How to wear hosetops?

[Pleater]

Yesterday - out in the garden, I was burning some old fence panels and I stepped on a nail in an old post top. It went through the sole of my shoe and into my heel, and so fixed me to the large piece of mesh it was under.

Eventually, after some pulling I got myself free, inspected what might have been on the nail, washed my foot and went to call the health centre to check on the date and effectiveness of my last tetanus shot - and finding I should be protected, I went back to work.

Today I see an image of pinned heels and feel all queasy.

Maybe because it isn't real it actually affect me more. I mean that the idea of someone creating the image is why I get the heebbies looking at it.

Strange.

When I looked at the first picture I thought that they would make good sleeves for a lady - it was quite common at one time to wear knitted sleeves over smock or blouse sleeves but under the shorter, wider sleeves of a gown, particularly in cold weather.

Anne the Pleater

[Galician]

Strange. When I looked at the first picture I thought that they would make good sleeves for a lady - it was quite common at one time to wear knitted sleeves over smock or blouse sleeves but under the shorter, wider sleeves of a gown, particularly in cold weather. Anne the Pleater

How interesting to hear that! When I entered the monastery in my mid-teens, I learned that it was common to wear half-shirt sleeves (think cuff, then a sleeve reaching to the elbow) under the sleeves of the cassock we would wear.