A discussion board for HobbleSkirt.com en-US Back in Oct I promised I'd submit some actual New York Times articles on hobble skirts that I'd copied from microfilm some years back. I did a fairly extensive search on the period of 1911 through 1914. The result was a surprisingly amusing series of short articles of human interest that showed up in various sections of the paper. I'll start typing them in as able. I think you'll find the content is enhanced by that era's use of language. Most of these articles come from 1911 when hobble skirts made their appearance and were a novelty. In fact, in some places they became an uproar, though not perhaps as much as "harem skirts" or "harem trousers", which were really outragious and indecent. Further, I copied a number of pictures (mostly drawings in those days) that went along with the Sunday fashion sections. Interestingly, although hobble skirts continued to appear, the "hobble" description was largely dropped after 1911 or 12, and instead they were referred to simply as narrow styles or tight skirts or some such. Women were after that look of flourishing up top while slinking narrowly down to the feet, and among the fashionable, this was the sought-after asthetic of the day. Here's the first article: HOBBLE RIOT IN NINTH AVE. Two Girls Who Ventured There Forced to Call on Police for Help. The hobble skirt is still a curiostiy on upper Ninth Avenue. Two young women so attired appeared there yesterday afternoon and small boys at once set up a cry of "Hobble, hobble." In a few minutes a crowd of boys and young men collected and laughed and jeered at them. Thoroughly frightened the girls sought the West Forty-seventh Street Police Station. The journey from Ninth Avenue to the station house was one of agony for them, since to run was impossible, and the crowd pressed close. Lieut. Rheimich, who was on desk duty, summoned the reserves, and six patrolmen went into the street and tried to drive away the crowd, but the street kept filling up. After a long wait the two girls started home, escorted by Detective Noonan and Patrolman Pritchard. After a few steps, however, the girls begged to be taken back, the jeers and cheers proving too much for them. A little later, with a still stronger guard of police, who formed a cordon around the two young women, the journey home was made. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:05:00 GMT My husband likes me to wear an ankle length hobble skirt when we go out to a restaurant or the theatre sometimes. It's black leather, very tight of course and I usually wear boots underneath. It takes me ages to go any distance of course, but he loves to see me take very small steps in my heels. Going upstairs is most difficult, of course, as the leather is so very tight, but he really enjoys it, and so do I, to be honest. Do any other ladies wear hobble skirts when going out? http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:24:00 GMT Wow! I forgot about Jayne Mansfield!!! She looks amazing. Too bad she never was around to wear a latex hobbleskirt... http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sun, 15 Jan 2006 02:33:00 GMT I just saw pictures of Maike in the gallery. Where did that dress come from? It would certainly be a challenge to wear (maybe put on) and it would make a lovely addition to my collection. I'd like to know where I can get one. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:01:00 GMT I have been viewing the gallery, which gets more and more interesting and was wondering if anyone could tell me when and where the concert was in which Mariah is wearing the gold dress (the first one in the series of pictures) and also that stunning pink dress. I do hope someone can help and I would thank them for their time and trouble. Hey, Have Fun Miss Sandra http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:22:00 GMT Anyone into long tight sweaterdresses? My favourite fetish would have to be a turtleneck sweaterdress, ankle length and very tight, matched with high heel lace-up boots and a knee length tight cardigan, buttoned all the way to the bottom. Made from angora or mohair preferably. On a warm day, oh what a punishment! http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:58:00 GMT Saw a scene in a Lizzie Maguire movie my friend's daughter was watching. Hillary Duff wearing all kinds of hobbleskirts. It was a movie where Lizzie Maguire goes to Rome. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:30:00 GMT Happy Halloween!!!! Don't forget to think of Morticia Addams my hero!!!! She's the ultimate hobbleskirt queen in my book!!!! http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:50:00 GMT Not too long ago I was in France, and passing through an open air market was a young woman in a tight denim mermaid skirt; the tightest I've ever seen. She was very pretty, and her shapely figure was brought out by the skirt (actually it was a dress - she had on a jacket) which clung to her legs past her knees, then flared to her ankles, covered in high heeled boots. Her walk was a wonder to watch, with a subtle sway as her knees and thighs strained at the tight fabric. She was with a boyfriend and her family, I believe. Later, I saw her standing outside a shop, hand on a hip, with a knee pushed out against the boundaries of the skirt, which were minimal indeed. A great travel memory. My girlfriend also describes that when she was younger and in Japan, she had a chance to wear a Kimono. She says that the way they are wrapped, there's not much room for the legs (especially if skinny like her) and they simply don't come unwrapped while moving - Japan is essentially a country with a tradition of hobble skirts. And with potential pitfalls: when her friend was winding her obie (long sash that winds many times around the waist over the kimono and ties in back), she accidently bound my friend's trailing sleeves into it. There was no getting the arms free, either: the sleeves are used like pockets, and my friend had objects in them such as a camera that would not pull through. She had to untie her and start over. On the note of sleeves (not skirt discussion, but like heels, a great adjunct) I once saw a woman at a medieval fair dressed in a busty lace-up dress with off-the-shoulder sleeves that were very tight on the upper arms - so much so she had to lean back and struggle to reach the shoulder height counter. The whole outfit was very becoming, and I doubt she could have unlaced herself. The question is, have any of the women corresponding here worn off-shoulder sleeves they felt confined their arms? How about other confining sleeves? Have you combined them with hobble skirts? I would like to express my gratitude to all women who have traded comfort and freedom for fashion. You are all wonderful. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:32:00 GMT Two of the best hobble skirt sequences I've seen: in "Two Weeks Notice", Sandra Bullock has an extended scene scurrying in a long narrow bridesmaid dress and high heels, her arms in a shawl tied in back suggestive of confinement. This was a fine surprise in an already decent chic flick, and by itself worth the price of the movie. In a considerably dumber movie, "The Sweetest Thing", but again, worth the price, Cameron Diaz dons a tight midi length skirt (and high heels) and spends a considerable amount of time plaintifly trying to get around in it, even calling it "bondage". Yum! http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:54:00 GMT Hi I posted a while ago about when I ended up playing footy in a long denim skirt, well I've another story from last weekend. Our school was fund raising by people paying to absail off the sports hall roof. Well we went along to watch. There weren't many people having a go so they tried to persuade me and my friends to have a go. Well eventually most of my friends agreed one by one and had a go, and then it was my turn. Trouble was I was wearing a skirt that I had bought off ebay a few days ago, it was heavy non-stretch denim and came just below knee length and was v tight, clamping my thighs together! I've tried to post a link to a picture of it that was the pic on e-bay. Well the problem with a skirt was that the harness has straps that go between your legs that is impossible to do with a skirt. However one of my friends suggested that I put on the harness under my skirt! After a bit of pressure I eventually agreed and I took the harness inside the school and one of my friends helped me put it on. The weather was quite chilly so luckily I had a pair of thick black tights on which stopped the straps being too uncomfortable between my legs! After a struggle I just about managed to pull my skirt up over the harness and do it up. The belt part of the harness was just above the waist band of the skirt so you could still attach the carabiner to the front of it without any trouble. There were also straps than went over your shoulders and fasted across your chest. I was wearing a padded body warmer so we did the straps up and I body warmer back on over the top. Well I was a sight I can tell u, absailing down from the roof dressed like that! The absailing part wasn't too difficult cause you are really just hanging from the harness, the most difficult bit was getting up the ladder onto the roof in the first place! In fact it was such fun I even had a second go. However the 2nd time when I got to about a metre from the ground they stopped paying the rope out so I was left hanging there. I soon realized what was happening as one of my friends came running out of the school with a camera. She took several pics of me whilst I was helplessly hanging there kicking out and struggling in my skirt! Still it was all good fun! At last I was let down and we stayed around a bit watching a few more people having a go until it was time for them to pack up. Trouble was by this time someone had locked the school and as I didn't fancy dropping my skirt in public to take the harness of I kept it on until I got to my friends house 2 hours later!! Luckily it wasn't too noticeable under the skirt and body warmer. Has anyone else had anything similar happen, when you’ve wanted to do something like that which u weren't expecting and u attempted it in unsuitable clothes?! http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:35:00 GMT Can we expect to see any clips or stills from Die Feuerzangenbowle on the video page at any time? How authentic is/are the hobble skirt(s)and how long do we see it/them on screen? http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:10:00 GMT I thought I would share a story with you all. I typically wear long tight skirts to school , and yesterday was no exception. All was well with weather in the high 80's and lots of sun. I found out that my typical parking lot about two blocks from class was being re-surfaced or fixed or something. I then had to drive around to find another place to park. The only spot that I could find was about 10- 12 blocks away. With time getting late I not only had to go many times further , but do so at a pretty fast pace. My long skirt had little stretch and made for really small steps. I stopped to unzip the bottom as I started to realize that I was going to be very late. and as I started getting beyond hot trying to run in small steps in the heat. I stopped and found that the zipper was hopeless and stuck all the way down. It took me more than 20 minutes to get to class. I arrived late with sweat on my face and feet that could stand no more running in my four inch heel sandals. I made it through the class with a few odd looks. My skirts usually don't look fetish , they look more fashion and uncomfortable. I can step about 12 inches at a time in the skirt that I wore yesterday. I really enjoyed the sensation on the walk back to my car. My boyfriend gave me a great foot rub last night and that made the day a good thing. Today I assume that all will be the same for parking, so I am wearing a long tight black spandex skirt and black tall boots with quite tall heels as well. I am looking forward to the long walk as long as I have a bit more time to get there. The temp is again in the 80's , but I hope having a bit more time will leave me more attractive looking at my class. I am not info the fetish style clothes much, but clothes chosen for being tighly fitted can still offer a lot of fun out in public. Wendy http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:14:00 GMT Hello, I would like to get in touch with dutch ladies that love to wear hobbleshirts or dresses and that would maybe love to pose in front of my camera. I look forward to hear from you, also if you do not like to pose in front of the camera but maybe like to go out sometime when you wear your hobble skirt or dress. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:35:00 GMT Moving the scarf discussion to this thread to avoid topic confusion. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:30:00 GMT While watching "Funny Girl" for the umpteenth time the other day, I noticed that just before my favourite scene (the one in the clip on this site when the Ziegfeld girls are disembarking from a train and the girl with dark hair is walking in a hobble skirt so tight she can't keep up with her friend) you can see the same girl coming down the train steps in the same outfit, but with a substantial walking split at the back. Was she therefore only pretending to be hobbled, or did they sew up the split for her walk? If so, why not sew up the other girls' outfits as well, as it would have been most inaccurate for one girl to hobble herself if fashion (a tyrannical force then) did not force everyone to do the same.I have always taken the fashions seen in the station scene in this film to be authentic. We are led to believe by fashion historians that the hobble skirt was an outrageous craze, and for a while, women (especially limelight-seeking showgirls, at a guess) competed to be the most extremely hobbled. Can anyone trace who the actress was? If she's still around, I think we should get her to spill the beans on the shooting of this scene. I also think we should lobby film directors and costumiers to insist that actresses dressed in Hobble Skirt Era outfits should damn-well put up with being hobbled, even if they do think it makes them look silly! Helena Bonham-Carter may be known for her accurately-corseted historical roles, but in Wings Of A Dove, those hobble skirt-era clothes were much too easy to stride in, as they were in "Titanic". http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:37:00 GMT http://www.sexitop.com/images/8013_c.jpg http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:18:00 GMT WOW!!!! What a skirt and what a body in it!!!! Talk about accentuating the curves!! http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Mon, 19 Sep 2005 01:42:00 GMT I've always been wondering about this, and it's a bit vulgar, but I'll just ask: Is there a fetish hobble skirt that's made with something for the wearer's penis, like a hole or penis sheath? Just a thought. :) http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:45:00 GMT Since it asks that we do not use html in the comment, please forgive me for this. I do not know how to post pictures, so I am merely going to give links for you to cut and paste into your browser if you would like to see the finished tail design. Angela "Garnette" Mullens www.MerfolkTails.com www.MerfolkTails.com/Sidefrontcloseup.jpg www.MerfolkTails.com/suit.jpg www.MerfolkTails.com/Suitwithhead.jpg www.MerfolkTails.com/zipperback.jpg www.MerfolkTails.com/SideandDorsalback.jpg http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:43:00 GMT Hi, it's me again... posting about something other than exercising in skirts again. ;) Since I'm a male doing transvestism at home, w/out anyone else knowing, I've always been wondering how I could go out in my tight drag outfit. Then I wondered that since everyone's asleep in the middle of the night, and I'm awake, why don't I romp around at that time in my neighborhood? I've yet to try that though, and yes, it does sound dangerous (In the Philippines, yeah, you would think). But my skirts are not too tight, and I try to overdress like a 19th century girl. I have a wig too. And in the dimness I hope they can't make out my features. I wonder if any guy has tried this? http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:47:00 GMT If you are a woman (or not), please tell me your opinion about men wearing hobble dresses/skirts, including fabric suggestions, accessories, lenght, activities appropriated to do when a man is wearing those clothes etc. Answer me, please. Truly yours, hobble_tight4 http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:38:00 GMT Sarah's comments are some of the most accurate that I have seen about wearing straight skirts, she has obviously worn them for a long time and knows what she is talking about. As a child in the mid fifties I became fascinated by the restricting calf-length straight skirts that young women were wearing at the time, I did a lot of research on them in the late fifties to mid-sixties. I learnt a lot about the problems of wearing straight skirts from information gleaned from girlfriends. The fifties straight skirt was a product of the times. Its popularity with the masses was due more to economics than fashion. In the fifties clothes were expensive, there was no cheap imports or synthetic fabrics. Most young women were poorly paid and a good quality skirt was more than a weeks wages, consequently most women made their own clothes and dressmaking was taught at school. The long straight skirt originated in the late 40's as a more acceptable alternative to Dior's 'New look' who used an unacceptable amount of fabric in his long full skirts in the austere years after the war. The straight skirt seems to have been designed mainly for middle class women who could easily cope in such a restricting skirt as they had access to cars and did not have to work. But the straight skirt soon gained popularity with working class women as it was cheap and easy to make. The straight skirt was the ideal solution for women living on a low budget, you could even buy kits to make straight skirts at Haberdashery shops, consisting of a zip, button and cut-out fabric, all you had to do was sew it up. The down side was that women had to do everything in a skirt in the fifties as trousers were not an option. A straight skirt with its narrow calf-length hemline was far from ideal as a practical skirt for work and daywear, but its elegance and sophistication, together with its low cost and ease of construction insured its continuing popularity well into the sixties. I never heard it called a 'Hobble skirt' and rarely a 'Pencil skirt' it was always known as the 'Straight skirt' or more commonly, the 'Tight skirt' The narrow calf-length hemline on the fifties straight skirt was the thing that concerned women most about this skirt style. Skirts could not be slit for ease of movement in the fifties because that would show too much leg and be in bad taste! To solve the problem most straight skirts had a small knife pleat at the back to ease the skirt's tight hemline, but it was more for show than ease of movement, if ladies took too big a step the hemline caught tightly around their legs. As regards 'Do women like restricting skirts ?' I'm afraid that my research on the fifties straight skirt lead me to believe that they do not. Most women regarded the hobbling characteristics of a straight skirt as an undesirable by-product of the skirt style. Skirt manufactures knew that women disliked the hobbling action of the fifties straight skirts and they always played it down in their skirt adverts, stressing that their skirts had a kick pleat at the back for ease of movement. I have a great picture from a fifties skirt advert of a model demonstrating the kick pleat at the back of a straight skirt, with a caption saying. "See the generous kick pleat designed for ease of movement" which demonstrates how paranoid some women were about being hobbled in straight skirts. Several girls I knew found the narrow hemline on these skirts very irritating. It must have been a common problem as you would often see girls standing around jukeboxes in coffee bars, fidgeting awkwardly in straight skirts and flexing the hemline tight around their legs. As Sarah said, Women would strive to create an atmosphere of sophistication and elegance in a straight skirt, the last thing that they wanted was for someone to ask them what the skirt was like to walk in, and more embarrassing, to demonstrate its tight hemline. Women in straight skirts had to be very careful not to get caught out by the limitations of their skirts. In a straight skirt it was very easy to go from sophisticated and elegant, to hobbled and awkward and become a source of amusement. There were several tricks that women used, to deal with the problems of tight skirts. High heels were worn with a straight skirt as they made the skirt easier to walk in. Women would walk with their hands on their thighs so that they could discreetly slide up their skirts to get the hemline off their calve muscles and around the narrower part of their legs just below their knees to give them more room to walk. Women in straight skirts hated high steps and would avoid them like a plague, but getting on a Bus always caught them out. The trick was to step up as high as they could and slide that leg across the front of the other and angle it up and hope that they could reach the step. If not they had to suffer the embarrassment of hitching their skirt up in front of the Bus queue. A lot of women were embarrassed by the fact that they could not walk properly in a straight skirt and felt very self-conscious when they wore one, specially if they did like straight skirts and had to wear them as I requirement of their employment. Girls who had spent their school days in flared skirts had quite a shock when they started their first job as a shop assistant and found themselves hobbling in a straight skirt all day. There was a young lady I used to see at the Bus stop on my way to school in the mornings. She worked as a shop assistant in a fashion shop in the town and always wore a long slim-fitting straight black skirt. The skirt was properly supplied by her employers, she was tall and slim and she must have found the skirt very tedious to walk in. She used to used to hide it under a long raincoat which had slit pockets, She always walked with one hand in her pocket, but I knew that she was really hitching up her tight skirt to walk. She always looked embarrassed when she saw me as she must have guessed I knew her secret. By the later part of the fifties young women were becoming more active, The had bicycles, some had motor scooters. Their boyfriends had scooters and motorbikes and the tight calf-length hemline on their straight skirts was becoming more of an embarrassment. It caught over the bike frame when they tried to ride their bikes and it prevented them from riding on the backs of their boyfriends scooter or motorbike. Riding a motor scooter in a long straight skirt and high heels must have been very nerve wracking, but a young woman who worked in the high class ladies shop in the same street that I worked in 1958 used to do it everyday. She had a special technique to cope with the fact that she could not get her legs apart to stand astride it. To watch her kick start it was pure poetry in motion. Her straight skirt prevented her from standing astride it and reaching back to kick start it. Instead she had to stand on the right-hand side of the scooter were the kick-start was and reach up backwards with her foot to operate the kick-start. Once she had got the scooter started she had to half sit on the seat otherwise she could not get her foot down on the road. When she had to stop at the traffic lights she had to almost get off the machine to hold it up. In the summer she used to eat her lunch at the local harbour, I used to cycle down and eat mine there just to watch her ride in that tight skirt.They were great days in the fifties. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:47:00 GMT Just wanted to reiterate the latest update (see our homepage) - we're looking for a few volunteers to start a Hobble Skirt Pin Ups section. For each pin up we'd show a small profile - one or two photos, and a bit of text about them. This is intended to personalize the site a bit and show examples of hobble skirt enthusiasts. Please go to the Pin Up Entry page if you are interested (click on the link below)! http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Fri, 08 Jul 2005 20:20:00 GMT What sort of hobble-skirt-featuring fiction do you like? Most of us probably know of classics like Hired Help (see link below), or the occasional features in John Willie's Bizarre - is there a story (or stories) that you can suggest? http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Fri, 08 Jul 2005 17:54:00 GMT It has been quiet hasn't it? Here in London I was beginning to think the hobble had faded into oblivion, but the position has improved a bit. During the week I was at an exhibition and spotted a young woman with an ankle length denim skirt that wasa narrow all the way down to the ankles, and from the back view certainly had no slit. I walked round her and looked back, and saw there was no slit at the front either! This was looking interesting. She eventually moved off and could get only a few inches of separation between her feet. This looked so good, but she was only dawdling around the exhibition - I would have loved to see her attempting full flight along the road. When she stopped and I got close to her again I could see that there had been a slit at the back - about 18" - but this had been very carefully sewn up and was barely visible. Now that really was something - she had a skirt which was already tight to the calves, and is was deliberately sewn up, ths making walking much more difficult! There have been other sightings in London, usually skirts which are narrow to the calf but then slit. I will let you know of any more spectacular ones! http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:49:00 GMT Referring to my collection of tight skirts iamges under 'Gallery', I will have more very tight skirt and boot images put up on my site soon. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:57:00 GMT http://www.celebritypicturesarchive.com/pictures/a/audrey-marnay/audrey-marnay-004.jpg http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sat, 04 Jun 2005 05:00:00 GMT http://www.weekiwachee.com/photo/thumbnails.php?album=7&page=1 http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Fri, 03 Jun 2005 16:48:00 GMT Who is Amanda? She needs to add more pictures!!! What a cutie. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:56:00 GMT Hi guys. I went to a party over the weekend, with a theme being "Extremes". You know, the brightest clothes, most colors, baggiest, smallest, etc., my favorite "tightest". Well, I dragged out my famous black hobbleskirt. It took awhile to wriggle into it, as when the pics here were taken, I had a 38-28-40 figure. Now my hips are 46-47. Add to that my thighs have gotten bigger in proportion, and well, I knew I was in for a night. My poor boyfriend had to put me on a hand truck/two wheeled dolly to get me out of the house and into the car. Then he buckled me in, and off we went. Once we arrived, I took my time getting out and doing my best Morticia Addams shuffle/wiggle to the fun. My friends were speechless, especially my best friend, who said she was going to beat me in the tightest contest. She had a latex dress on that looked positively baggy compared to me, and beleive me, it was under tension all over her body. Eventually we were having fun and I tried to mingle, but it wasn't easy. At one point I decided to dance the twist (what other choice did I have?) and someone filmed it. I looked like jello on springs. Talk about a ripple effect. Anyway, I won the tightest clothes prize (yay me!) and was enjoying myself when my friend dropped her drink by me. Of course, both of us bent over to pick it up and suddenly we heard lots of cameras clicking. Well, that's what you get. Later on (after some alcohol) another friend remarked that if my skirt were green I'd look like I was being eaten by a giant carnivorous plant. You guessed it, we emptied one of those huge (2-3 foot deep) clay pots on the deck, the hostess of the party had some green running tight type garment which were going to become part of some costume, and I found myself wriggling into these now. They were rather large, so I pulled one leg of them over my lega up ro my stomach, and had my boyfriend put the other leg over my upper body. Then he pulled the drawstring tight so no skin would show and everything would stay in place. the hostess got a sunflower costume top from her daughter's school play. It looked like I was about to be swallowed at any second, as my nose and eyes were all you could see. We filled the dirt back in and I played the part of plantfood, mmmppphhhing, wiggling and bending to try and escape my doom. Everyone thought I was nuts, but we were all having a blast. The only down side was that I was on the deck in a high traffic area, and my butt got grabbed and poked more than I would have wanted. Of course, considering how huge it is, I figure most of it was because it was in the way. Oh, not to be outdone, my friend decided to become a mummy, but used electric extension cord, so she was this big orange hourglass. Maybe we should all drink less... http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Tue, 31 May 2005 23:27:00 GMT Would mermaid costumes be considered hobbleskirts? The better ones fit like a hobbleskirt, especially the latex ones. what do you think? http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Wed, 25 May 2005 20:31:00 GMT I HAVE ALL WAYS WANTED A CORSET AND HOBBLESKIRT BUT MY MUM ALL WAYS SAID NO BUT I GOT ONE ANY WAY IT IS A LONG LINE CORSET FROM ARMPIT TO JUST ABOVE THE LEGS I HAVE JUST BEEN LACED INTO IT FOR THE FIRST TIME MY MUM SAID IT WILL HAVE TO BE CLOSED FULLY THIS WAS VERY TIGHT I CAN NOT MOVE SHE THEN PUT A LOCKING FLAP OVER THE LACE TO STOP ME FROM TAKING IT OFF THEN CAME THE HOBBLESKIRT I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS IT ZIPS DOWN THE BACK WITH LOCKING STRAPS TOP AND BOTTOM AND ON THE CORSET http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sun, 15 May 2005 07:48:00 GMT Hope you like some of my collection of very tight denim stretch tube skirts. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:16:00 GMT where did you buy that red outfit,i want one. and who is san, http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:22:00 GMT I just found some pics of me from the ill fated claypit photoshoot. The one where I wore my hobbleskirt and wiggled out onto what I thought was solid ground and ended up sinking up to my neck. I'll scan them soon. Talk about fun, embarrassing and terrifying all at once. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:25:00 GMT Has anyone ever done there housework in a Hobble skirt/dress ? I have tried it in my Hobble dress and corset it did take me a long time to do it but was rather enjoyable :) If i dropped something on the floor though it had to stay there was no way i could pick it up :) http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sat, 26 Mar 2005 10:49:00 GMT I would LOVE to see pictures on tall ladies wearing long straight button-up the back skirts.. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:27:00 GMT Hi All, stumbled on this site and thought I'd share something that happened to a while ago I was out with a group of my friends and i was wearing an ankle length denim skirt. I'd bought this skirt fairly recently, it was tight fitting which meant I could only take fairly short steps and it was difficult going up stairs and stuff. It was a bit of a pain but cos I'd got lots of complements i liked wearing it and put up with the difficulties. On this occasion we were walking past some playing fields near where I live and a group of boys were kicking a football around. As we walked past they challenged us to a game of football. My friends sometimes wore skirts but on this occasion it just happened they were all in jeans. Anyway we took them up on their challenge and I joined in, despite my handicap. I think I must have been a site trying to kick a ball around in my tight skirt! By using one hand to hitch it up a bit I almost came close to scoring a goal!!!! Go girl! http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:39:00 GMT I am guy who loves to wear only long straight skirts, I am very tall , 6 foot , 6 inches tall, I am looking for anyone who would either sell or have made me the skirt I am looking for. I am looking for long wool straight skirt, with lining inside, 40 inches long, please reply if anyone has such a skirt for sale. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:58:00 GMT I see mostly posts about womens perspective on hobble skirts. I love to see women in hobble skirts :) . Also I love to wear them myself, being a man this raises some issues. I have worn tight and hobble skirts in public many times, and I find the 'confrontation' with society more uncomfortable than the restriction (which I am very fond of). Are there any men out there with views on this. Also are there any women who like to see a man in a hobble skirt. My experience is about 50/50 on the few occasions it has come up. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:30:00 GMT http://www.carstuckgirls.com/gallery_vw_bug_beatle_stuck.htm http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:44:00 GMT I am looking for a tailor to make fitted nonstretch mermaid skirt suits. It may not be hobble skirt, but I will post photos of my white skintight rubber mermaid gown soon. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:48:00 GMT Anyone have ideas for new/better features for this site? (And yes, I've already heard the video requests :) - unfortunately we can't fulfill that one for the moment) http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:41:00 GMT I love the clips on the video page, but isn't it time someone put some more up. I am surprised we have no clips of the Hobbleskirt.com range of designs in action, either modelled by Stacey or someone else if she's too shy. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:47:00 GMT I just wondered if anyone had any comments or even constructive criticism :D Lotte http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:57:00 GMT ı need your advice ı am planning to buy Hobble TubeTM Skirt on this site.but ı wonder is there anybody has bought it and tried?If there are somebody who tried it before how you feel and how it's quality ı want to learn detailed information thnks http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:13:00 GMT hello everybody ı need your helps!can anybody imagine which outfit best with hobble skirt?can you help me to create my own outfit with hobbleskirt.I need your advice thank you too much http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:40:00 GMT which one is best for hobble skirts?I will but a hobble skirt soon but also ı wonder what kind of boot is it good for it?ı want to but high heel crocth boot but ı dont know it will be good for my hobble skirt?ı will buy denim skirt or satin skirt.please give your opinions thank you everything in advance http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:50:00 GMT I would like to hear any comments from anyone who has worn a skirt that is too tight to walk in and also to sit down properly.I am thinking about getting a skirt made for me in this fashion and I would like to know what is the best material. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sun, 09 Jan 2005 08:57:00 GMT Now I am keenly aware that some ladies might be made nervous if some strange man approaches them in the street and starts an odd conversation about their mode of dress, especially if they were not particularly into wearing a hobble skirt per se, but perhaps it was just the first thing that came to hand that morning... ...that said, it is clear from this board that there are many fans, of both sexes, who would gain considerable pleasure from such a conversation. So, ladies, what would be an acceptable "line" to open a conversation about the line of your skirt?! (Of course Sarah, this question applies equally to those wearing Hermes scarves...) Looking forward to reading your contributions James http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sat, 08 Jan 2005 07:39:00 GMT Does anyone has experience with hobble nightwear and where to buy it? http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Fri, 07 Jan 2005 04:47:00 GMT I recently discovered that you can buy lockable skirts. These have small padlocks at the waist band or at the hemline, or both. A lockable hobble skirt would serve to increase the slight feeling of bondage to the wearer. I imagine that a skirt with a lock at the hem would be very tight, and have a zip, so that if allowed the lock could be opened to ease permit movement. Those who wear hobble skirts do so for the beautiful line they give the body, and the feeling of restriction to the user. Imagine the horror (and pleasure!) of being locked into such a wonderful garment!! http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:07:00 GMT What's the worst situation any of you have ever encountered when wearing a hobble skirt? Did it put you off wearing them? http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:19:00 GMT Since someone inquired, there isn't a hobble skirt Yahoo group per se (there is one that is rather quite and afflicted by spam). So, we created one: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HobbleSkirts/ http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:39:00 GMT I would love to meet another "Hobble Skirt" Fan. The thought of spending an afternoon or evening together in hobble dresses or skirts and heels really intrigues me. Perhaps a HobbleSkirt.com reunion may be an idea for the future. Oh well I can but dream Hey ~ Have Fun Miss Sandra http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:30:00 GMT If you go to Spain check out the girls who wear Flamenco dresses, after all they are really hobble dresses if worn tight enough. They look lovely, eccentuating the curve of the bottom and flaring out in a mermaid style at the bottom. They look especially good in a shiny material. It would be great to see a collection of flamenco style dresses. well done Spain for this wonderful fashion!! http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:54:00 GMT hi,actually ı am a crossdresser from cyprus.And ı am searching some comments of whom are wearing hobble skirt.I want to buy a hobble skirt but still ı could not decide which fabric is best for a good sensation.I am planing to buy denim,satin or cotton.These are available in my country.But ı dont know which fabric tighter and better.Can you give your advice to me,ı will be so glad. Thank you for everyhing http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Wed, 01 Dec 2004 11:41:00 GMT Do any of you chat on LISA. Would love to know if you do Hey ~ Have Fun Miss Sandra http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sun, 21 Nov 2004 18:33:00 GMT I have always enjoyed the sight of a woman in a long, tight skirt but - I suspect like many male readers of this page - have often wondered what moves a woman to choose to wear one. I can appreciate the desire to look glamourous for an evening out; and then there is the bondage / fetish scene of course. But what about women in ordinary, every day situations? Take this incident which happened earlier this week: calling into the local Post Office I encountered a young mother, wheeling a small child in a pushchair, on her way out. A slim girl, shabbily dressed in an old baggy cardigan and long, faded denim skirt, I shouldn't have given her a second look but for that long, almost perfectly straight skirt. Assuming it to be split right up the back, I nevertheless glanced backwards over my shoulder as she passed - just to confirm my suspicions. Only I was wrong, and it wasn't. In fact, remarkably, no split at all. Intrigued, and having a keen eye for such detail, I paused inside the doorway to watch her move off. Setting out along the pavement with the pushchair she seemed to be in no particular hurry, making leisurely progress in fact. Yet upon closer inspection I noticed she was actually walking quite briskly, reaching the limits of her skirt hem with every step, which gave her a precisely measured gait of no more than 8 or 9 inches. I watched as she moved away: busily pre-occupied with cooing at the baby in the pushchair, she seemed oblivious to the effect of the skirt which was very clearly hobbling her and obliging her to walk with unnaturally short steps. She showed no sign of irritation; the long, hobbling, denim skirt didn't seem to be troubling her at all. But then the skirt looked old, and well worn and so presumably she was quite used to wearing it. Still, it intrigues me: when she pulled it on that morning was it a conscious decision to satisfy some personal desire to feel confined and resticted? Or was it simply the first thing to tumble out of the wardrobe and the fact that it would seriously hamper her movement all day was an irrelevant consequence. I certainly don't believe in this case she was making any kind of fashion statement; she was altogether much to casually dressed for that. Perhaps one of our female correspondents can enlighten us. Is going through every day life in a constricting skirt a very private pleasure? Or does the inevitable impracticality make it more of a pain? http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:55:00 GMT http://www.murrayandvern.com/shop/pics/MV78_1.jpg http://www.dracinabox.com/pvchobblebackrosetop.jpg http://www.eurodreamer.com/820p_hobbleskirt.jpg http://www.sweetsensations-int.co.uk/acatalog/812PL.jpg http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sun, 14 Nov 2004 05:40:00 GMT http://www.honour.co.uk/catalog/images/products/big_pix/R1161.jpg http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sun, 14 Nov 2004 05:20:00 GMT http://www.deadlycurves.com/main.html http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sun, 07 Nov 2004 07:48:00 GMT I think we need to be sure what constitutes a hobble skirt. A woman can wear a skirt tight all the way to her knees ,yet still be able to walk effectively enough, especially when her posture is enhanced by high heels. She is only truly hobbled when she chooses to place aestheticism before practicality, and wears a skirt which deliberately restricts her below the knee. A "hobble" is originally a device used to link the lower parts of the legs of a horse to prevent it straying when there is nothing to tether it to, on open ground. Originally the term "hobble" as applied to a skirt referred to this, not ,as many believe, to the verb "to hobble", which is a method of locomotion unfortunately demonstrated by the injured, eldely or crippled .Not sexy at all! An early satirical depiction of the original 1910 style showed a woman in a Hobble skirt standing next to a hobbled horse with the comment "POOR HORSE- POOR WOMAN!". Apart from Jacques Fath's notorious 1947 collection of longer-line pencil skirts which almost immobilized the top catwalk models of the day,and were contemptuously branded "cripplingly tight hobbles" by the fashion press, the term "hobble skirt" was virtually completely defunct up until the 1980's, when a long-since defunct "alternative" shop in Brighton,UK ,called "The Kooky Shop", which made and marketed its own range of original lycra ,leather and PVC designs, also stocked by many other significant UK "punk" orientated shops in Carnaby Street, Kensington Market etc., decided to re-introduce the term "hobble " to describe their original take on what the punk girls had been simply calling "bondage" skirts. The "Kooky" mail order catalogue uses the word "hobble" throughout. Soon everyone was featuring "hobble skirts" again. Until then, the idea that a woman would buy a skirt specifically designated a "hobble skirt" was generally considered unacceptable. Even in 1910, the fashions were not actually called "hobble" by their designers. One was supposed to pretend not to notice the profound inconvenience when wearing them, and gentleman companions, who were probably encountering their own walking difficulties for entirely different reasons, were supposed to ignore the feast of tightly bound and struggling eroticism all around them .Similarly with the popular tight knee-length pencil skirts of the late fifties and early sixties. They were intended to be graceful,elegant, sophisticated.A woman would die of embarrassment if someone broke the spell,laughed and pointed out that she could not walk properly because her skirt was too narrow.For a woman to demonstrate her sexual liberation and personal confidence by choosing to publically indulge her dark side with an overtly restricting garment, deliberately sold to her in a High Street shop as a "Hobble" could not have happened till the '80's when someone at "Kooky" with a knowledge of fashion history saw the parallel between how the punks and early Goths were dressing and the fashions of 1910, and brought the term "hobble skirt" back into popular parlance. To sum up, I think we should save the term "hobble skirt" for a long skirt which in some way deliberately restricts its wearer below the knee. The next big discussion point is, do women actually want to wear deliberately restricting skirts, or are those who do (and even around town in the daytime there are many, and not always Goths) simply pleasing a partner? Is the restricted stride an undesired by-product of a slim fashionable silhouette or is it a source of pleasure to the wearer ? Genuine female points of view will be of most relevance here.I think we already know that cross-dressers like the feeling! http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:57:00 GMT Not bad. This is quite less cumbersome than having a username/password thing. So, let's get the ball rolling... who wears their hobble skirts when exercising? :) http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:45:00 GMT This will be our new message board, replacing ezBoard's implementation. We wanted it to be simpler and easier to use. Things should be self-explanatory, but if you have any issues, please email us. http://www.hobbleskirt.com/ForumView.aspx Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:00:00 GMT