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Originally Posted by Baron1710
It is possible that the harness would wrap that skirt up so that it wouldn't be immodest. But It seems like the pictures were of a harness that they stepped into but there may be different ones.
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Every one I've seen is a standard sort of rappelling type harness with "holes" for each leg and attached at the crotch. Just to get into the thing a lady has to hike her skirt up over her waist. The whole thing will then parachute over your face - from the waist up, exposing whatever you were prudent to wear underneath.
Skirts on women are intended to keep them from participating in many activities and occupations. That's the reason women's apparel and men's apparel took such a divergence in form during the Middle Ages.
In the Victorian era it was demanded and considered a sign of "civilization" for the women to be chained by their skirts from participating in "manly" pursuits such as horseback racing and scaffold climbing. In antiquity, everyone was expected to labor together so the tunics and robes were a bit more similar for functional reasons.
Sorry... veering off topic... feeling kind of cranky today.
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