Paradise Silk Pure Silk Knitted Underskirt Petticoat 19 inches Half Slip

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The trimming flounce is decorated with two silk ruchings, the whole arrangement increasing the flaring effect and making quite an elaborate foot-trimming.’ ( The Delineator, 1896)

How to wear saree perfectly". Glowpink. 26 March 2015. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018 . Retrieved 6 June 2017. Planché, James Robinson (1879). A Cyclopaedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent: A general history of costume in Europe. Vol.2. London: Chatto and Windus. pp.158–159. I found some sage-blue silk for one petticoat, to match the yellow/blue stripe I bought several weeks ago, but the silk is not the right weave for a quilted petticoat. Those I have seen in various collections look to be made of satin, or something on the fairly soft-n-shiny side, so that is what I will be looking for next, in Hansa yellow. (They were also made of cotton, but I would rather pair silk/silk for this particular ensemble)Apart from the cording, I decorated the petticoat with 30 meters faux silk ruchings. Ruchings were a popular choice in the Edwardian era to decorate and stiffen the wide petticoat hems. Cunningham, Patricia A. (2003). Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920: Politics, Health and Art. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press. ISBN 0873387422.

Petticoats in […] heatherbloom, with the true silky lustre and as good as silk’ ( 1908 ad). ‘The quality of the new taffetas does away with the undesirable rustling of the stiff silk petticoat, and the soft silk wears better than the stiff, yet it is not advisable to buy too soft a taffeta for a petticoat unless one can have it made so cleverly that it will hold out the dress skirt despite its softness. The result may be obtained by liberal use of frills, flounces, ruchings, &c., or by much cording’ ( The Sun, 1903).As usual, I made the petticoat as historically correct as possible so all seams of the petticoat are flat-felled; even the cord gaterhed ruffles are attached with flat-felled seams. Petticoats were revived by Christian Dior in his full-skirted " New Look" of 1947, and tiered, ruffled, stiffened petticoats remained extremely popular during the 1950s and 1960s. [12] These were sold in a few clothing stores as late as 1970.