Hobble skirt

A hobble skirt is a particularly narrow floor-length skirt. He first came into fashion in the 19th century. Synonyms and related terms: bondage skirt, mummy Rock (English ) hobble skirt, (French ) jupe entravée, tube skirt. A pencil skirt is in contrast to the historical hobble more than calf length, but usually ends below the knee.

History

Humpelröcke appeared several times in fashion. An early example are the skirts in 1880, which a few years later, however, were further back. In a narrower sense, the term referred to hobble the very narrow and long skirts from 1910 / 11th Especially the Humpelröcke the French fashion designer Paul Poiret became known. The common and eponymous feature is that the makers can only make small steps in it, so the awkward shuffling or limping are forced. A second period saw the narrow skirts in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly in the U.S., but they were no longer floor length. And like the Oscars in 2005 shows ( for example, Mariah Carey ), find the Humpelröcke still wearers. But you are not part of the current fashion and will be rejected by most women as uncomfortable.

In the 1910s, there have been press reports about accidents as a result of movement impairing Humpelröcke: women often fell down stairs, did not come fast enough on the street or injured themselves when getting out of carriages and automobiles. In American stations additional stages were mounted so that women could ever get into the trains, and in Dallas (USA), it was thought seriously about whether you should lower the sidewalks for safety reasons.

• Women's Clothing
• Women's Outerwear
• Kostümkunde 1960
• Kostümkunde of 1950
• Dresses skirt
• Kostümkunde the 1910s