just this afternoon I saw a display of lacy garters in a lingerie shop, and
one of them was so unusual that I want to tell you all about it.
Instead of being gathered and frilled, it was a smooth strip, so I suppose
it fastened with a velcro spot, or some such. This strip was placed just
above the knee, and was the support for a fringe of narrower strips of lace,
about six inches long, which hung down like a string skirt, (or very sparse
hula skirt, perhaps). With the leg slightly bent, the knee peeps through,
shy but provocative. [...]
Well, there you are. Now I'll just leave it to you clever designers to develop suitable patterns!
There we are, indeed... :) *Designing* such a piece would not be a lot of trouble; it might even be a lot of fun. But what about the *making* of it? If a traditional garter (one piece, twice around the leg) is an effort, then think about this one: a wide one, once around the leg, then some 20-30, narrower, short ones hanging from it... Each starting with bobbins wound in pairs and false footing, each sewing off (invisibly but securely) into the "mother" (once around the leg) one.... And all for a *garter*? Which few people ever see?
Unless I'm visualising it all wrong, I'd sooner trade places with Sysiphus... :) Winding short lengths in pairs is not my favourite passtime (though I do do it all the time), and finishing them off has even less appeal (I ought to have picked lace *other than* Milanese for my "metier" <g>)...
OTOH....
It occurs to me that something similiar might serve as a "disposal" for all the samples we make as beginners... Attach your samples (3-6" long), hanging down, to a part (3rd? half?) of a *circular* edging, and you have a collar/frontspiece, instead of a bagful of samples... :) It would look a bit like those bits of bone strung on a leather thong (or flat pieces of silver or gold, if we go back to Roman times); very exotic... And, at least, you could *display* it (and more than once, too <g>)
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