[Elfsea] [Fwd: Killer Krinolines]

Betsy Marshall Betsy at mailhost.softwareinnovation.com
Tue May 29 18:23:22 PDT 2001


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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>

...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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