Happy Birthday Juliana!
Excuse me? Who gave you permission to exist?
Cordelia ,'Beneath You'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Jul 17, 2006 7:29:30 am PDT #7028 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
§ ita § - Jul 17, 2006 7:31:14 am PDT #7029 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was getting ready to leave anyway.
I ended up standing in the doorway to the apartment, since with it open there was a wonderful breeze. Got yelled at for letting mosquitoes in, but I have my priorities.
sarameg - Jul 17, 2006 7:35:48 am PDT #7030 of 10002
While I was in NM, it was close to 100 F just about every day. But it was quite bearable. Hell, I spent most of sunday outside, getting periodically cooled off by the nephew attacking with the spray bottle.
I got back to Baltimore around midnight. Pilot says the current temp is 67. I walked outside and was immediately enveloped in a thick cloud of damp heat and started sweating.
NM 100 was hot, but Md's 67 felt so much worse.
ChiKat - Jul 17, 2006 7:37:35 am PDT #7031 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
The thing that always gets me is thinking about the 1800s, especially in the south. All those layers of clothes, and no fans.
Surprisingly, the layers help with the heat. I've been out in 90's weather in a hoop skirt, petticoat, etc, etc and because of the layers, you get some airflow and it keeps you cooler. Assuming, of course, your layers are cotton which mine were.
Calli - Jul 17, 2006 7:42:44 am PDT #7032 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I could see hoop skirts being useful when the temperature climbs. The skirts would shade your legs while the hoops would keep the material at a distance. Corsets in the heat, however, seem like they'd be awful.
ChiKat - Jul 17, 2006 7:53:30 am PDT #7033 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
The corsets I wear (and like they wore back then) are cotton and they didn't do a lot of tight-lacing. I wear a cotton chemise under my corset, too.
Theodosia - Jul 17, 2006 8:07:26 am PDT #7034 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I find that if I can steel myself to do it, completely eschewing AC for a couple of days will 'reset' my body thermostat so that I don't feel as hot. However, no can do when I have to spend most of my days in office AC, even if I wanted to.
msbelle - Jul 17, 2006 8:11:01 am PDT #7035 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
office is so cold I am wearing a lightweight wool cardigan.
Lunch is giant salad I made last night: mixed greens, white turnips, radishes, tomatoes, cucumbers, red peppers, carrots, and grilled chicken. It is the yum.
JZ - Jul 17, 2006 8:11:17 am PDT #7036 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Plus, when your legs are all nicely breezy and ventilated via the airflow created by the hoopskirts, your whole body feels cooler so the corset doesn't bug as much.
Jesse - Jul 17, 2006 8:15:41 am PDT #7037 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am thinking desert clothes for the light-yet-fully-covered look might be the best way to negotiate between my warm apartment, the hot outside, and the chilly office. Either that or a hoopskirt.