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Show THE BALLET SKIrVJV It I a Funny Frilled Petticoat and May I Be Adapted to Ordinary Wear. The fussy frilled petticoat known as the ballet skirt is now worn by fashionable fashion-able women under evening and dance gowns, but nearly reaching the ground. First, there ia a close fitting yoke of muslin, which is cut in four parts and reaches well below the average corset and very much below the short corset , worn for skirt dancing. On to this yoke j is set in full gathers or flat plaits a wide skirt of the muslin, edged with a j frill of lacs put on slightly full. This i skirt reaches from the yoke to the full depth required, and over it at the B line another skirt is simulated by a deep frill, also edged lace, and put on so that the bottom edge is half an inch above the edge of the under lace, thus giving an extra full and ample effect. When worn, so wide is this skirt that it gives the appearance of a multitude of lace petticoats, and the dancer usually usual-ly catches the center with a safety pin or a few stitches about 10 or 12 inches below the yoke and practically converts it into a divided skirt. These ballet skirts are also made for ordinary wear in dark silk. |