Petticoat Junction

I finished the corded petticoats for the costumes. I haven't starched them yet, so they are still kind of floppy, but this is what they look like. The "hoops" are actually formed by cotton rope sewn into welts. (I asked Mike to get me some rope at the hardware store a couple weeks ago, and that it had to be all-cotton but I pretty much didn't care about the diameter. He came home with three hanks of clothesline, which was the only all-cotton cording they had. So voilá, the clothes line petticoat.)