Thinking about spinning tassels...

I chuckled while designing this piece.The tassels reminded me of a story my mother told me recently. When she was a child, my grandmother and a dear friend took my mother and her sister to the movies.  Prim and proper, the women sat with their two charges, waiting for the feature to begin. "In those days" my mother explained, "there was entertainment before the movie started. Sometimes it was a newsreel or maybe a side show type of act." That day, music began to play and a woman took to the stage and proceeded to dance a little striptease, complete with spinning tassels. My mother and my aunt doubled over with laughter, at the show, but mostly at the blanched faces of my grandmother and her friend.