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Re: Hiking in Skirts

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From: Chris Townsend
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:18
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In message <QdhQc.5708$T5.327974@weber.videotron.net>, Pete Hickey 
<pete@bitman.uottawa.ca.DELETE.ME> writes
>In article <1r7qg0pb5ub0r4hshi5mcegq3qjvtgr80g@4ax.com>,
>Galen Hekhuis  <ghekhuis@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 16:42:44 GMT, Gary S. <Idontwantspam@net> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 13:52:49 GMT, "simplesimon"
>>><simon.elliott903@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>I think I'd rather have the wet legs than be seen in a bin liner skirt :-)
>
>>>Agreed...
>
>>I disagree.  I don't give a damn what other people think.
>
>I used to think like Galen.  Or at least I thought I used
>to think like him.  I've recently been made aware that I
>am very fashion conscious in the backcountry... I never knew
>I was, but the photographs don't lie.
>
>Maybe related to my latent homosexuality... something else I
>didn't know about, and came as a surprise to me.
>
>HOwever, in spite of it all... I WOULD wear a skirt!  As long
>as the colours went with the rest of my wardrobe.
>-Pete

Black goes with everything!

I was criticised - lightly - recently for wearing a pair of rather 
bland, dull looking trail shoes in the hills. "You don't look like a 
hillwalker", I was told, as if the appearance mattered more than the 
reality.

Be bold Pete, set the fashions, don't follow them!
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Subject: Re: Hiking in Skirts
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