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Joe Beckert alerted several of us to an article online with the Washington Post that is now calling for the elimination of hoop skirts past and present because they signify "the Southern Belle on her high perch." The writer is obviously not learned enough to know that the multi-layer petticoats and subsequent adaptation of the hoop skirt was a fashion trend throughout the Western Hemisphere in the 1850s and 1860s and not confined to the southern part of the U.S. It was also popular here in the 1950s.
When do we call a halt to this ridiculousness?

I was sorry to read of the death of Julian Bond today. I remember him well (and with respect) from the civil rights movement of fifty years ago.