Show Make Mine A Red Flannel Petticoat Said The Queen Fashion is a fickle goddess goddes s whose head has been turned by everything from bunions and bets beta to politics and even the winds of chance A London dress designer for lor example recently attributed the popularity of the tho sack dress to toa a reaction against the curves of Jayne Joyne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe Queen Victoria reacted differently differ differ- entry however when Albert cast admiring eyes on a Scottish peasant girl dressed in a roc red flannel petticoat According to the research de de- of The World Book Boole loot I I Encyclopedia the queen ordered a red flannel petticoat for herself herself her her- self Belt and began the fashion typical typical typical cal of ot her reign The French Revolution took the tho frills out of ot Parisian dress for fora forIt a It little while and substituted its own somber Bomber tone The guillotine gull guil left its mark in the Titus coiffure cut very close at the back bade with the front arranged in loose ringlets A red necklace I Iwas was worn and sometimes a red shawl to complete the effect Another hair style was Initiated ed by accident when the wind t off nt the hat lint nf of the Ihn th D Duchess n of Fontanges at a royal hunting party The resourceful duchess tied her hair with her ribbon n garter The next day all the court ladles ladies appeared with a headdress a la In Fontanges The wife of an Austrian archduke archdUKe archduke arch arch- duke Introduced a new color by airing her dirty linen Isabelle Isabella had vowed not to change her linen until her armies had taken the town of Ostend The Tho siege lasted more than three years And for Cor more than a century afterward f fashionable men and women dressed In yellow-gray yellow dubbed Isabelle Isabella color During the he Middle Ages long long- toed shoes denoted wealth and dignity The style has been blamed blam blam- ed cd by some on a Frenchman who reportedly Invented It to hide hido the huge bunions on his feet Ceet About the year 1800 Lord Spencer set out to expose the capricious fashion world lIe He Is said to have made a bet that he could launch a meaningless fashion that would become popular popular pop pop- ular in six months Whereupon he cut off his coattails with a pair of sheers and went out for lor fora lora a walk In two weeks all London had adopted the style and the spencer spencer spencer spen spen- Jacket was born |