Petticoat

In both historical and modern contexts, petticoat refers to skirt-like undergarments worn for warmth or to give the skirt or dress the desired attractive shape.

[11] In the 18th century in Europe and in America, petticoats were an integral component of a gown, considered a part of the exterior garment and were meant to be seen.

[9] The term petticoat was used to refer to such an outer skirt from the 16th to the 19th century, which were fashioned from either matching or contrasting textiles, in simple fabrics, or were highly decoratively embroidered.

[12] Also in the American colonies, working women wore shortgowns (bedgowns) over petticoats that normally matched in color.

[12] Popular white cotton petticoats as an undergarment in the 1860s, for example, regularly featured a lace and broderie anglaise decorative border.

[11] As the bustle became popular in the 1870s, petticoats developed flounces towards the back in order to cater for this style of under structure.

[18] Coloured petticoats came into fashion by the 1890s,[17] with many being made from silk and featuring decorative frills to the bottom edge.

Sybil Connolly recalled how a red flannel petticoat, worn by a Connemara woman, inspired her first international fashion collection which took place in New York in 1953.

She bought a bolt of the same fabric from the local shop and made it into a quilted evening skirt, which was a huge success at the fashion show.

The juban resembles a shorter kimono, typically without two half-size front panels (the okumi) and with sleeves only marginally sewn up along the wrist-end.

The hadajuban is sometimes worn underneath the juban, and resembles a tube-sleeved kimono-shaped top, without a collar, and an accompanying skirt slip.

No ruler would deliberately dress up in the recognized fetters of a slave; no judge would appear covered with broad arrows.

But when men wish to be safely impressive, as judges, priests or kings, they do wear skirts, the long, trailing robes of female dignity.

Blake Edwards filmed a story of an American submarine filled with nurses from the Battle of the Philippines called Operation Petticoat (1959).