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Walking Paseo Pescador in Centro and we happened upon this gentleman and his daughter sitting on a bench enjoying the view of Zihuatanejo Bay. We stopped to chat and he kept pointing at my beard and moustache. It wasn't long before a photo was agreed to.
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At the 2016 Civil War Weekend Fashion show held on the Liendo Plantation near Hempstead Texas, fashions from before the US Civil War to World War I were displayed. One of the later fashions is worn by this model. Over a hundred years ago during the Edwardian era, a fashion called the hobble skirt became suddenly popular especially with the younger, fashionable ladies. The style was thought too provocative by some, others considered it dangerous and even others thought it to be both provocative and dangerous. It was a narrow, full length, almost skin tight skirt that certainly accentuated a woman's figure, The fashion was inspired by Oriental and Directoire style crazes of the time. These skirts were extremely slim to the point of forcing women who wore them to take tiny, mincing "geisha-like" steps, and nearly barring them from independent movement. Paul Poriet, a Paris couturier, claimed to have created the skirt but the narrowing of the skirts had began with the popularity of the bustle in the 1880's. The hobble skirt first arrived on the scene on both sides of the Atlantic in 1908/1909. It was extremely popular between 1910 and 1913 and had almost disappeared by 1915.
Because the skirt was so long, tight and restrictive it was sometimes difficult to walk, thus, turning the dress into a tripping hazard. Some young ladies started accessorizing with dainty canes like the one held by the blonde in the photo, in part, to help stabilize their walking. The hobble skirt was widely denounced as unsafe, and some employers even barred their female workers from wearing them to work. The newspapers of the day reported countless accidents involving hobble skirts, with many women tripping, falling, and even breaking their legs while maneuvering in the skirt. As concerned mounted, many Parisian couturiers began to characterize the trend as "American".
In a case of fashion impacting other technologies, an American firm designed "Hobble Skirt" cars for city tramways. The correct name for these trams was Low Level Center Entrance cars or Hedley-Doyle cars after their designers, Frank Hedley, who was Vice-President and General Manager of the New York Railways Company, and James S. Doyle, Superintendent of Car Equipment. In 1912 they produced three prototype cars for the company. The sills of the doors were only about 8 inches from street level and once inside the floor sloped up into each saloon to give space under the floor for the bogies'. By 1914, tramlines throughout the world were equipped with "Hobble Skirt" cars.
It seems strange, that in the era of women suffrage, when strides were made by women in politics, business and education, their dresses would become restrictive to movement. In society, in general, women's role was becoming less restricted but who can figure out fashion?
Information for this caption from:
mentalfloss.com/article/58897/hundred-year-old-fashion-fa...
The Hobble Skirt
March 4, 2009 by Camille Hadley Jones
www.edwardianpromenade.com/beauty/the-hobble-skirt/
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Ma meilleure amie qui porte le même prénom que moi et que je connais depuis... 50 ans!
My best friend who carries the same first name as me and whom I know since ... 50 years!
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