Colonial Undergarments
The Colonial Undergarments (also known as Felicity's Colonial Undergarments) was introduced to Felicity's Collection in 1992(?) and retired in 2008. Retail cost was $18.
Stays
Cream stays. Slight curve. Flexible plastic boning. Lace up the back. Originally ribbon; later a shoelace.
Linen pocket on fabric tape waist tie. Floral embroidery.
The pocket can be positioned to align with the side slits in the majority of Felicity's dresses.
Hoops
Two cream pocket hoops on a fabric tape waist tie. Internal wires to keep shape. Slits allow hoops to be a substitute pocket.
They are called hoops in catalogs, but are more accurately panniers.
Trivia
- Felicity's stays are laced in a shoelace style; however, stays at the time would have most likely been spiral laced.
- Flat fronted and wide pannier style hoops with no back padding would have been phasing out of fashion in English influenced dress styles such as in Virginia; the silhouette was more a rounded skirt shape from above with bulk at the back as well as the hips, with padding by either tapered bum rolls/bumps, rumps, or split padding to accommodate pointed backs. A more accurate style bum roll--though lacking the pointed ends for shaping--is seen in the later released undergarments in 2017.