PA712 - 1863 Hoop Skirt With Hoope Flounce Pattern. This pattern is multi-sized Small through Extra-Extra Large. The Hoop Skirt requires 3-1/4 Yds. and the Hoop Flounce requires 2 Yds. of 45 inch wide fabric for all sizes. Past Patterns' Hoop Skirt with Hoop Flounce is a pattern which Saundra Altman pulled from an original. A hoop skirt is necessary to create the full Dickensian bustled silhouette popular from the mid-1850s through the mid-1860s. The Historical Notes included with the pattern trace the origin of hoop skirts and references to their acceptance in newspapers, diaries and ladies' magazines of the era. The circumference for the everyday hoop in the smallest size is 105 inches, for the largest size it is 120 inches. The Hoop Flounce buttons on to create an even fuller evening silhouette of 130 inches for the smallest size and 145 inches for the largest size.