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  • In the heat or cold, you can wear either cool petti pants or warm tights/legings with socks and boots (sandals for the summer). with a slightly shorter half slip worn beneath also, or a pettiblouse (just a blouse-slip sewn as one garment) everything's taken care of.

    18th and 19th Century Country Women 2009

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    Needles and haystacks and such. 2009

  • Vintage slips and petti pants are EVERYWHERE on ebay.

    Your (New) Slip Is Showing - A Dress A Day 2009

  • August 28, 2008 at 3:05 pm ai can haz refryed mousie tacos? teh petti 5s wuz nawt tew fillin tewdai!

    The “clean” aesthetic of your new kitchen design - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Anil Biswas will think only on petti-demands and ask the people not to cross the laxman rekha prepared by them.

    A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007

  • Carts were in requisition to bring home the wet clothes -- Louisa told C. that she couldn't wear hoops into the water and should be so cold she should wear eight coats (they drop the petti -) and she couldn't bring them all home.

    Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson

  • Then, don't wear heavy petti-coats that will retard the free movements of your legs and make your hips ache with their tiresome weight.

    The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture Helen Follett Stevans

  • Wedekind, Schnitzler, Schoenberg, Korngold and Moussorgsky, and he has discharged a few rounds of shrapnel at the Gallo-Asiatic petti-coat philosopher, Henri Bergson, but here he has stopped, as he has stopped at Matisse, Picasso, Epstein and Augustus John in painting.

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

  • Quiet as these women are on ordinary occasions, when two or three of them are gathered together in their holiday petti-coats and shawls, they are as wild and capricious as the women who live in towns.

    The Aran Islands 1890

  • A severe-looking person, who wears a Spanish cloak and a sad cheek, fluted by the passions of the melodrama, whom I understand to be the professional ruffian of the neighboring theater, alluded, with a certain lifting of the brow, drawing down of the corners of the mouth and somewhat rasping _voce di petti_, to Falstaff's nine men in buckram.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) Various 1887

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