On Oct. 21, 1910, the live musical comedy “The White Hen” opened at Petaluma’s Hill Opera House, setting off a new fashion craze in town. The fashion foray was led by the traveling theater company’s ...
In 1914, the hobble skirt was all the rage. To eyes used to seeing women's bodies enveloped in yards of fabric, these skirts were a shocking reminder that women had ankles, legs, and derrières. While ...
SIR – I was amused to read that Rebecca Hall, the actress starring in the BBC/HBO period drama Parade’s End, attributes the origin of the “hobble” skirt to a desire for “fetishisation of the female by ...
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