SWEET, FLUFFY NOSTALGIA
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(below) Stiff, heavy nylon netted pettis were worn under heavier fabrics such as felt or quilting, during The Era (Popularly known as "horsehair')
The push-down must have felt lovely on the legs! Also, the texture accommodated a unique skirt flow(also see fourth entry here)
Probably the Empire State Building observation deck during the Era.
In those days, you could see exciting skirts anywhere!
Sent by Crinolyn
Could be Era-photographed,
but kind of looks staged
From an interesting site: 1950s American Vacations Aquamaids
in Florida - 1952
Cypress Gardens: “Water Ski Capital of the World!"
50s icon Ricky Nelson with admirers
From a brochure handed out at Dollywood Amusement Park in Pigeon Forge, TN (2001)
-Contributed by Elizabeth
Shopping for pettis and the such in The Golden Era - personal attention!
A photo from the Book Aachen, published in 1961. The photo shows three young ladies
at a thermal- water fountain in Aachen-Burtscheid, Germany--Contributed by Virginia
