[Elfsea] [Fwd: Killer Krinolines]

[Terri Head]

This is why I prefer Violet!

Violet of Glamorganshire


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From: Betsy Marshall <Betsy at mailhost.softwareinnovation.com>
Reply-To: elfsea at ansteorra.org
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:23:22 -0500

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>Beware the green dress!
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>From: "Christopher Ballis" <stilskin at netspace.net.au>
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>Subject: H-COST: Killer Krinolines
>Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:00:43 +1000
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>-Poster: "Christopher Ballis" <stilskin at netspace.net.au>
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>...or a good excuse to be used by us blokes the next time some chick asks us
>to go along to some prissy ball...
>
>(From The GoodWeekender, the magazine that falls out of a Melbourne Saturday
>newspaper):
>
>
>It is 1862. At the London ball season crinolines are the rage. A young lady
>is wearing 20 yards of green tarlatane. Silk would have pleased her more but
>tarlatane is a passable substitute since it can be made to shine in a silky
>way.
>
>The tarlatane comes from Leipzig where they have the knack of laying a paste
>of starch and copper arsenite (called Schweinfurt green) onto cotton. When
>the paste is dried and polished, the cloth dazzles like an emerald.
>
>Fully rigged for dancing in matching gown, headdress, fan and shoes, the
>young lady is carrying enough arsenic on board to kill everyone in the room.
>If-she dances till the late hours in a jostle of overheated bodies,
>thousands of lethal green particles, loosened from the paste on her dress,
>will lift and spin in the whirls and eddies of a room shut tight against the
>damp air. When she raises her fan, which has lain between times in the folds
>of her gown, or when her dress is admired and the folds extended, she will
>dust her partners with green death.
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