Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
One cannot deny that particularly Russia, China and North Korea are involved in an arms race towards the shortest uniform skirts for their soldier girls.
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Silent_Water
Tribune
Yes, but the more militaristic a nation's society is, the more necessary it is to shorten the uniform skirts of female soldiers.
Funny for me - being a rather "pacifistic" German, that all the communist powers used "our" Prussian-German "invention" of the so-called "Preußischer Stechschritt" (= "Prussian Piercing Step") for their military parades and the more their governments love their military, the more "German" their parades are looking for me:
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Funny for me - being a rather "pacifistic" German, that all the communist powers used "our" Prussian-German "invention" of the so-called "Preußischer Stechschritt" (= "Prussian Piercing Step") for their military parades and the more their governments love their military, the more "German" their parades are looking for me:
Goose step - Wikipedia
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Hugin&Munin
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The skirts are too long, 10-15 cm less would be better.One cannot deny that particularly Russia, China and North Korea are involved in an arms race towards the shortest uniform skirts for their soldier girls.
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LittleSiss
Sorceress
dfg42
Senator
Well remembers me of the cancan dance, some time ago.....One cannot deny that particularly Russia, China and North Korea are involved in an arms race towards the shortest uniform skirts for their soldier girls.
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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Years ago, I read this comment : 'A platoon of soldiers marching is step, is just another way of dancing!'
A different interpretation of "ready for action", I suppose.
dfg42
Senator
probably one should note the movie "Generals daughter" here with Leslie Stefanson, somewhat related. And John Travolta played in it!
What made the can-can so sensational in the late 1800s is what the girls were wearing under those gorgeous frilly skirts - nothing!
twonines
LIMERICUS
A rather more sanitised version than the one put on by La Goulou and her colleagues for the future King Edward VII!
Apparently the appearance of undergarments in burlesque and can-can may be tied to the 19th century fascination or fetishization of women's undergarments. Many ordinary women did not wear underwear or drawers, it seems, as these drawers not only concealed the genitals, but also called attention to them, and so they were considered risque for respectable women. They were apparently mainly worn by prostitutes. Additionally, drawers may not have been closed at the crotch, and might have been in two parts (separate legs) which simply tied together with ribbons or tapes. In that sense, in early can-can, even when undergarments were introduced, it might have been to make things more titillating, rather than more modest.What made the can-can so sensational in the late 1800s is what the girls were wearing under those gorgeous frilly skirts - nothing!
Yes they may have worn frilly drawers of that 'crotchless' sort, but apparently the titillating bit was the brief glimpse of pubic hair (no silly shaving in those days)Apparently the appearance of undergarments in burlesque and can-can may be tied to the 19th century fascination or fetishization of women's undergarments. Many ordinary women did not wear underwear or drawers, it seems, as these drawers not only concealed the genitals, but also called attention to them, and so they were considered risque for respectable women. They were apparently mainly worn by prostitutes. Additionally, drawers may not have been closed at the crotch, and might have been in two parts (separate legs) which simply tied together with ribbons or tapes. In that sense, in early can-can, even when undergarments were introduced, it might have been to make things more titillating, rather than more modest.
Ah, the good old days.
malins
Stumbling Seeker
Yes, back then, when shaving was done, it wasn't silly, they were dead serious about it!
Dorothea Tanning, 'Tableau vivant' (1954). Tanning was an American Surrealist, celebrated for her wild, other-worldly paintings. Her dog, a Lhasa Apso terrier named Katchina, appears regularly in Tanning’s work. Sometimes the dog is the artist's alter-ego and at other times appears as a witness or protagonist.
That's a vicious puppy.
Gibbs505
SERVORUM DOMITOR
Thats a BIG puppy!That's a vicious puppy.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
One of my favorite surrealist paintings, by Dorothea Tanning : 'Birthday' (1942).
And it rhymes with Victor Brauner's 'Kabyline in Motion' (1937).