What do you mean it's not 1954?

      Several weeks ago, I bought the cutest pale yellow skirt on the planet. I've been really into yellows lately and this just screamed "summer" and "soda shop" and "sock hop" and other words that start with 's' that are spectacular (yes, chose that word on purpose).

      You know how, when you buy things online though, they're not always what you think they'll be like? Well, that's sort of the way it happened with this skirt in that it wasn't as full as it looked in the pictures. I had it hemmed a bit by my local tailor (yes, I have a local tailor, located right next store to my local handyman!) and that helped give it a bit of pep, but I knew it needed something else.

      But what?

      So of course I emailed Sister #1 and was like, "Do people still buy petticoats? If so, where do I get one?"

      There are really only two answers to the question of where to find a petticoat: 1) the internet or 2) your local seamstress. And unfortunately, my local tailor is not quite a seamstress, so we had to go with option 1.

      Has anyone else noticed lately that the internet is an abyss? Because it is. And shopping for a petticoat online is possibly one of the most difficult things I've done with the internet. It didn't help that I know literally NOTHING about petticoats. Like what one is supposed to look like. How are you supposed to tell pictures apart? Also, the internet is full of costume petticoats. But I didn't want a costume petticoat, I wanted something a normal person could wear every day, or at least something that I could wear every day.

      Internet, let me save you a lot of trouble on this one. Go straight to Etsy.com. I'm probably an idiot for not thinking of it in the first place.

      BAM! Petticoat paradise. Not only that, but so much clarity on the differences between petticoats, pettiskirts, pettislips, you can pretty much put "petti" in front of anything and buy it on Etsy. Aaaaaaa-mazing.

      A mere two weeks after I began this adventure, I have a lovely, custom-made pettislip (less oompf than the petticoat and perfect for an already pleated skirt like this one). I bought it in traditional white, but there are a gazillion (or 13...more like 13) colors available, as well as choices of materials (I went all organdy). And now I can rock the 1950s like Ike's still president.

      Holla to the fallout sheltah!