Monday, April 27, 2009

Be Ever On the Look-Out

Beet Girl's getaway vehicles
include, but are not limited to, the following:
-- a small pick-up truck either gold or ahite
--an emerald green, woman's 3-speed Raleigh. Think Miss Almira Gulch (aka Wicked Witch of the West) on her      bicycle.*

oh yes, sometimes she takes off on foot.
Whooooosh.

* The bicycle was recognized by nineteenth-century feminists and suffragists as a "freedom machine" for women. American Susan B. Anthony said in a New York World interview on February 2, 1896: "Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammelled womanhood." In the 1890s the bicycle craze led to a movement for so-called rational dress, which helped liberate women from corsets and ankle-length skirts and other restrictive garments, substituting the then-shocking bloomers.

From http://fusionanomaly.net/bicycles.html

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