COMPLIMENTS OF "VOLUMINOUS"
THE PETTICOAT CRAZE
PAGE 93
LEFT: Unusual handkerchief trim gives a look of fine French lingerie. The ribbon-trimmed ruffle is made of eighteen cotton handkerchiefs stitched on the show their embroidered-net hems. Petticoat is Bates Disciplined cotton.
RIGHT: Look your ladylike loveliest in a wonderfully decorative, bouffant petticoat. The stiff skirt juts out sharply from a tiny waist, ends in a ripling, eyelet-edged flounce made of permanently pleated Everfast cotton.
CENTER: Wear-with-everything petticoat has a slender torso, flounces of embroidered eyelet cotton to give it a modified flare. Flounces are beaded with blue satin ribbon. Embroidered fabric by Samuel Ehrman Co.
FAR RIGHT: Poised little petticoat with a completely feminine air. Hip yoke and hem are of a pink-and-white-checked cotton; the skirt is of a stiff white Formite interfacing. Simplicity Printed Pattern 3739.
Instructions for making the petticoats on page 91 through 95 are in GHN591. To order, send 25¢ to GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BULLETIN SERVICE, 57th St. at 8th Ave., New York 19.
Look for these petticoats at the stores listed below:
B. Altman & Co............................New York
Marshall Field & Co.......................Chicago
The Halle Bros. Co......................Cleveland
Frederick & Nelson.........................Seattle