[lace-chat] Re: Getting a rise out of the pants

2003-09-10 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 22:44 US/Eastern, Martha Krieg wrote: Rise is just the technical term for how high the body part of the pants is. Body part??? I thought body meant the biggest part of whatever, and that's the *legs* in pants... g A young relative had them on the other day, no

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Getting a rise out of the pants

2003-09-10 Thread Ruth Budge
Just after we'd been talking about this subject on Arachne a week or so ago, I was involved in handing over my late Father's business (importing Scottish clan history books into Australia) to the new owner. He is a man who, for years, has run a Scottish business in Sydney, selling Scottish gear