I'm still new at this, but I just want to add that we called them pencil skirts. They were *sharpened down to a point". I enjoy the List and all the wonderful Ky memories. Pat James -----Original Message----- From: Pat Oneal <peon@icx.net> To: KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com <KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, September 19, 1999 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [KYL&F] THE HOBBLE SKIRT---To Quote Nancy! >I never knew the straight skirts as hobble skirts. They were also called >stovepipe skirts. My dad had one of those big old Hudsons, the kind you had >to step up and over to get inside the backseat. Well, in order to get your >leg high enough to go over the rim, you had to pull that straight skirt up >high enough. And, high enough was way above the knees. Yes, that could >attract a little attention now and then! Pat >-----Original Message----- >From: Jan Craven <jcraven@usunwired.net> >To: KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com ><KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com> >Date: Sunday, September 19, 1999 5:42 PM >Subject: Re: [KYL&F] THE HOBBLE SKIRT---To Quote Nancy! > > >>OHHH, THOSE skirts. Yep! Louisiana gals wore them. >>*WE* were a little more refined than YOU.....WE called them >>"straight skirts".......<but we hobbled just the same> >>J >>At 05:19 PM 9/19/1999 -0400, Ramona wrote: >>>To Quote Nancy: >>>"....they were so tight you couldn't walk you hobbled along." >>>COOL >>>My husband starting remembering the hobble skirts---and became so >>>over-whelmed with memories he immediately feel asleep. >>>Wonderful snoring is now going on behind me. >>>Ramona >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > >