| To critically examine these hoops -- to get
the best effect -- one should stand on the corner of Montgomery and look
up a steep street like Clay or Washington. As the ladies loop their dresses
up till they lie in folds and festoons on the spreading hoop, the effect
presented by a furtive glance up a steep street is very charming. It reminds
me of how I used to peep under circus tents when I was a boy and see a lot
of mysterious legs tripping about with no visible bodies attached to them.
And what handsome vari-colored, gold-clasped garters they wear now-a-days!
But for the new spreading hoops, I might have gone on thinking ladies still
tied up their stockings with common strings and ribbons as they used to
do when I was a boy and they presumed upon my youth to indulge in little
freedoms in the way of arranging their apparel which they do not dare to
venture upon in my presence now. - "The Fashions," Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, February 1866 |
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