Quilted Petticoats Over Panniers?
I can't figure this out....
My assumption, based on a quote from Iris Brooke's book 'Dress and Undress' was that the quilted petticoat replaced hoops.
' Mrs Rook...is just come from France and is come without a hoop, and tells me that except in their high dress nobody wears one. Their sacs are made proportionally narrow and short, opened before with a petticoat and trimmed and with a stiff quilted petticoat under.' (p.83)
Meaning you either wore a quilted petticoat or you wore a hoop.
But my little world seems to be tumbling down and within the same book it seems.
One of my favourite drawings from her book is on p.82:
And until now I hadn't actually noticed that she seems to be wearing a quilted petticoat under her apparent apron. I don't know if you can see it from this scanned in image but there's definite etches of the repeated circular design associated with quilted petticoats. You can see it just as she lifts up her apron.
But Iris doesn't often mention where she's sourced her information from and I don't just want to decide from a mere drawing that therefore they were worn over panniers.
So I did some hunting online but didn't come up with much.
Except I did find this image in the Manchester Art Gallery:
'Pity' I said.
And that is that; at this precise moment.
And that is that; at this precise moment.
If anyone out there has any other images or infomation, oh I'd be oh-so-grateful if you got in touch.
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