crfriend wrote:It sounds like the short one will likely get the most mileage.
I believe so, mainly just for practical purposes alone. It's got three layers and gives my knee length skirts some pop. I didn't photograph myself in the red one, but I'll probably wear it this weekend, so you can expect my usual "skirted weekend pictorial journal" in Moon's Phases.
The long one, while I felt silly standing in the bathroom looking down on the size of it, Jenn seemed to like it. Standing there in the bathroom, it reminded me of my first time in my first skirt almost dreading going out the door. When Jenn saw it, she expressed a gentle smile, and said "hey.. I like it". I literally felt my apprehension melt away.
While dressed in the rainbow tiedie rig, I walked out to the van to get Jenn's mail, it was after dark and the shadow of the neighbors dusk to dawn light gave me a pleasing shadow, as you can well imagine. I also took advantage of the darkness to practice getting in and out of the car. It wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be, however it definitely takes up the entire drivers side section. It's not dangerous or anything, but suffice it to say, I can't see the pedals. When I exited the car, I was pleased to see it re-took it's shape nicely.
crfriend wrote:Experiment with both, especially with very long skirts (although the knee-length one might not work well with long skirts). You'll find out pretty quickly how the petti will "tame" some of long skirts' "bad habits".
The knee length one is perfect for knee length skirts. I've got some mid calf lengths that I haven't tried yet, but I believe it would probably work for those as well. Anything past that and it will probably deflate under the weight of the skirt. The red petti has no ring, just three ruffled layers. The white longer one does have a ring. You were right, it's not rigid at all. It's able to flex and shape itself to a variety of circumstances. I was concerned that the ring might break my stride, however I found that I can perform a full stride without issue as the ring takes on different oval shapes when need be.
It's all around just a fun rig to wear. Not something I'd plan on taking to the movies, or anywhere else where I would expect cramped seating. When I sit in this thing, it extends about 2 feet on both sides and along the front of me.
Just for fun, I'm thinking about purchasing a winged top, and using the petti and one of my hippie skirts, I'm thinking of being a fairy for Halloween!
But anyway, I imagine it would be a head turner regardless of the fairy wings. Even a woman wearing such a garment would turn heads. You are right, nobody really wears these things anymore, men or women alike. Even the more formal modern dresses and skirts seem to be of a more "pencil" variety. It sure is
bold.
crfriend wrote:Where'd you get them?
I found the site simply by searching google for "petticoats", and found
http://www.jjshouse.com/, they seem to specialize in wedding apparel.
The direct links to what I purchased:
Long white petticoat
Knee length red petticoat
Both petti's had a generous elastic waist that seemed to fit my 35" waist line like a glove. No snaps, buttons, or hooks, which I thought was nice. The white one can be long, it has a very wide waist section as you can see, hanging the bottom of my waist on my hip (which I believe is how it's supposed to be worn) resulted in the petti showing under the skirts, so I hiked it up quite a bit, more so than I normally do on skirts, literally right below my breast area. But when wearing a top over it, you can't tell anyway.
As you can tell from the petti-dance... everything stayed in place nicely.

In that one scene I thought it was coming down, but I believe I was wrong.
Going forward, I'd like to look into a ringless calf length that would about
half the flare of the current ringed white one. This would give me a more practical petti for my longer skirts. But the wide ringed one is still a lot of fun, and.... who knows, I may just wear it out Saturday as we're planning just a picnic and a ride, not really going to be sitting anywhere particular....