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Articles by Tessy Staylace Several articles on Petticoats and Skirts.
   
Petti-Fiction Reader-contributed frou-frou fiction - non-suggestive. 
   
Pulp Fiction Area 

Reader-contributed frou-frou fiction. 
Note that this is a "Blue-Petti Area." All such areas, denoted by a blue petticoat, are liable to contain explicit sexual material
   
PettiPond Reflections

A moderated public discussion forum for conversing about petticoats, crinolines and related topics 
 Remember: Pettipond Reflections additions are NOT listed in the Update Area
   
Petticoats in Fiction Great works which allude to our favorite subject
   
First Encounters Grabbing the ring!  Submit your first experience and read about other Poufbunnies' nascent memories. 
   
Petti-Perspectives Personal truths
   
Embarrassing Petti-Moments

We've all had moments when we thought we would just die! These are stories of CDers getting caught furtively trying on their sister's or mother's or friend's  Petticoats, for example, making you a...'Crinimal'!

   
Sweet Remembrances There are Memories we all hold dear. They are neither our first Memories of Petticoats, nor an embarrassing incident, but something very Special. So Special, they manifest themselves in our mind with a Halo around them.
   
Exposed without Recourse Gender Gals (GGs) caught in embarrassing situations!
   
   
USENET Responses by Tessy Tessy's response to a lady in distress on the alt.wedding Newsgroup! 

Easing the Significant Other into Accepting Petticoats

by "Dressup"*

  CRINOLINES (An historical perspective)

By Danielle  of "Silhouette" Magazine

Petticoat-related definitions

MAKING YOUR OWN PETTICOAT

A French song about petticoats!

  Modern Petti-Poetry

  Classical Poems alluding to Petticoats

A very special little excerpted feature on Naomi Judd--nice reading, lovely picture!

Rules for Teachers -- 1915

  EXCERPTS FROM

PRETTY POISON 
The Tuesday Weld Story
by Floyd Conner

EXCERPTS FROM 

WIFE DRESSING 
The Fine Art of Being a Well Dressed Wife
 by Ann Fogarty

EXCERPTS FROM 

WHAT WE WORE
An Offbeat Social History of Women's Clothing, 1950 to 1980
 by Ellen Melinkoff

"ALICE LON MODELS AND TELLS YOU HOW TO MAKE THOSE PETTICOATS" 
Small feature article from 1956 TV Guide, with pictures

"PETTICOAT LOOK"

A nostalgic article from the New York Times Magazine (1954)

Memories of the Fifties

The women who lived through that wonderful era of pettis and crinies look back!

THE ANGEL IN THE BLACK PETTICOAT

A true story by Ed

TIDBITS

Interesting quotes we have come upon

Here is an ARTICLE which VINDICATES the idea that ladies  (and girls) prefer to be treated like...ladies and girls (gender feminists* notwithstanding..)!  Shelley also mentioned that in THIS country, dress-up little girl parties are becoming a popular business!  She points out that it is just INSIDE little girls to want to wear pretty, full dresses (why else do they twirl their skirts the minute they get them on?).

* Those feminists who blame everything that ever happened bad in the world on men --
"equity" feminists merely want equality in the workplace and opportunity.

100 Years of Can Can

An Interesting History from Monsieur Magazine (year unknown)
 (The 100th anniversary of can can)

DAVINA'S INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE

Karl K. sends this interesting newspaper article

http://docsouth.unc.edu/felton/felton.html

A nice bit of first-hand historical evidence!
Text of Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth by Rebecca Felton
The author lived from 1835 to 1930, and is writing presumably about the middle 1840s - before the age of Scarlett O'Hara:

"When I had reached the age of ten the fashionables wore voluminous skirts and many of them. The underskirts were starched as stiff as possible, and I remember hearing a friend of my mother say she had on at that time eight petticoats beside the outside frock made of "balzarine." Something like the voile of modern dress goods. As she came down the street she was like a ship in full sail. Her dress skirt was as wide as the sidewalk. The body to the dress was tight as beeswax and she was laced until her beaux could nearly span her waist with both hands." (page 64)
 

Petticoats and Dreams

Petticoats in a dream pertain to marital or romantic affairs, and their meaning depends on the action and other aspects of the dream which must be correlated, but as a general guide: petticoats which the dreamer considered as pleasing or pretty (rather than strictly utilitarian) are a warning against vanity and conceit; buying petticoats is a caution against extravagance; changing a petticoat predicts that the dreamer will soon be off with the old, on with the new; losing a petticoat is a sign of unexpected rivalry for the affection of someone the dreamer takes for granted; a torn petticoat indicates disenchantment; a mended petticoat (or to mend one) is a warning against foolish pride; it is frequently better in the long run to sit on your pride than to stand on your dignity.

TWO QUOTES, COURTESY MICAEL ZELLER

There was a wedding in the neighbourhood with drinking and dancing well into the night and through to the early hours of the morning.
Now Mary was able to drink as well as she could dance, and as she spun around in a drunken dance the buttons of her skirt caught onto
a nail. The buttons burst open and her skirt fell to the ground, to the great delight of the others in the room who laughed and jeered her. This is the incident that earned her the name of 'Petticoat Loose.'            www.dlscouts.ie/petticoatloose.html

I am so pleased with my little butter-yellow machine that has more grunt and cleaning ability than any vacuum I have ever owned. It picks up the beagle's hair from carpets, beds and car - in fact if the beagle was not quite as round as she is it would pick her up. It certainly is not safe to wave the nozzle around the curtains and I had a nasty petticoat incident whilst my husband was testing the machine and I was bending over.       
www.uk-shop-index.co.uk/lg-appliances.html

 

"I think we're in luck tonight, Gloria. I can feel somebody looking at us."

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