... High-kilted perhaps, as once at Dundee I saw them,

Petticoats up to the knees, or even, it might be, above them

Matching their lily-white legs with the clothes that they trod in the wash-tub!

...

... In a blue cotton print tucked up over striped linsey-woolsey,

Barefoot, barelegged he beheld her, with arms bare up to the elbows,

Bending with fork in her hand in a garden uprooting potatoes!

A. H. Clough (The Bothie of Tober-na Vuolich).

As I came through the desert thus it was,