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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
I've also noticed that some people call them fender skirts (as opposed to
wheel skirts). But I've never heard "fender pants"  |
MetroMPG,
Strangly, your statement sent me spinning off into recollections of my
grandmother. She was a product of the Victorian and Edwardian ages, and
was one of the few women of her generation that went to college, Smith or
Wellesley -- your memory is the second thing to go.
In response to a complaint that you were dripping with sweat, she would
say, "Horses sweat. Gentlemen and young gentlemen perspire. Ladies and
young ladies "mist."
She insistited to her dying day, at the age of 102, that "men wear trousers,
women wear pants." She at least would say that I got the gender switch all
wrong. As "pants" there was a female connotation, and that continued and
was made stronger, or was clarified, as "skirts."
Anyone want to try to promote the idea of "fender/wheel kilts?"
Elderly female tourist: "Sir, can you tell me what is worn under your kilt?"
Scotsman: "Nothing madam, everything is in perfect working order."
