New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-15
H00PSKIRT At LAST.
IHUades Nesc-York to Perfect the
Female form DiUine.

The much bearded hoopskirt has arrived.
There is doubt about this for the article
can be seen any time to-day and tomorrow at
the Hotel Victoria. 27th-st and Broadway. The
thing has been declared impossible and unlim-
tied discussion has been heaped upon the idea,
but facts are facts and the hoopskirt is here
a ver.table material reality, with hoops OF
steel. not whalebone or featherbone or cord. or
any such miserable makeshift but good. sub
stzntisl. bonafide steel
II isn't SO big as the 1880 hoopskirt. and it
hasn't so many hoops. but in this essential
character the two garments. If garments they
may be called, are one and the same.
There is one consoling feature about the new
hoopskirt. however. Il is called by another
name. The modern woman would never think
Of wearing q hoopskirt. Certainly not. But a
cirelet is different matter and under this name
women are wearing the tackle not only
without protest, but with soy and gladness So
a. least declares the inventor of the harness
3 Chicago dressmaker. Her own customers
have welcomed the device. and in France she
found the circlet accepted as a matter Of course.
though no one knew anything about hOopskirts.
We had TO come 10 it." said the inventor
yesterday. For the last two years skirts have
been getting fuller and fuller. and every one has
been puzzled TO know how 10 hold them out
from the feet. A couple Of much frilled silk
petticoats Will do II. but these are dreadfully
expensive. very bu-densome and not clean. So
cord snd haircloth and whalebone have been
Used. all with very unsatisfactory results.
at the beginning Of last season I began put
ting whalebone in the drop skirts. but my Gus
toners found 1t almost impossible TO pack "a lot
Of dresses with dropskirts OF this kind. That
led me 10 the invention OF the hoopskirt and, by
the way, my own customers have taken il UP.
I am convinced that il viii meet a long felt
want
1T Is only necessary 10 have one OF these
skirts for they are made with removable
hounces TO match different dresses. Abroad
they sell these hounces finished with a bead
ing at the top, so that they be laced onto
the hoopskirt with no trouble at all. and no
doubt they viii soon have the same thing here.
Although the skirt is stifened with steel II is
very flexible, and can be packed in surprisingly
small space"
The hoops Of the circIet are all below the knee.
SO as 20 hold the skirt out around the feet, and
retain the much admired smooth fl around the
hips and Il is finished with deep founce 70
give soft effect at the edge. Il is said not to
.. IN the way when the vearer is getting on
and of cars or sitting down. and Madame
Hosac has found that she can hold Up her skirt
much more easily when II is draped over
ctrclet-
$50 O'Clock Miss Jane Brewster viii demon
citrate the Projections OF the hoopSk1rt, showing
with the help or living models the lines Of
alleged beauty which il irlparLs 10 the figure
Miss Brewster is also demonstrating a corset
which laces UP the front instead Of the back
She SAYS that this corset gives a support TO the
abdomen that cannot be obtained with the cor
sat that laces al the back, besides which IL is
naturally much more convenient for the woman
who has no maid 10 lace her.
with the hoopskirt and the lace front cor
set" declares Miss Brewster we shall have the
ideal feminine figure