with Brandy and Whitney Houston. Specifically Bernadette Peters' costumes.
I was really confused for most of this video, like "Wow, but why is this bad? that dress looks so HOLY SH*T WHAT HAPPENED?!" 🤣
Haha! Actually, the 1910’s IS my favorite era in fashion. It’s almost forgotten, as it happened between two iconic eras in fashion - the Edwardian and the 1920’s. But I love it!
Hmm so that's where the peplum came from. Also this was recreated in the 50s-early 70s, can be seen in Hairspray, MadMen, iconic glamour shots, hollywood period movies, Chanel 60s collection and Dior 50s-60s collections.
Intersting!
Not surprisingly, the fashion was (fortunately for women) short-lived. When the Great War broke out in 1914 & many women started volunteering in hospitals (and even driving ambulances on the battlefield), they quickly did away with such cumbersome clothing just out of necessity.
It IS pretty, save for the insanely limited foot movement and excessive "floof" of the layers off the hip...
But that skirt hem... WHY?!! WHY?!
Actually, I quite like the _look._ 😉😊
But I need to be able to move about, so- solid no. 🤷
I've seen more extreme versions of hobble skirts, though. And these days, you have fishtail/mermaid wedding dresses which are pretty much the same; except that they aren't straight line but flare out from the knee down. Still can't move around much in them. 🤷
Take off one ruffle, cut the pencil skirt to your knee and, voila!, youll have a Versace/valentino/channel/Lagarfeld type thing. 🤷🏻♀️
It looks beautiful on you but def not ideal for a dance party or even walking around 😂
Wow. Asking why. It's women's fashion, that's why. Why have jeans that are professionally tattered...why ask why?