On Oct. 21, 1910, the live musical comedy “The White Hen” opened at Petaluma’s Hill Opera House, setting off a new fashion craze in town. The fashion foray was led by the traveling theater company’s ...
Aug. 24, 1912: Los Angeles Police Lt. John L. Butler of the traffic squad declares war on “hobble skirts,” with hemlines so snug that they allow women to take steps of only 8 mincing inches as they ...
At 1 p.m on Sept 1, 1919, York City men and women in their best pinstripe suits and hobble skirts posed for a photo at Continental Square in the heart of York City. On Sunday, exactly 100 years later, ...