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But there’s more to Gilpin — much, much more — than bonnets and hoopskirts.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025
This tableau vivant of corseted dancers encased in seventeenth-century hoopskirts resembles a painting by Velázquez inflected with contemporary haute-couture decadence.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019
Despite her hoopskirts, O’Hara is the most physically free I’ve ever seen her.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 27, 2015
The arrival of the paintings in Atlanta was one of the biggest events since the opening of Gone With the Wind clogged Peachtree Street with hoopskirts and Hollywood types.
From Time Magazine Archive
Susan Barrows was living in the days of hoopskirts, and now in her effort to slide through the window had been held fast.
From The Loves of Ambrose by Vandercook, Margaret
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