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women and wore
Both men and women wore parkas below the knees.
Dio says that she was " possessed of greater intelligence than often belongs to women ", that she was tall, had hair described as reddish-brown or tawny hanging below her waist, a harsh voice and a piercing glare, and habitually wore a large golden necklace ( perhaps a torc ), a many-coloured tunic, and a thick cloak fastened by a brooch.
At Economy, on special occasions and Sundays, women wore silk dresses using fabric of their own manufacture.
On a typical day, women wore ankle-length dresses, while men wore pants with vests or coats and a hat.
Traditionally, unmarried women wore a style of kimono called furisode, with almost floor-length sleeves, on special occasions.
She smoked, wore trousers, and drove cars, unusual for women at the time.
Since 1965, the pickets had been very controlled: women wore skirts and men wore suits and ties, and all marched quietly in organized lines.
:“ This was one of the most beautiful women in the world, and she wore this dress that was very revealing.
Unlike Athenian women who wore heavy, concealing clothes and were rarely seen outside the house, Spartan women wore dresses ( peplos ) slit up the side to allow freer movement and moved freely about the city, either walking or driving chariots.
Through the first half of the 20th century, women wore underwear for three primary reasons: to alter their outward shape ( first with corsets and later with girdles or bras ), for hygienic reasons, or for modesty.
Many people wore, and still wear, garments consisting of rectangles of cloth wrapped to fit — for example, the dhoti for men and the sari for women in the Indian subcontinent, the Scottish kilt or the Javanese sarong.
During the Middle Ages, both men and women wore pattens, commonly seen as the predecessor of the modern high-heeled shoe, while the poor and lower classes in Europe, as well as slaves in the New World, were barefoot.
Although Aniston disliked the hairstyle she wore during her first two years on Friends, " The Rachel " became and remains very popular among women.
" Thoreau also wore a neck-beard for many years, which he insisted many women found attractive.
As with other adolescent, white middle-class movements, deviant behavior of the hippies involved challenging the prevailing gender differences of their time: both men and women in the hippie movement wore jeans and maintained long hair, and both genders wore sandals or went barefoot.
Men often wore beards, while women wore little or no makeup, with many going braless.

women and skin
It is said that expecting women wearing a live amphisbaena around their necks would have safe pregnancies ; however, if one's goal is to cure ailments such as arthritis or the common cold, one should wear only its skin.
Orthodox women will traditionally dress modestly by keeping most of their skin covered.
** Reduction mammoplasty (" breast reduction "): removal of skin and glandular tissue, which is done to reduce back and shoulder pain in women with gigantomastia and / or for psychological benefit men with gynecomastia
Recent human clinical studies showed that S-equol provided as a standardized soygerm-based dietary supplement helped reduce menopausal symptoms, bone loss and crow ’ s feet skin wrinkles in menopausal women.
Nowadays women wear a head cloth and skirt but wear the reindeer skin robe in cold weather.
After successful kills, the women processed the bison meat and skin: the flesh was sliced into strips and dried on poles over slow fires and stored.
Jessie escapes the handcuffs by slicing her arm open all the way around on a broken glass and giving herself a degloving injury in order to lubricate her skin enough for the cuffs, which were made for men and not women and thus almost loose enough for her to slip out normally, to slide off her right hand.
59, 695 people in the United States were diagnosed with melanomas of the skin, including 38, 484 men and 25, 211 women.
8, 623 people in the United States died from melanomas of the skin, including 5, 672 men and 2, 951 women.
Everyone looked emaciated ... the most shocking sights were the babies ... nearby stood another mother with a shrivelled bundle of skin and bones in her arms ... Two old women lay as if dead on two cots.
The trend is followed mostly by young women, and was created as a rebellion against the traditional Japanese image of feminine beauty, which includes fair skin, natural looking makeup, and conservative dress.
Their collective cultures are known as " Creole ", though many non-Louisianans do not distinguish between the two groups, or do not recognize the distinctions made in the New Orleans area between the original white colonists whose offspring were the original first born in Louisiana and Creoles that were a mixture of people of European ancestry and slave populations ( or free men and women of color ) and whose skin was mulatto for lack of a better descriptor.
Adults with the disease may also have symptoms of extreme weight gain, excess hair growth in women, high blood pressure, and skin problems.
Another popular trend is for women ( and in some cases, men ) to use Halloween as an excuse to wear sexy or revealing costumes, showing off more skin than would be socially acceptable otherwise.
is an alternative fashion trend of blonde, pink or silver hair and tanned skin among young Japanese women that peaked in popularity around the year 2000.
They include perverts who skin children alive, disembowel pregnant women, burn alive entire families, and kill newborn babies in front of their mothers.
Usui used specific hand positions to treat specific ailments and dis-eases ( discomfort ), which included disorders of the nervous system ( such as hysteria ), respiratory disorders ( such as inflammation of the trachea ), digestive disorders ( such as gastric ulcers ), circulatory disorders ( such as chronic high blood pressure ), metabolism and blood disorders ( such as anaemia ), urogenital tract disorders ( such as nephritis ), skin disorders ( such as inflammation of the lymph nodes ), childhood disorders ( such as measles ), women ’ s health disorders ( such as morning sickness ), and contagious disorders ( such as typhoid fever ).
The actual first description of Wusun may be found in a Western Han dynasty book of divination, the Jiaoshi Yilin, where the Wusun women were described as " ugly and dark colored people with deep eye sockets ," and the reported dark skin complexion may suggest South Asian origin.
Nepalese women and girls, especially virgins, are reportedly favoured in India because of their fair skin and young looks.
Antiandrogenic drugs can help to counteract male hormones that cause skin and hair problems in women.
Filial piety is considered so important that in some cases, it outweighs other cardinal virtues: In a more modern example, “ concerns with filial piety of the same general sort that motivate women to engage in factory work in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and elsewhere in Asia are commonly cited by Thai prostitutes as one of their primary rationales for working in the skin trade ”.
The squads allegedly harassed and attacked women if their head-to-toe burqa veils revealed skin and men if their beards did not meet the required length.
Arden did a consumer research to ask women want kind of skin would be desirable and one of the unanimous answers they got was to have the skin that looks healthy, even without makeup.

women and seal
Aleut seamstresses created finely stitched waterproof parkas from seal gut, and some women still master the skill of weaving fine baskets from dune wildrye grass or Elymus mollis.
In 1994, after seeing Minerva and Medusa on the bronze seal at the west steps of the State Capitol, Pastor Margo Brown called it " an affront to women and Christian faith.
All these stories grow, possibly, out of older mythologies about seal women common in world mythology from early times ; Celtic stories about selkies and the Kalevala's fish-woman tale are of this genre.
On her seal, she is called " Queen of Sweden, Norway and Scania "; she is not wearing a veil on the seal which was unusual for married women in this age.
Shiro gathers the women, kids, and old people into a part of the castle that the soldiers can't enter because it is protected by a seal.
Very lightweight and maneuverable, it was made out of seal skin sewed only by Aleut women, over a frame made strictly of drift wood ( since no trees grow in the Aleutian Islands ), bone and sinew.
Although the umiak was usually propelled by oars ( women ) or paddles ( men ), sails, sometimes made from seal intestines, were also used, and in the 20th century, outboard motors.
Aleut women are still today famed for their basketry and sewing techniques, capable of weaving grasses into watertight baskets and sewing seal gut into watertight raincoats suitable for the open ocean.

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