{"id":131,"date":"2023-07-12T15:48:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=131"},"modified":"2023-07-12T18:33:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:33:49","slug":"the-red-petticoat-fashion-fad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/the-red-petticoat-fashion-fad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Petticoat Fashion Fad [published April 23, 1882]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"127\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/redpetticoat.jpg?resize=127%2C260&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I heard my women folks the other day mention that the red or striped petticoat was beginnin\u2019 to come into fashion again. I don&#8217;t bother myself much about women&#8217;s gear, but really this red petticoat has quite a little local and general history connected with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The red Petticoat was originally a Russian institution, worn by Russian peasant girls or female serfs. The French fisher-girls also used to wear it, and it got to be popular in stormy times among the fish-women and other women of the lower class in Paris. So both despotism and democracy had the red petticoat in common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After a while the red Petticoat got adopted as an article of dress by some eccentric ladies of rank, and of course all the rest of the female world followed suit, and the red petticoat made its first appearance in tip-top society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; From London it found its way to New York and Washington. A lLady Gore Ousley, who was herself I think, an American lady married to a foreign nobleman, is said to have been the first lady to wear it in America, as an article of fashionable apparel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It was made of wool, but it wasn&#8217;t, properly speaking, a red petticoat but a red and black one, red ground with black stripes, makin\u2019 it quite striking and picturesque. As a sportin\u2019 man once called it, \u201cit was a rouge et noir petticoat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It took the eye, and it took the town. It was just as much a rage for a while as \u201cbanged hair\u201d has been. Every other woman had a red petticoat, and would contrive to let every man she met know that she had one on. The ladies at Washington adopted the fashion, and from the District of Columbia it spread all over the Southern country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Everybody didn&#8217;t like it though; one minister pitched into it from the pulpit and said it reminded him of \u201cthe scarlet woman of Babylon.\u201d And Dr. Charles Mackay, who was then travelin\u2019 in this country, wrote a song against it, in which he said that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u2018She<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With the red, the flauntin\u2019 petticoat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Is not the girl for me.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One of the Astor family, Charles Astor Bristed, a clever writer, took up the cudgel in defense of the red petticoat, and \u201cPrince\u201d John Van Buren also took its part. So it didn&#8217;t lack for distinguished male champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At that time it was held that General Fremont wore his hair parted in the middle, and as Fremont was popular then, a lot of young swells parted their \u201ccapillary coverin\u2019\u201d&#8211;as Frank Brower used to call it\u2013in the middle. One of these hair-parted-in-the-middle chaps one day said somethin\u2019 against the red petticoat, and then the red petticoat people went for the hair-parted-in-the-middle people, and between the two there was quite a lively war of words, in which I think the hair-parted-in-the-middle people got the worst of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The red petticoat is associated with a startlin\u2019 occurrence. One day at a public dinner the subject of the R. P. came up, and a number of ladies and gentlemen got discussin\u2019 it. Among the party at the dinner was Mr. James G. Ring, a well-known New York lawyer. He listened to the R. P. chat awhile, and then took a part in the discussion, rather favoring the R. P. While talkin\u2019, Ring was fixin\u2019 some lobster salad for a lady sittin\u2019 next to him. All of a sudden in a twinklin\u2019, just as he handed the lady the lobster, the lawyer fell forward on the table dead\u2013stone dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A bullet through his heart couldn&#8217;t have killed him swifter or surer. He died without a groan. He looked the picture of health, too, was a handsome man, and only a little over forty years of age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There was, of course, great excitement at the table, and the dinner was ended at once. A doctor made an examination and pronounced his disease paralysis of the heart. It had nothin\u2019 to do with red petticoats, of course, but somehow it was noticed that from that time the rage for the red petticoat declined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Just before the red Petticoat had come into fashion there had been a great deal of \u201cfinancial depression\u201d in New York, which made things look blue awhile. For some time the fashionable women of the metropolis had to \u201ccurtail their expenses,\u201d which all fashionable women hate doin\u2019. But at last a smart lady conceived the idea\u2013the very bright idea\u2013of turnin\u2019 the very panic into pleasure and havin\u2019 fun out of financial ruin. The way this clever lady managed to do this was very simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; She gave what she announced as \u201ca poverty party,\u201d and invited about five hundred people, who all came to see the novelty, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, the hostess wore her best dress and her family diamonds. There was no \u201cpoverty\u201d about her, but all the appointments of the \u201cparty\u201d were on a scale of \u201cpoverty.