an ankle-length skirt stiffened with hoops of varying diameters at intervals up the skirt
a petticoat held out with stiff hoops, sometimes dramatically at right angles to the waist
series of graduated-sized hoops attached by ribbons or ties to each other on a metal frame.
The canvas or linen petticoat containing whalebone hoops worn in the 16th century.
Farthingale is a term applied to any of several structures used under Western European women's clothing in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to support the skirts into the desired shape.