18th Century Women’s Panniers and Hoops
Last updated: Feb 20, 2024
The London Tradesman has quite a lot to say about hooped petticoats, their history, and their manufacture, but for our purposes, the most useful bit is this:
The Materials are ſtriped Holland, Silk, or Check, according to the Quality of the Fair, to be incloſed, and ſupported with Rows of Whale-Bone, or Rattan.
- Met 1973.65.2, British, c. 1750
- KCI AC7682 93-1-4, “pannier of cotton chintz with oval rattan hoops and padding,” c. 1775
- V&A T.120-1969, 1778
- Manchester 1953.431
- Royal Ontario Museum
- Met 26.56.52, Italy
- National Trust 1350052 (Snowshill Wade Costume Collection), c. 1750-1760; see also An unnatural Protuberance … Paniers, hoops and bustles
- LACMA M.2007.211.981, “linen plain weave and cane,” England, c. 1750-1780
- Göteborg Stadsmuseum 4227, 18th century pocket hoops (linen and rattan?)
- Pocket hoop/panniers at Nordiska Museet: NM.0222417A-B (c. 1750-1790), NM.0173628A-B (c. 1750-1790), NM.0024428
- Colonial Williamsburg 1990-11, New York, c. 1755-1785 (see also Costume Close-Up)
- GNM T901, c. 1760
- GNM T3070, c. 1760
- Centraal Museum 5311, hoop lined with striped linen, c. 1770
- Nordiska Museet NM.0001008, showing the transition between pocket hoops and a false rump all in one undergarment, c. 1770-1810
- Colonial Williamsburg 1968-646,4, linen and cane hoops, England, c. 1785
- Met C.I.53.51.16, American
- Met 2008.297a, b, France, late 18th century