This Chuvash girl:
August Ahlqvist wrote that Chuvash women wrap multiple layers of cloth around their legs, because they consider thick legs to look pretty (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44817 ("Muistelmia matkoilta Venäjällä vuosina 1854-1858") ("Memoirs from trips to Russia in the years 1854-1858")):
Vaimoilla sitä vastaan on omituinen pukunsa, joka kesällä on sangen yksin-kertainen, nim. paljas paita, ulottuva polvea alemmaksi, jalassa virsut samoin kuin miehilläkin ja sääret samoin käärystellyt, mutta hyvin monin kerroin, sillä kuta paksummat sääret tschuvaschilaisella hemmettärellä on, sitä viehättävämpänä pitää hän itsensä, joka ihmeellinen tapa löydetään myös ei ainoastaan Tscheremisseillä vaan muillakin Suomalaisilla, niinkuin Vatjalaisilla Inkerin-maassa ja, Kreutzwald'ia myöten, Pleskov'an Virolaisillakin.
Translation:
The wives have a peculiar dress, which in the summer is rather simple; a bare shirt which extends below the knees; shoes made out of bark like among the men, and the legs similarly wrapped, but in a large number of layers, because the thicker legs a Chuvash belle has, the more beautiful she considers herself; which peculiar custom is not only found amongst the Cheremis, but also among other Finns, such as among the Votics in Ingria, and as far as Kreutzwald, among the Estonians of Pleskov.
Originally Posted by PaleoEuropean
Idk if I can explain it to a lady, my grandma might come back from the grave and pull me by the ear.
well, ok i was just going to fend for slim girls but maybe its better to leave it there.
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