> I've become a great wearer of braies not for warmth, but for comfort at > sweaty, sticky summer events to keep my inner thighs safe from chafing.
> > As for hose, as others have said we typically see women in knee-high hose, > but if you've ever worn a skirt in the winter, you know how the wind can > whistle around up underneath. I see no reason why women wouldn't have worn > nice tall, wooly chausses in the wintertime. Evidence for this is another > matter, of course, but I can't help but think practically about these > things. > > -Helena My two cents on this, I have found that if you don't want the chaffing, walk slower, Living in south Texas, even when not in costume, that if you walk slowly, chaffing is not an issue anymore. The other thing I've found is that when your skirts drape upon the ground, there's no draft and you stay quite warm. Lift the skirts to move about and then you get the drafts and cold. It would seem there's more to that fashion than conspicuous consumption. for what it's worth alex -- I can handle anything that life throws at me. I may not be able to handle it well, or correctly, or gracefully, or with finesse, or expediently -- but I will handle it. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
