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>And the chain-mail-bikini crowd - wearable, but is it art?
-Carol
Comment:
Sorry to bring up SCA again but this reminded me of SCA in the early
eighties when from time to time a woman showed up in a chainmail bikini and
called herself a barbarian. Most were late teens and a few older women.
Once, one of the older women showed up to a winter event in `83(?) in a
chainmail bikini. The hall was chilly but the men found it quite warm when
she was around. To say the least the bikini was not lined, nor were the ends
of the links welded, so you could tell she was quite perky and every once in
a while snagged a hair or two or maybe three.
Having learned from experience or other people's experiences these women
started wearing the rabbit fur lined chainmail bikini.
Then when colored wire became available you got artistic patterns with the
chainmail bikini, sans the fur but lined.
Outside of the SCA I saw two men wearing chainmail "loincloths" one was
really in good shape, the other....well...needed more chainmail so that
there was more to leave to the imagination. Both learned the hard way about
unlined, unwelded ends of links.
De
Back to the regular schedule programs.
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