Re: [lace-chat] Uses for Stockings: was: holding bobbins down for travelling
On 1/30/07 4:11 AM, madame RD wrote: but what about butch cut and in a gibson butch cut is a derogatory term for crew cut. The phrase went out of style when the little boys wearing butch cuts grew up and kept on wearing them, so it's not surprising that someone under sixty hasn't heard it. A gibson is a very old do -- found on neolithic figurines, I believe, and popular in ancient Japan -- but it takes its name from Charles Dana Gibson, whose Gibson Girls tended to wear it. It's quick and easy: just twist long hair into a knot on top of the head. Ideally, the knot should be low and flat -- I unwind it half a turn after forming it -- and the hair that's not in the knot should pouf a little. If the knot is tight and pointy, and the hair is slick and tight, you've got a Mama Katzenjammer. The Katzenjammer comic strip was modeled after Max und Moritz, but I googled up an on-line copy and their mama did not appear, and the two women who did appear didn't wear such a do -- but would have looked right at home with someone who did. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the lake has frozen over. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Uses for Stockings: was: holding bobbins down for travelling
Off-topic reply, moved to Chat: On 1/26/07 5:00 AM, Daphne Martin posted on Lace: A lady I know uses the pants off a pair of tights [washed of course] to cover the whole pillow. to keeps her bobbins etc in place. They cause a lot of hilarity at lacedays. But it works!!! Which reminds me of Dad walking around the house with one of Mom's old stockings on his head after washing his hair, to flatten his cowlick. (I didn't know I'd inherited his cowlick until I started wearing my hair in a gibson.) When butch cuts came into style in the fifties, he switched to cutting the cowlick off, and wore a crew cut the rest of his life. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where winter is finally here but the lake ain't froze. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Uses for Stockings: was: holding bobbins down for travelling
Joy said Which reminds me of Dad walking around the house with one of Mom's old stockings on his head after washing his hair, to flatten his cowlick. (I didn't know I'd inherited his cowlick until I started wearing my hair in a gibson.) I've never heard of a gibson Joy, what is it? jenny barron NE Scotland, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