\u201d Instead of a band of Music there was only one performer on the piano; instead of flowers and decorations in the rooms everythin\u2019 was unadorned; and when it came time for supper, instead of having a splendid \u201cspread\u201d there was only cakes and lemonade. The lemonade itself was weak, and there was no \u201cstick\u201d in it. It was a \u201cpoverty party\u201d truly, and its very novelty tickled the guests, who enjoyed it heartily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For a while these \u201cpoverty parties\u201d were very popular, especially with the husbands and fathers of the ladies who gave the parties, as they combined novelty and economy, two things not often found together in New York. But soon the sensation wore off, and poverty and poverty parties were alike consigned to forgetfulness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; About the time of the poverty party there were several big social scandals in New York which kept Mrs. Grundy in food for gossip for six months. There was a lady who was the wife of a New Orleans druggist, and who aspired to be the belle of the United States. She had very fine eyes, and a very small waist, which was \u201ctight-laced\u201d still smaller. She used to boast that it wouldn&#8217;t require an arm to go round her waist\u2013a hand would answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; She likewise posted that she had a different dress for every day in the month, and two dresses for the Sundays. She kept quite an extensive establishment, and spent her husband&#8217;s money faster than he could make it. She dashed about the country, travelin\u2019 from New York to Saratoga and Newport, and was very seldom, if ever, seen with her husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But she had several lovers, and one of \u2018em was a New York swell belongin\u2019 to a big family. His name got to be constantly mixed with hers, they were seen constantly together, and one day the husband made a public matter of the whole affair, and published a very spicy card about it, showin\u2019 up the New York lovers completely. Public sympathy was with the injured husband, and the swell and the lady were obliged by public opinion to subside, the lady finally leavin\u2019 New York and sinkin\u2019 into obscurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Another \u201ccelebrated case\u201d just then was the trouble between the handsome Mrs. Woodman and her husband, in which young Furniss, a New York swell, and others, were indirectly connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A third affair was a very spicy encounter between a lah-de-dah sort of young chap and the \u201cleadin\u2019 lady,\u201d or principal singer of the choir of a fashionable church. The lah-de-dah chap accused the lady of goin\u2019 behind the organ and bein\u2019 made love to by the leadin\u2019 tenor of the troupe\u2013I mean the choir. The lady confessed to disappearin\u2019 behind the organ durin\u2019 every sermon, regular, but said she did so to get a chance to get asleep, which wasn&#8217;t very complimentary to the minister\u2019s eloquence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Well, one day the lah-de-dah chap, who had been circulatin\u2019 all these reports, happened to be up in the choir loft, he bein\u2019 a friend of the organist, who himself had a grudge against the tenor for cuttin\u2019 him out of the good graces of the lady, and who was therefore satisfied to get even with his favored rival, even at the lady\u2019s expense, and through the agency of such a mean-spirited cuss as the lah-de-dah chap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The lady happened to see her traducer sittin\u2019 there by the organ, and she couldn&#8217;t endure it. Church as it was, the service goin\u2019 on, the indignant leadin\u2019 woman, the infuriated prima donna rushed to the lah-de-dah chap and seized him by the hair of his head and pulled him along.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Before anybody could interpost to interfere, the lady had hurled the lah-de-dah chap out of the choir loft, down the back stairs, and then, as soon as she got out of the hearin\u2019 of the congregation, she pulled out a rawhide and literally whipped him out into the street, bein\u2019 about the only case I ever remember hearin\u2019 of in which a man was flogged out of church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; About the time of which I&#8217;m writin\u2019 in this chapter New York was also kept in a flutter by a young man by the name of McCarthy, with three handles to it, his full name, which the owner was very fond of usin\u2019, being William Fitzcharles Eustace McCarthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; McCarthy was a rather handsome man, a splendid talker and with inexhaustible impudence. Naturally enough, therefore, he got along well with women\u2013too well, in fact, for the women, for he brought dozens of \u2018em to grief, includin\u2019 a most worthy wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; McCarthy was mixed up in the Cuban filibuster business as a spy and go-between, in the pay of the United States Government. He managed to get a hold of some letters written by the Cuban insurgents, or which he claimed were written by \u2018em, and he contrived to get a prominent Government official to believe in him and his letters and to buy \u2018em both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With the money obtained by either betrayin\u2019 the Cubans or foolin\u2019 Uncle Sam, McCarthy went to London and kept a harem, pretendin\u2019 to be interested pecuniarily and heavily in American wines. As long as his money lasted he splurged; then, afraid to try any of his fine points over in England, where the law was not so liberal as in \u201cthe land of the free and home of the the knave,\u201d as a wag once sarcastically parodied it, he came to New York again, where he got implicated in a big diamond swindle, and finally he took himself to Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After he got rid of his wife he met a fine young American lady, a relative of General Sickles, and made love to her, finally elopin\u2019 with her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I heard my women folks the other day mention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion","category-scandals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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