Extra! Extra! Bustle seen flying through the air!!

[madamemodiste]

Well! That was a bit of an adventure! I was doing the grommets/washers on the bustle stays out on the deck of our 4th floor apartment so as to not bang on the floor directly above someone's living room. The timer went off for the laundry, and I stopped my grommeting to go change it. When I came back, the bustle was gone!! I flew to the railing and looked down. There it was in someone's bushes!! How embarrassing!

I ran down and got it. So the lesson is: Don't leave your bustle untethered outside or it will act like a sail and catch the wind!

Comments

[stypica.livejournal.com]

how very un-lady-like!

I know!!

[madamemodiste.livejournal.com]

And can you imagine someone looking out their window in 2008 to see a BUSTLE flying through the air? Or to look out your window and see one casually sitting in the bushes like any old discarded paper bag blown there by the wind?? LOL!!

Re: I know!!

[stypica.livejournal.com]

I imagine most people today would have no clue what it was:)

Re: I know!!

[madamemodiste.livejournal.com]

You're right! They'd probably think it was some small pet tent or something!!

[christylee.livejournal.com]

Lord, what did the muggles think?!?

[madamemodiste.livejournal.com]

I think I may have offended many a ladies' sensibilities by the vulgar and shocking appearance of my undergarments in public view!

[christylee.livejournal.com]

Such a hussy you are!! The village will be all flutter with whispers when you pass over such a scandal.

Classic!

[kambriel.livejournal.com]

So how do we find someone to make a comic illustration with us traversing the high seas... in a bustle-sail boat???

Re: Classic!

[madamemodiste.livejournal.com]

That would be AWESOME!!

Re: Classic!

[prisbatty.livejournal.com]

...sits on hands so there wont wind up being a pen in it...

i think you just lived a rock'n'roll moment

[sindia.livejournal.com]

if there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now.
it's just a spring-clean for the may queen.

Re: i think you just lived a rock'n'roll moment

[madamemodiste.livejournal.com]

Hee hee!!

[quincy134.livejournal.com]

Did you take a picture of it sitting in your neighbor's bushes?

[madamemodiste.livejournal.com]

LOL!! How well you know me! I almost did!

[prisbatty.livejournal.com]

THAT would have been a good one.

I think every good web site needs a bloopers and disaters page.

I have quite a few lined up.

[johannajanette.livejournal.com]

That's hysterical!! ...and something that could only happen to you, talented and diligent as you are! :)

[madamemodiste.livejournal.com]

...and something that could only happen to you

LOL! I know!! I'm such a spaz!!

[bauhausfrau.livejournal.com]

LOL! There has to be a kite joke in there somewhere...

[madamekat.livejournal.com]

Suddenly, I'm mentally writing a story in which our Victorian heroine escapes the top of the castle using her bustle as a parachute!

[medvssa.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha!

[valleyviolet.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you weren't wearing it at the time! :P