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AG: Eight Days of Gibson
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:27:55 -0400, Joy Beeson
wrote: On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 11:41:43 +0700, John B. wrote: I didn't know what a "french knot" is so I looked it up on the Web. and found a site labeled "How to Make French Knot Easy Way Hair Style", in 11 steps :-) I make it in three steps: twist hair into rope, fold rope, let it ply itself while pinning to head. My hair was long enough that I usually had to tuck some extra under the knot. "French knot" in embroidery is an entirely different critter. A Gibson is pretty much the same thing, except the hair is combed to the crown instead of the nape, and the rope is wrapped around the base. And I use hair pins instead of bobby pins. It took me decades to learn how to use hair pins because nobody I knew had long hair, so I had nobody to tell me that you stick them in pointing out, then turn them to point in. I suspect that there are still trails of hairpins on the University of Indianapolis campus. (Which I never attended; there was a small religious college on the site at the time.) I think I've found the same website: "You can mimic second day hair with product, which will be discussed later." doesn't save much space over "pour a little olive oil into your palm and rub it into your hair." I use castor oil, which was left over from my spouse's soap-making hobby. "it’s important to work out all the tangles and knots". I usually do, if I have time, but tangled hair holds longer. I wouldn't go so far at to "tease" it. This section seems to have been written for people who got long hair overnight somehow and don't know how to comb it. But you should *never* assume that an instructee knows anything unless you are standing right there to watch him. Unmarried women here in Thailand and in other parts of Asia wear their hair long in a single "pony tail". My wife, when I met her, could literally sit on her hair, although she didn't as that "was not the thing to do". When they marry they change to a shorter style and yes after we were married she did cut her hair although it was sort of "in stages". Some this month and a little shorter next month, etc. On topic story! Once I was stopped at a light waiting to cross Railroad Avenue in Albany, New York. I think I was in a car. The road slopes sharply down from there -- I hated going the other way on a bike -- so I had a good view. I saw a guy who was coming toward me on a bike negotiating his way across the lanes, and thought "Yea rah! Somebody has been told that you move left before turning left, instead of riding in the gutter to the intersection, then making a mad diagonal dash across six lanes and a railroad!" But when he reached the left-turn side of the inner lane, he kept on negotiating across the oncoming lanes, went around the corner in the left gutter, then had to cross two lanes and a railroad to get back into the right-hand gutter. I try not to have to cross six or eight lanes of traffic and my "Bangkok Rides" were all mapped out to avoid it. Over here we drive on the left side of the road and my bike routes were so I only turned left. -- cheers, John B. |
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