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Default Chair Design Accommodating the Ladies

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Hmmm!? - On a side note: After thinking about it, a moment, I'm surprised those French ladies had any objection as to how their skirts were accommodated.

Sonny



Bear in mind that from the 1300s to the early 1900s skirts often had
some kind of frame underneath, some of them of rather ludicrous
proportions.