In keeping with our underwear theme this month, I bring you these frothy, frilly petticoats from the early 1960s.
The very bouffant skirts that were fashionable at this time needed something to hold them out, and what could have worked better than petticoats made of one of the new postwar synthetics? They would have been light to wear and easy to launder—though alas, probably also prone to generating static.
(This wasn't the first instance of cutting edge technology being put to the service of fashion. The hooped skirts of the 1850s and 60s, for example, were only made possible by new industrial processes for mass-producing wire.)
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