The effect was like a hoopskirt from the front, minus fabric.    From Wordnik.com.  [O Tannen-what? - A Dress A Day] Reference

Or haywire, heroin, and hoopskirt, as my computer would prefer it.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm A Stranger Here Myself]

Otherwise, we open on an actress in a hoopskirt and two unknown young men.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life in Letters] Reference

Also, when Lizzie discovers the metal hoopskirt that some of the white women wear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scandalous Book Review: Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez] Reference

Some tricksters are inspired to don the hoopskirt and whalebone costumes of Marie Antoinette.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Halloween, Poli-Book Best Seller List - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Emma owned a property so "old Charleston" it should have been dressed in a hoopskirt and crinolines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Break No Bones]

The first five feet had revealed nothing but fragments of kitchen pottery of our time and a fairly perfect hoopskirt of Garibaldian date.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

If nothing else, this tells me that if I ever write about a woman wearing a hoopskirt, I'd better do some research, at least asking a few women about their experiences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Things Writers Need to Know] Reference

She wasn't so impractical as to wear a full hoopskirt in proper belle fashion, but the dress was full and red and would have been more appropriate for a night at the opera in the 1920s than at a modern dinner gathering.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Race] Reference

He's more fun than a Harlem goat with a hoopskirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero] Reference

Russia, though it looked so big, was only a hoopskirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Ours] Reference

An old hoopskirt came with it, and Betsy laughed and threw it away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tik-Tok of Oz]

I'm a dingy old shadow in a daguerreotype picture, in pantalets, cuddled up against my mother's hoopskirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hoosier Chronicle] Reference

The thing frightened Hank, who had never seen a hoopskirt before, and he kept a good distance away from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tik-Tok of Oz]

It may be well imagined that I preferred to paint her in a plain gown and especially without a wide hoopskirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun] Reference

"I'm very lazy on Saturday morning, and (my parents) wake me up early and put me in a big hoopskirt," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natchez Democrat] Reference

Liberty Shop early and late, where I promise to sell anything from an old hoopskirt to a decayed piano at the highest market price.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls] Reference

I particularly admire these things, these toys: the little dog, the sled, the lady with the hoopskirt, all these things are pure silver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

A WOMAN'S idea of moving is to wear a pair of odd shoes, her husband's linen duster, a damaged hoopskirt, and a last year's jockey turned hind-side before.    From Wordnik.com.  [They All Do It; or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and his Neighbors Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important Occasions ...] Reference

In the house, Mrs. Croix discarded the hoopskirt, and the classic folds of her soft muslin gown revealed a figure as superb in contour as it was majestic in carriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conqueror] Reference

Her hoopskirt was small, but the other women were inclined to the extreme of the fashion; as they saw it in the Godey's Lady's Book they or their dressmakers subscribed to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sleeping Fires: a Novel] Reference

I ran as fast as my broken hoopskirt / bustle / shoes (they somehow expanded because of the humidity, and I couldn't keep them on my feet!) would let me, and once in the bathroom, bawled my eyes out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weddingbee] Reference

It had a woodcut frontispiece of Little Robert in a roundabout and baggy trousers, inadequately embracing his cowering mother's hoopskirt, while his father, the Drunkard in question, staggered remorsefully back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wishing-Ring Man] Reference

He'll drive up to the door with that old hoopskirt of a horse of his -- that's what the critter looks like, one of them old-fashioned hoop-skirts; there was nothin 'to them but framework and a hollow inside, and that's all there is to that horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary-'Gusta] Reference

It pretended to have a likeness of Charlotte, "taken from an original portrait," but looking like a fashion-plate, Charlotte being arrayed in an evening dress supported by a hoopskirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlotte Temple, a tale of truth; reprinted from the rare first American edition (1794), over twelve hundred errors in later editions being corected, and the preface restored; with an historical and biographical introduction, bibliography, etc., by Francis W. Halsey.] Reference

Eddie Cantor wore a hoopskirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Smoke] Reference

The skirt is rigid, like a hoopskirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [W: As In WTF] Reference

My spell check thinks it's a hoopskirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-03] Reference

The little hoopskirt daffs are the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sunny Woodland-GBDW* « Fairegarden] Reference

"I put on a hoopskirt one time," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference

Obtained from the hoopskirt and tin can eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games For All Occasions] Reference