Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Hobble skirt" in English language version.
...[Dior] suits have hobble skirts...
Cardin's...skirts...swell out over the hips and then are caught in around the knees.
Castillo of Lanvin has a whole new way with skirts. Fullness from the waist is gently pulled in about the knees as if by a drawstring to create his...teardrop silhouette.
...Yves Saint Laurent['s]...newly cut skirt...seemed to constrict the knees and then balloon above them. The skirt obviously was based on the hobble skirts of yore....The majority of the daily newspaper reporters immediately labeled it 'hobble'...
Take the anti‐establishment 60's...: the untamed manes of the flower children, the faded jeans of the affluence‐rejecting hippies, the discarded bras of the women's liberation movement, the knee‐freeing skirts..., and the street‐imitating gear of the radical chic...share...an antifashion attitude that became...powerful and pervasive...
Snug dresses are...uncomfortable, [Courrèges] points out...
In the 1970's...[s]portswear emerged as the dominant theme, implying a relaxed fit and considerable versatility, since most clothes were made in interchangeable parts....For a number of years, it offered a serviceable way of dressing, geared to active women's lives, adjusting to vagaries of climate, adapting easily to travel requirements. As the sportswear onslaught continued, clothes lost their linings and interfacings, becoming softer, looser, less structured. Almost everything became as comfortable to wear as a sweater.
What women have found appealing is the freedom of the full shapes, which offer no restraint on wide strides and easy movements.
...[A] straight skirt crop[s] up here and there. Anyone who remembers how it feels to wear one will not welcome its...return.
[T]he skimpiness of the styles made the skirt slits obligatory — otherwise, the wearer would not be able to move.
Many of the skirts are so narrow that slits are indeed necessary to permit the wearer to take a healthy stride.
Karl Lagerfeld ... had ... hobble skirts that are impossible to walk in...
...[H]ow explain the resurgence of short, tight skirts, body-cupping knitted dresses, spindly heels and other constricting clothes that can only be described as sexist? Favored by a small fashion-oriented cult in Paris, the styles by such designers as Azzedine Alaia, Thierry Mugler and Claude Montana ... run counter to the flowing, unrestricted ... look, and many women find them offensive.
[Azzedine Alaïa, Claude Montana, Thierry Mugler, Jean-Paul Gaultier, i]n these designers' collections, waistlines are usually taut, heels are high ... and, while the designers generally deny it, many of the clothes are restrictive.
