Mollie Anderson, 12, holds hands with Izzy Dupre,12, while jumping into the pool at Stanton Hall.

Mollie Anderson, 12, and Izzy Dupre,12, swim around hoop skirts as the skirts are cleaned in the pool at Stanton Hall Sunday in Natchez at the Pilgrimage Garden Club’s first hoop skirt pool party.

Bottom left, Jane Carby, 6, and Walker Carby, 4, swim during the party.

Jane swims in her mother’s hoop skirt.

Anderson and Dupre jump into the pool at Stanton Hall.