Petticoat

She was wearing a white petticoat.

Bring me my petticoat.

But remember: The 1907 crowd in their bowler hats and petticoat dresses had no computers, no air conditioners, no passenger airplanes, no microwave ovens, no television sets, no polio vaccine. And how those poor wretches scraped a life together without credit cards and electric guitars, we'll never know.

“Yes, and her petticoat; I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud, I am absolutely certain; and the gown which had been let down to hide it not doing its office.” “Your picture may be very exact, Louisa,” said Bingley; “but this was all lost upon me. I thought Miss Elizabeth Bennet looked remarkably well when she came into the room this morning. Her dirty petticoat quite escaped my notice.”

petticoat influence

a petticoat affair

Phœb[us]. Know you the Reaſon of this preſent Summons? […] / Merc[ury]. And Venus may know more than both of us, / For 'tis ſome Petticoat Affair I gueſs.