Tennis Skirt

Tennis Skirt

A Tennis Skirt is an article of clothing intended for, and often worn by, women during tennis matches. They are often designed as a fairly plain or only lightly patterned skirt with small vertical pleats running around the entirety of the garment. While the name certainly indicates one intended use, due to the comfortable and often visually appealing nature of the garment, some women wear Tennis Skirt for other athletic activities or for purely fashionable reasons.

Hoop Skirts

 

Hoop Skirts

Hoop Skirts are a type of woman’s undergarment, related to the crinoline, which enjoyed a brief period of high fashion in the mid 19th century. Both were later replaced by the bustle, as woman’s fashion started to give way to more practical garments. The Hoop Skirts was worn on formal occasions by fashionable upper class women, and would not have appeared on workers and lower class women.