On May 2, 2009, at 14:08, [email protected] (Devon) wrote:
Good grief! Why would anyone want a skirt made of felt? And why a
poodle? Why not some other dog?
Because it was cool!
Funny... I "sold" my parents on "Cossack boots" -- leather foot with
leather back and front stripes and upper "band" and felt body --
because they were *warm* <g> But yeah, they were all the rage, because
the felt wasn't *grey* (as in the boots of the Soviet Union army); it
was *coloured*. Mine had black leather and black-and-red plaid felt.
And even a wee bit of a -- slightly tapered -- heel. Way "cool", though
I had enough sense not to mention that aspect, because...
Gawd! You sound like my parents!
I never had any cool stuff. Everyone else had cool stuff.
...when I tried to get a matching "jockey hat" with my winter coat on
the basis of "everyone else has one", I got the standard parental
response "and if everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you? Are you a
monkey, a parrot, or a thinking human being?"
My objection to felt skirts is that they had to have been terribly
impractical. Skirts -- like most clothes -- are prone to getting
stained and felt doesn't wash well; after washing, it would have, in
all likelihood, looked like a poodle had chewed it. I had a full
circle, *cotton* skirt, which I wore, both: with the gathered,
stiffened, and "boned" tule underskirt -- very girlish/stylish -- and
without (very sexy, with all the "swish"). I'm still partial to circle
skirts -- cotton, wool, heavy silk -- because they drape beautifully.
But felt doesn't.
And then, there's the puzzling issue of the poodle, of all the many
dogs available. Why *poodle*? Was it because a poodle is, basically, a
very clever dog (ecept for the Royal Poodle, which is as dim-witted as
I've ever come accross. Well.. There's also the Dalmatian...), but
which is made to *look* silly, to satisfy some perverse tradition? Like
the girls of that era, who had to hide their light under a bushel and
pretend to be stupid, so that they'd look "ladylike"?
And, Clay... I never thought that wearing a fancy bra instead of a
blouse was "cool", (or sensible), either, so don't ask *me* why someone
would want to do it :)
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