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A hobble skirt is a skirt with a narrow enough hem to significantly impede the wearer's stride, thus earning its name.

 What's so special about a hobble skirt? Many people find hobble skirts attractive because they restrict the wearer's steps, making leg movements more deliberate, showing off the wearer's lower body while covering it at the same time, much like the corset does for the upper body.

The tight skirt that catches the wearer just behind the knees seems to work best. The thighs are held tight together, and the curves are held firm. They flex and become exaggerated when she tries to walk, and a true hobble skirt emphasizes the shape and the vulnerability of the wearer.

To prove the point, watch a woman in a tight skirt when she bends over.
However tight it is, behind her thighs you will see surplus material billowing out. The true hobble has all that surplus removed, and the seam sewn to follow the curve of the legs. Ideally, it is taken in to catch tight behind the knees, and then tapered over the calves to the ankles. The hem might be only 15 inches round at the bottom, preferably less, and sewn with a leather strap inside the hem to prevent the skirt
tearing as the wearer tries to walk.


Why do women wear Hobble Skirts?
Why have over the past two centuries women worn many variants of the hobble skirts. 

The usual answer is because fashion dictates. But they have not always been in fashion but they are still often seen at balls, the Oscars and even in high street fashion. 

 We think the answer that women still wear them is that there men like to see them wearing hobble skirts and the women know that they look exceeding good.

This was the first time I had noticed that women now wore terribly tight skirts. 

I asked Mama “why”. 
“It’s the fashion darling”, 
she replied, embarrassed. 
“But your father likes me in it”

- Sir Edward Hulton

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