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Rh ;Girdles. Open skirts are generally fastened by a half-hitch at one side; but with the closed variety girdles are sometimes worn, and these may be either a long fringed strip of narrow cloth with striped ends, or a specially woven article such as GS 13, which belonged to a Shan peasant woman of the better class.

GS 13 (Fig. 24). This girdle consists of a narrow strip of cloth averaging 8 cm. wide and being about 390 cm. in length over-all, i.e., including the fringed ends which are formed by the warp. It is specially interesting because at twelve places, equidistant throughout the length, the weft is beaten up more closely at one edge, thus producing a curve in the cloth. This is so marked that when placed flat the strip of cloth forms a semicircle; which would make the girdle close fitting and more