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Jack Murdock was an American actor. He was born in 1922 at Ohio and died in 2001 of emphysema. He is best remembered for his role as Chief Machinist's Mate Tostin in the 1970's television series 'Operation Petticoat' and for the role of John Mooney in the 1989 film 'Rain Man'.
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Guns Of Fort Petticoat is a western starring Audie Murphy, Kathryn Grant, Hope Emerson and Jeff Donnell in a story about an army deserter training a settlement of women how to defend themselves against an attack by American Indians seeking revenge for a massacre. Guns Of Fort Petticoat was directed by George Marshall in 1957.
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Petticoat Pirates is a comedy starring Charles Drake, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker, John Turner and Maxine Audley in a story about a group of Wrens taking over a warship. Petticoat Pirates was directed by David MacDonald in 1961.
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A Balmoral was a 19th-century long woollen petticoat, worn immediately beneath the dress and showing below the skirt.
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Crinoline is properly a kind of fabric made chiefly of horse-hair, but afterwards the term was generally applied to a kind of petticoat supported by steel hoops, and intended to distend or give a certain set to the skirt of a lady's dress. Hooped skirts (farthingales or fardingales), supported by whalebone, were worn in the time of Queen Elizabeth I and James I, and the fashion was again introduced in the time of George II. The crinoline proper came in about 1856, and was worn by women of all ranks, sometimes proving by their portentous dimensions a source of much inconvenience and no little danger. The 19th century crinoline was essentially a wire frame which hung from the waist, preserving a swollen appearance of over-skirt. In ballrooms, crinoline gave the lady dancers great grace, hanging from the waist as it did it allowed great freedom of movement of the legs and the skirt to flow. The danger of crinoline resulted in many women being entangled in traffic or blown over cliffs and a campaign was undertaken by reformers, the magazine Punch included, to dissuade women from wearing it and the immense bell-shaped crinolines fell into disuse about 1866. Crinoline wire was for years a leading branch in the steel trade. A horse-hair and cotton fabric formerly used as a material for making ladies' bonnets was also called crinoline.
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A kirtle was a sort of upper garment, a gown, petticoat or short jacket.
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A petenlair is a type of women's fitted, long-sleeved, short jacket originally from France where it was developed during the mid-18th century. The petenlair has a sacque back and is worn with a petticoat and a skirt of a matching fabric.
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A petticoat is a woman's undergarment consisting of a skirt which is intended to be seen - distinguishing it from a slip or half slip which is not intended to be seen.
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Rhinegrave or petticoat breeches were men's breeches worn from the seventeenth century. Unlike earlier breeches they were not gathered at the knee, but were decorated with ruffles, lace and ribbons.
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A sari is a garment worn by women consisting of a six-meter long piece of cloth, one meter wide, worn wrapped around the body over a blouse and petticoat.
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