Petticoats in Popular Culture
The phrase Petticoat Government has referred to women running government or domestic affairs. The phrase implying the threat to appropriate government by males was mentioned in several of Henry Fielding's plays. An Irish pamphlet Petticoat Government, Exemplified in a Late Case in Ireland was published in 1780. Frances Milton Trollope wrote Petticoat Government: A Novel in 1850. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote Petticoat Government, another novel, in 1911.
A 1943 comedy film called Petticoat Larceny depicted a young girl being kidnapped by grifters. In 1955, Iron Curtain politics were satirised in a Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn film The Iron Petticoat. In the same year Western author Chester William Harrison wrote a short story "Petticoat Brigade" that was turned into the film The Guns of Fort Petticoat in 1957. Blake Edwards filmed a story of an American submarine filled with nurses from the Battle of the Philippines called Operation Petticoat.
Petticoat Junction is a TV series that originally aired in 1963, ran for seven seasons, and achieved enduring success in syndication. The opening sequence featured a display of petticoats hanging on the side of a large railroad water tank where three daughters are skinnydipping.
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Famous quotes containing the words petticoats, popular and/or culture:
“And men left down their work and came,
And women with petticoats coloured like flame.
And little bare feet that were blue with cold,
Went dancing back to the age of gold,
And all the world went gay, went gay,
For half an hour in the street to-day.”
—“Seumas” “O’Sullivan” (1879–1958)
“O, popular applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)