{"id":321,"date":"2014-03-07T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyapolis.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2024-01-10T13:43:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T19:43:37","slug":"hoop-skirts-and-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/2014\/03\/07\/hoop-skirts-and-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoop Skirts and Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Published March 7, 2014 by Kirsten Delegard<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nineteenth century women’s fashions were rather impractical for life in Minnesota. In 1914, a woman who had arrived as a young girl in Minneapolis in 1856–two years before Minnesota became a state–remembers the challenges of winter when you had to wear a hoop skirt, like the two women pictured above. She told the Book Committee of the Daughters of the American Revolution that:<\/p>\n

“No one who was used to an eastern climate had any idea how to dress out here when they first came. I wore hoops and a low necked waist just as other little girls did. I can remember the discussion that took place before a little merino sack was made for me. . . I must have looked like a little picked chicken with goose flesh all over me. Once before this costume was added to, by the little sack, my mother sent me for a jug of vinegar down to Helen Street and Washington Avenue South. I had on the same little hoops and only one thickness of cotton underclothing under them. It must have been twenty degrees below zero. I thought I would perish before I got there, but childlike, never peeped. When I finally reached home, they had an awful time thawing me out. The vinegar was frozen solid in the jug.”<\/p>\n

Interview with Mrs. Charles Godley (nee Scrimgeour) for Old Rail Fence Corners, the ABCs of Minnesota History<\/i>, which was put together by the historians of the Daughters of the American Revolution.\u00a0 The image of two women was taken in 1860 and is from the Minnesota Historical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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