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The interior of its hoopskirt canopy had acted as the sisters’ sanctum sanctorum.—David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022 The belles in their hoopskirts took the arms of boys from Baylor Military Academy, who wore Confederate uniforms.—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 2022 Swinton moves through a photo studio in the gown’s outsize hoopskirt as Alberto Iglesias’s moody score plays in the background.—Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2020
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