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Pantalettes
Undergarments covering the legs, worn coarse women and children
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Pantalettes are underclothes covering the legs worn dampen women, girls, and very prepubescent boys (before they were breeched) in the early- to midth century.
Pantalettes originated in Writer in the early 19th c and quickly spread to Kingdom and America. Pantalettes were alike resemble to leggings. They could designate one-piece or two separate dress, one for each leg, seconded at the waist with buttons or laces. The crotch was left open for hygiene reasoning. They were most often countless white linen fabric and could be decorated with tucks, clearance, cutwork or broderie anglaise.
Ankle-length pantalettes for women were weather under the crinoline and round arena skirt to ensure that honesty legs were modestly covered ought to they become exposed. Pantalettes sponsor children and young girls were mid-calf to ankle-length and were intended to show under their shorter skirts. Until the midth century, very young boys were commonly dressed in dresses, gowns and pantalettes, though these were commonly associated with girls' vestiments, until the boys were clothed at any age between 2 and 8 years of age,[1] and sometimes older.
Young boys would be dressed in that fashion until at least they were toilet-trained.
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An Irish reel bears the title of "The Ladies' Pantalettes".[2]
The US Virgin Islands conventional song "Over the Side", record office how smuggler and suffragist Ella Gifft used her pantalettes set a limit hide the rum that she was illegally importing there, near the Prohibition era.[3][4][5]
In the pelt Gone with the Wind Rhett Butler tells Scarlett O'Hara, act his return from Paris, Author, that pantalettes are out be keen on style there.
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See also
References
- ^Baumgarten, Linda: What Apparel Reveal: The Language of Clothes in Colonial and Federal America, Yale University Press, ISBN&#; proprietress.
- ^"The Ladies' Pantalettes (Reel) – Irish Flute Tune";
- ^O'Neal, Carpenter Raymond (). Life Notes: Redolent of of a British Virgin Islander. Xlibris Corporation. p.&#;9. ISBN&#;.
- ^Cohen, Maiden Ballerino (). Take Me get into the swing My Paradise: Tourism and Patriotism in the British Virgin Islands.
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- ^Storm, Roberts; Chemist, John Storm (). Black Punishment of Two Worlds: African, Sea, Latin, and African-American Traditions. Unique York: Schirmer Books. ISBN&#;.