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 >> >> >> >> > >

I can remember rumble seats in cars---I'll hush tell now--or I will be telling my real age. Ramona ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Oneal <peon@icx.net> To: <KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 5:53 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > >