Hobble Collection

Female Type / Hobble Skirt
Elegant lady restricted by her fashionable hobble skirt & further impeded by a Merry Widow hat, high all round collar & an ermine fur muff

Social / Cup Day at Ascot
Society ladies in Ascot fashions: hobble skirts & panniers, tunic dresses, a loose fitting kimono style dress with oriental embroidery. N.B unfashionably large hats!

Race Going Couple
A bright orange tunic dress with a narrow hobble skirt, sleeves with volans, a V neck bodice & pannier or polonaise over-skirt & a soft brimless hat with a plume

Garden Party Frock 1913
Garden party dress by Redfern: tubular style tunic dress with batea (boat) neck, hobble skirt & ornamented with lace & tassels. Hat: flat crown, wide brim, large black bow

Chic Vs False Chic 1914
True chic - elegant young woman wears the latest fashion to good advantage: hobble skirt & long belted fur trimmed jacket, the skirts of which create a tunic & a fur muff. Date: 1914

AUX TROIS QUARTIERS 1909
Ladies in fashionable hobble skirts, one wears a coatee or spencer with Directoire collar & lapels & a blouse with a ruff. She also wears a large hat not unlike a Lunardi. Date: 1909

STRIPED & SPOTTED C. 1911 STRIPED & SPOTTED C. 1911
A high waisted narrow line dress in spots & stripes with a hobble skirt with a box pleated hem to aid mobility, a wrap over corsage, sash & long sleeves with ruffled cuffs Date: circa 1911

AT THE RACES 1912
A bright orange tunic dress with a narrow hobble skirt, sleeves with volans, a V neck bodice & pannier or polonaise over-skirt & a soft brimless hat with a plume. Date: 1912

Design by Paquin - black hobble skirt, fur-trimmed jacket
Design by Paquin: black hobble skirt, fur-trimmed jacket in a bright floral print cut-away at the front & creating a tunic effect, cocked brim hat with aigrette & buckle shoes. Date: 1912

FEMALE TYPE / HOBBLE SKIRT
A fashionable woman out walking with her little dog. Date: 1911

Eton V. Harrow 1914
Social elite gather for the annual Eton and Harrow cricket match at Lords. Date: 1914

Daddies, comedy by John L Hobble, Cromer
Daddies, a comedy by John L Hobble, at the Town Hall Theatre, Cromer, previously at the Haymarket Theatre, London. 1921

Advert for International Fur Store, theatre coat 1913
Fur-trimmed white evening coat or wrap with white fur stole, long gloves and fan. 1913

Skirts too Short 1912
Mistress to maid : Julie, you shouldn t wear such tight skirts, you are showing far too much leg... Date: 1912

Hobble skirt fashion victim
A fashionable ladys vision and gait is impaired by her enormous hat and tight hobble skirt. A chance encounter with a gentlemen friend, also out walking his dog, saves the day. Date: 1911

Ascot Fashions 1913
Elegant Ladies wearing black and white dresses at Ascot Races. Date: 1913

Intricate laced jabot for May 1913
Examples of intricate jabot for womens clothing, using broad lace frills, castellated edge, pleated frill combined with hem stitch. Date: 1913

Beautiful evening dresses 1913
Latest evening wear for women from Paris. 1913

Aftertoon clothing 1913
Clothing for the autumn season, two women wearing pretty frocks for the afternoon. Model to the left, soft fawn-coloured velvet cotele with sash of crepe de chine tied loosely st the side

Fur wraps for the winter season 1913
Women models wearing the lastest fashionable fur wraps. 1913

Fashion for fur trimming 1913
Women models wearing the lastest fashionable winter jackets with fur trim. 1913

Beautiful gowns for the afternoon 1913
Clothing for the winter season, left: Violet charmeuse forms the draped skirt and the quaint little coatee of this pretty frock

The Charm of velvet and fur 1913
Clothing for the autumn season, left: gown of blue velvet bordered with fur with a vest of soft muslin, the corsage finished with Oriental embroidery and small buttons

Forecast of fashion for spring 1914
Fashion based on M. Gavaults comedy, Le Mannequin, in Paris, showing actresses Mlle. Ducouret and Mlle. Magde Lanzy are shown in the posed photographs wearing dresses from the play

Afternoon dresses 1912
Seletion of afternoon dresses with cocked hats and feathers. Date: 1912

Tailor-made suits for the races 1912
Tailor-made fashionable clothing, single breasted wrap-over jacket with single or double buttons and hobble skirts. Date: 1912

Four women wearing autumn jackets 1910
Fashionable women wearing autumn jackets with accessories. 1910

Four women wearing outdoor clothing 1910
Four women wearing large plumed hats. Date: 1910

This Vacant Lot for Sale - Comic Postcard - Three rather eager young men (all highly optimistic - possibly a little out of their league)

Newest tailor-mades 1914
Fashionable womens tailored clothing in 1914. 1914

Womens clothing in 1910
Photographs of women, wearing the latest fashion in 1910 1910

The Hobble and Poddle Race Date: 1922

Advert for Peter Robinsons autumn tailor-mades 1913
Two stlyes of autumn coats tailor-made in Peter Robinson for 1913. 1913

Flower arranging 1914
A group of young women arranging flowers on a maypole tree. 1914

Fashionable Woman 1911
Lady wearing a very large floral hat, with her contents shattered on the floor. 1911

Harem trousers replace the hobble skirt
From fetters to freedom: the hygienic harem replaces the horrible hobble skirt. Four radical designs from New York and Paris

The harem skirt, the scare m skirt, the harum-scarum skirt
A satirical look at womens fashion in 1911. Date: January 1911

Hobble, hobble, toil and wobble
The hobble waltz-the dance of the season. The hazards of dancing in a fashionable hobble skirt, shown here gathered in at the knee

Hobble Skirt Cars in New York
Hobble Skirt street cars on Broadway in New York City, America

Social / Eton-Harrow 1914
Social elite gather for the annual Eton & Harrow cricket match at Lords. Ladies wear hobble skirts, tango skirts & tunics. Hats with feathers abound

Hon. Mrs John Ward
A Dry-Point Portrait by French artist Adrien Etienne of Hon. Mrs John Ward, daughter of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, former American Ambassador in London

History of Fashion 1880
Coat bodice, basques well over the hips, double-breasted, cut-away at the front & trimmed with cord; straight skirt with vertical stripes, train & diagonal drapery

Harem Pants / Postcard
A modern young lady wearing the daring new harem pants under her skirt is able to run for a bus - fortunately she didn t chose the fashionable hobble skirt instead

Dryden / Salamander / 107
Poster advertisement for the Salamander shoe company

1911 Silhouette / Gose
Silhouette of 1911: high waisted tunic dress with narrow (hobble) skirt & a V necked corsage in an exotic floral fabric. She carries an American sac handbag

Garden Party Frocks 1911
Pelisse style coat with Directoire collar, large hats adorned with osprey & ostrich, high waisted gowns with narrow (hobble) skirts, over-skirt with a central split

Costume 1912 / Houghton
Men: morning coat, striped grey trousers, top hat, sac suit with tapering trousers with turn-ups & spats. Woman: white tailor-made with hobble skirt & button detailing

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