Ballet Skirt

“She was not wearing the ballet-skirt,” she answered. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys (1945)

It is no ordinary corset, in fact, but a piece of a ballet-dress, being part of the tight-fitting bodice upon which the flounced ballet-skirt depends. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys (1945)

Now after so many, many years of family sacrifice, was he going to make a fool of himself, and give his enemies a hold on him, just because of the first ballet-skirt that came along? ❋ Vicente Blasco Ib����ez (1897)

Let no one underrate the sustaining power of costume, whether it take the form of ballet-skirt or monk's frock. ❋ Lucas Malet (1891)

_ballerine_, and wore the old-fashioned ballet-skirt with its volumed gauze, -- a coyness which the Englishry had greatly modified, through an exigency of the burlesque, -- perhaps because indecorum seems, like blasphemy and untruth, somehow more graceful and becoming in southern than in northern races. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

He thought Fred Leslie's exact imitation of him, face, spectacles, voice ” everything was like Henry except the ballet-skirt ” in the worst taste. ❋ Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 (1908)