underpetticoat

Folded neatly was a meager assortment of clothes: a back-laced corset, a calico petticoat, a cotton slip, a patched underpetticoat, two pairs of yarn stockings, and two threadbare skirts and bodices, one of a dark blue woolen cloth, the other of yellow-and-green striped cotton.

The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004

Folded neatly was a meager assortment of clothes: a back-laced corset, a calico petticoat, a cotton slip, a patched underpetticoat, two pairs of yarn stockings, and two threadbare skirts and bodices, one of a dark blue woolen cloth, the other of yellow-and-green striped cotton.

The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004

Folded neatly was a meager assortment of clothes: a back-laced corset, a calico petticoat, a cotton slip, a patched underpetticoat, two pairs of yarn stockings, and two threadbare skirts and bodices, one of a dark blue woolen cloth, the other of yellow-and-green striped cotton.

The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004

Folded neatly was a meager assortment of clothes: a back-laced corset, a calico petticoat, a cotton slip, a patched underpetticoat, two pairs of yarn stockings, and two threadbare skirts and bodices, one of a dark blue woolen cloth, the other of yellow-and-green striped cotton.

The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004

Folded neatly was a meager assortment of clothes: a back-laced corset, a calico petticoat, a cotton slip, a patched underpetticoat, two pairs of yarn stockings, and two threadbare skirts and bodices, one of a dark blue woolen cloth, the other of yellow-and-green striped cotton.

The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004

Thus properly founded, Jerusha now climbed into a woolen underpetticoat, a starched linen petticoat and finally a cambric petticoat, all lashed securely at the waist.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959