Spreading the legs apart when they are decently covered with long skirts is perfectly okay.
Ruth M. Green, in her "Wearing of Costume", mentions that keeping the legs together in long skirts is not particularly decent nor is it necessary. The eighteenth century in particular showed the 'broad lap'. The nineteenth century Huck Finn was caught out when cross-dressing--a girl would spread her legs to let her skirt catch something thrown, while Huck, used to pants, closed his legs to catch something. It wasn't until the short skirts of the twentieth century that it became "not Nice" for a girl to have her legs apart. Mistakes mine; it's been a while since I read Ms. Green's book. Or Huck Finn. Ann in CT --- Susan Data-Samtak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The "propriety point" is that a LADY did not spread > her legs apart. > > Susan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
