[Ansteorra] Fw: hoop petticoat

[mmarthe at suddenlink.net]

Tivar,
I love your quote.
Marthe de Blenkinsop

---- Chris Zakes <dontivar at gmail.com> wrote: 
> At 11:45 AM 1/31/2008, you wrote:
> 
> >  If I remember correctly mine had some type of plastic in it.  Why couldn't
> >  you use the stiff, slice your finger if you're not careful, plastic straps
> >  that are used to secure boxes.  The ends are glued/fused together.
> 
> 
> In my experience, unless you're working with *really* heavy banding 
> plastic and really light fabric for the skirt, the plastic banding 
> won't stand up well enough to make a decent hoop. Steel banding will 
> work, and if you leave an opening in the channel in the skirt where 
> the hoop goes, you can pull the banding out when you want to wash the skirt.
> 
>          -Tivar Moondragon
> 
> "Bustles were back in fashion in the city for some inexplicable 
> reason, but her only concession there was a bum-roll, which achieved 
> a certain perkiness in the rear without the need to wear twenty-seven 
> pounds of dangerously spring-loaded underwear."
> 
>                          -From "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett 
> 
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