[Ads-l] Fw: Antedating of "Hula Hoop"

[Mark Mandel]

Very nice! But for me the salient point here is that using this nickname
for those earrings would make no sense if the term didn't already exist for
some use.

Mark Mandel

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 12:15 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Here is a 1955 citation for hula-hoops, but it refers to hoop earrings
> and not something that spins around the waist. I am posting this
> because it may help to clarify ambiguous citations that are discovered
> in the future.
>
> Date: August 19, 1955
> Newspaper: Daily Mirror
> Newspaper Location: London, England
> Article: THEY'RE THE HULA-HOOPS!
> Author: Helen Hugh
> Quote Page 15, Column 1
> Database: British Newspaper Archive
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> THEY'RE THE HULA-HOOPS!
> FOR the girl who chooses her earrings big, bold and beautiful—here are
> a pair of grass-skirted HULA-HOOPS.
> In shiny white raffia, they make perfect companions for off the
> shoulder sun-dresses and swimsuits.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 11:48 AM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Slightly earlier:
> >
> > 1957 _Pacific Islands Monthly: PIM_ v 28 n 2; 1 Sep. 32/3, 36/1
> >
> > You don't bowl them, you put them round your middle and by swinging the
> hips in [jump to p 36] a circular motion keep the hoop revolving -- hence
> the name "hula hoop".
> >
> >
> https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-320273850/view?sectionId=nla.obj-364218709&searchTerm=hula+hoop&partId=nla.obj-320302210
> >
> >
> > > hula hoop (OED 1958)
> > >
> > > 1957 _Tampa Tribune_ 3 Dec. 6/8 (Newspapers.com)  The "Hula hoop" is
> all the rage among the
> > > female small fry of Australia.
> > >
> > > Fred Shapiro
> >
> >
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