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Hi, Rusty!
Wow, what an engineering feat!
Both in building the set-up with such patience, and delicacy, and in creating the chain reaction for knocking it all down.
Incredible!
I have managed - in between watching a recorded episode of "Casualty" - to do six clues in the February Times Monthly.
It seems a very difficult puzzle this month...for me, anyway.
It always involves quite a lot of research......but it is a good learning process!



Hello, Pigale!
I liked the mini and the midi fashion lengths the best!
I didn't like the maxi.....and the knee length follow-up was just plain boring!
As Maurice Chevalier said ...."Ah yes, I remember it well"!

Hey Jigjag, thank you, but I do believe that one should age gracefully -
I still dress 'fairly' modern, but within limits ....

Having said that, at times I am still 17 in my mind!

Elle, one of my favourite outfit was a rather mini kilt (fashionable
in Paris at the time) worn with knee high boots and a mid-leg
long coat ! I really liked the contrast between the two lengths!


And then came the round trousers - do you remember those?

Hello, Elle and Pigale!
Here's a much shorter one by this talented young girl.
I think she has done quite a few.
She may have her own YouTube channel.
I'll have to investigate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo6x4eulY9g

Rusty, I have a feeling - perhaps wrong - that this girl was part of
the youngsters' group in the previous link? Or else they look pretty
much alike.
Look towards the end of the fist link, when she is sitting down
placing the dominos, and again towards the beginning of the second
link, when again she is placing dominos. Not at the end because
she is not wearing her glasses then.

Hello, Pigale!
Yes, that's her!
Her name is Hevesh5 and she has lots of videos on YouTube.
Several years ago the producers of America's Got Talent asked her if she would like to audition for the show, but I do not know if she appeared or not. (must find out!)
I think she is super!

Hi, Rusty!
Thank you for the second domino clip.
It is a very skilful art that is required for the placing of all these dominoes so that they will fall down in the knock on effect.
Very well done to Hevesh.

And Pigale, well spotted for recognising Hevesh in the earlier clip.
I missed that connection.
I am unsure what you mean by "round trousers"?
And I wonder retrospectively however did we walk in our stiletto heels?!

Good morning, Elle!
Milder today but still frosty!
Hevesh5 has many videos on YouTube.
The hours and days she must put in to achieve her "sets" is incredible, and painstaking.
Could "round trousers" be "loon pants", I wonder?
Now, what shall we discuss today?
Yesterday was "skorts" and "domino toppling".
Time for a change?

Good morning Elle and Rusty!

A total change in the weather in that we are back with our grey sky!
Anyway, not too cold and no snow/rain/ice etc... so I guess it'll have
to be Okay!

Just a quickie before changing the subject,

Elle, round trousers were the rage in France just after the Loon Pants -
They were very tight fitting around the hips, and then the legs were
just two tubes without any seam or crease. They were very attractive
when worn by the right person, ie someone fairly slim, otherwise
they made one look shapeless.
As regard the stilettos, they improved the shape of the leg, but once
again so long as the wearer knew how to walk/dance with them!

Good morning, Pigale!
Grey sky here, too, today, but less cold.
I don't think I had "round trousers" and I certainly did not wear stilettos!
Maybe they were only for ladies!