Timeline for answer to Could you do acrobatics and long-distance running in an ankle-length dress? by user_629957
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| Dec 8, 2018 at 14:49 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | And you too @Jedediah! | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 14:49 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | Also @K.Price thank you for all of your thoughts again! :D | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 14:49 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | @Alissa great solution! | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 13:25 | comment | added | Alissa | @KeizerHarm How about sawed in strings (not sure of proper name for these)? Something similar to this picture: n1s1.hsmedia.ru/2c/13/6e/2c136e82800d480379c362499e2a0ff9/… , but with fixed ends at the bottom and loose ends somewhere around waist. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 21:35 | comment | added | user_629957 | @Jedediah - that’s a very good point about fabric. Cheaper fabrics tend to be the coarser/heavier ones, and in a temperate location such as Sumer, I’d imagine that wealthier individuals would wear lighter, finer clothing, rather than the thicker, heavier fabrics more typical of colder climes. Purely from a comfort perspective, I’d imagine they’d opt for looser clothing rather than skintight items - and a skirt loose enough to allow you to use stairs should provide enough freedom of moment for reasonable acrobatics, from my experience! | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 21:30 | comment | added | user_629957 | @KeizerHarm - slits in dresses do risk making the legs visible, so it’s perhaps not an ideal solution if they wish to avoid indecency in their society. Your witches could wear leggings underneath their dresses (something I’d advise for any self-respecting witch who intends to spend time upside-down in a dress ;-) ), which gives the added benefit of being able to tuck one side of the dress in at the waistband for ease of movement. This could be easily unhooked if others are around, and might just look like lifting a skirt a bit to avoid tripping. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 21:26 | comment | added | user_629957 | @chasly from UK - tying up skirts tends to be fairly quick (you just pick up two handfuls of fabric from the hem at the bottom, and knot them together, generally at your hip, so it stays out of the way). It’s also very easy to undo in a hurry. But you’re right, it can need retying/retightening fairly frequently if you’re moving around a lot - although it’s very simple, just as if you were adjusting a shirt you’d tied around your waist. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 17:43 | comment | added | Jedediah | I like this answer... But bear in mind that fabric is almost incomprehensibly more expensive when everything is hand-woven (and hand-carded, and hand-spun, and hand-dyed, and hand-picked, and...). Voluminous skirts may have economic and social implications - not the least of which being a suggestion of great wealth. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 17:36 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | I am leaning towards using the knot, but question: how visible is the slit variant in regular walking? Is a leg likely to "slip out" after an accidental stumble and cause great indecency in the ancient society? :-) | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 17:31 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | Tumbling/parkour is a good way to describe it indeed... Thank you very much for the very detailed answer! | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 17:27 | vote | accept | KeizerHarm | ||
| Dec 5, 2018 at 17:24 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | Fascinating. Does tying the skirts in a knot (a) take very long (b) require regular retying as they work loose (c) be quick to release in order to appear 'normal' again? P.S. Thanks for saying that a split skirt is called a culotte! I didn't know. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 17:13 | history | answered | user_629957 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
