Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — Style in Petticoats. [ARTICLE]

Style in Petticoats.

Very fanciful petticoats have been brought out for summer wear. These are of light-colored foulards with small dots, and trimmed with lace. One'of them is of pink foulard with red dots. On the lower part is a red foulard plaited flounce, bordered with Valenciennes lace; above this flounce, and partly covering it, is a lambrequin drapery of spotted foulard, also trimmed with lace. Skirts and underskirts are now made so as to form two very narrow points in the back, reaching to the middle of the skirt. The breadth of goods to placed where these points terminate, and either gathered or plaited. By this means all the fullness remains in, the back, and the front and over the hips are perfectly plain. A petticoat for wear under an evening dress may be of Nainsook and Breton lace. The front to cut in points, and the back to made over a piece of stiff muslin, also composed of two points and trimmed with flounces. The skirt to shirred in the back in three places, and in front is a deep flounce trimmed with five rows of Valenciennes lace.—New York Timet.