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elastic loop inside through which many ladies thrust 

 the right foot to keep the skirt down. If really 

 well made, it will require no such aid to retain it in 

 its place. The footstrap is often added by the wish 

 of the wearer, simply because either she, or the man 

 who puts her up, does not know how to arrange her 

 skirt, so as to make it hang as it ought to do. The 

 practice of weighting the bottom of the skirt with shot 

 is also unnecessary if a good tailor be employed. Some 

 ladies have a loop stitched to the inside of the skirt, 

 through which they pass the left foot, before putting it 

 into the stirrup. This loop serves to keep the skirt 

 down. However effective these loop arrangements may 

 be for park hacking, they are hardly applicable for 

 hunting, or rough work. Care should be taken that 

 the curved seam which is made in the skirt for the 

 right knee, should fit it exactly. " Your habit-maker 

 will, of course, put large hooks around the waist of 

 your bodice, and eyes of corresponding size attached 

 to the skirt ; so that both may be kept in their place " 

 {Mrs. Power O' Donoghue). To prevent the cloth wear- 

 ing out too fast, some ladies have that part of the 

 skirt, which passes over the pommel, lined with black 

 leather. It is just possible that the unyielding 



