Re: Those mystery things on your website, was Re: I have a new machine

That cracks me up that my great grandmother would use them to hold her "purse"
on....but then, she was VERY frugal, and rather eccentric.
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Jalynne
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> "joy beeson"
> > I've had two people identify them as garters, and one said
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> > Why grandma had two when you need four, I don't know.
> > Perhaps there were two decorated and two plain, and only the
> > decorated ones were kept when uglier, but easier to use,
> > garters came along?  Or, perhaps, she used them as bag
> > tethers, as your grandma did.
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ -- needlework
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> I hope no one is offended by what I'm going to say, but they look like
> garters for a woman's "time of the month". I'm not THAT old, but I do
> remember them. The garters get hooked onto a kind of belt or girdle.
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> Here is a link, tell me what you think.  See the safety pins?
> Sanitary Napkin Belts
> http://www.mum.org/belthick.htm
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