Thanks, Ann.
Pays to ask questions or be corrected when incorrect. I was under the
impression that a lady never spread her legs apart, regardless of the
layers that covered her.
Susan
"Slow down. The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel
too fast and you miss all you are traveling for". - "Ride the Dark
Trail" by Louis L'Amour
On Mar 7, 2006, at 10:35 PM, Ann Catelli wrote:
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
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