The
Hoop Skirt
Did you know...
...Crinoline comes from the French for 'crin' meaning
horsehair and 'linum' meaning thread?
...Fashion repeated itself again in the 1950s with the revival of the
crinoline?
Hoop Skirt Contents | Background
Portraits
of Nevada
Please direct questions to: Virginia
Vogel
URL of this document: http://www.unr.edu/sb204/theatre/hoop1.html
Last Modified: November 4, 1996
Copyright University of Nevada, Reno
July, 1996