Item Detail
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30323
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26
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English
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Hoop Mania : Fashion, Identity, and Religious Condemnation in Nineteenth-Century Utah
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Spring 2017
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85
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Illinois Press
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127-144
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The hoopskirt usually conjures up images of Scarlet O'Hara and southern belles. The fashion for hoopskirts (or crinoline) in the mid-nineteenth century was not limited to the South, however, as it spread across the United States, even to remote places like Utah. With the arrival of the Utah Expedition in 1858, the isolation of the Mormons began to crumble. The increasing number of outsiders coming into Utah Territory brought changes in many areas of the pioneers' lives, including fashion. Some of the women who accompanied the army were stylish officers' wives acquainted with the latest styles hoopskirts. Their clothing, along with that of other newcomers to the territory, fueled debates over self-reliance, women's roles and identity, and the encroachment of worldly influences. Mormon leaders decried women's appetite for expensive imported fabrics, dresses, and accessories. Religious and social opposition to this new vogue existed outside of Utah as well.
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