--- "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...> wrote:
> > Con-clothing is fun..........There may be no
> > recourse but to describe these
> > things in full-- or consider making an
> > illustrated dictionary!!
Yay!
> > > 1) A main garment made of two halves, each
> in the shape of a half-torso,
> > > an arm and a leg. Some kind of "body
> suit", I suppose, but is there a
> > > better term for this?
> >
> > Does it come apart completely, into the 2
> halves? How odd, to have e.g.
> > one's left side completely clothed, the right
> side uncovered....:-)))
Have obviously never seen some Daine clothing
styles... ;)
> It does come apart completely into 2 halves.
> There are two different kinds
> of fastenings that hold the halves together:
> there are the "hooks" (some
> complex mechanism which I haven't worked out
> yet), and there are the
> "buttons" (button-socket combinations).
Possibly like them little things women have to
fasten bras at the back? They're like nasty
little microscopic hooks and eyelets.
> Hooks are employed for along the
> back and between the chest and the groin, and
> buttons everywhere else. The
> hooks are very firm and more difficult to
> fasten/loosen; the buttons are
> easily fastened/loosened.
>
> The usual way to wear it is to first fasten the
> hooks along the back, then
> climb in, and then fasten the hooks on the
> front, and finally press the
> buttons together. (And then put on the other
> two articles on top of this
> main garment.)
Cool.
Padraic.
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