Hi Konrad:
As a collector of Imperial's Town and Around range the Petticoats series is near and dear to me (there are plans to eventually expand it to civilian men, children etc. like Town and Around). As you say - it was a welcome change from combat/military figures and they also went nicely with Redcoats and Bluecoats.
Our intent is to keep adding to the range but at a slower pace. There will be no new ones in the February catalog but look for more later in 2010. The logic there is that while they have done well with our core collectors the intent was to begin exposing "toy soldiers" to female collectors through gift shops - this has been a slow but fruitful process - so we want to give the range a bit more time as it stands to make inroads into this new group of collectors before adding many more new ones.
Best Regards,
Richard