Hobble skirt
A hobble skirt is a skirt with a narrow enough hem to significantly impede the wearer's stride, thus earning its name. Though restrictive skirts first appeared in Western fashion in the 1880s, the term is typically used in reference to a short-lived trend of narrow ankle-length skirts in the early 1910s, made popular by designer Paul Poiret. Poiret was inspired by Katherine Wright, sister of the Wright Brothers, who used a piece of rope to tie her skirts around her legs when flying with her brother Wilbur, in order to keep them from flapping while in flight. The original trend faded quickly due to the advent of cars - hobble skirts made it difficult to get into one, as well as the general impracticality.
Today, hobble skirts are a mainstay in bondage-oriented fetish fashion, often made out of leather, PVC, or latex.
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