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   BYDEZINE | Nov 29, 2002 07:55pm | #1

   I am not sure a short skirt will stay down with weights in it. it is the pull from your hips and rear that makes a short skirt rise, not the weight of hem. weights are generally used on a fuller and longer garment to make it hang properly. they often look like washers and are inserted inside the seam at strategic points and tacked down.

   Ball bearing would move around, click slightly and while interesting, I don't think you would get the effect you are looking for.

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   mulholls | Dec 13, 2002 08:21pm | #2

   I recall having seen somewhere, perhaps for curtain hems - a notion that was very tiny balls on a thread chain with the entire ball/chain wrapped in some sort of white thread or fabric.  It came in different "weights" depending on the size of the balls.   I was told at the time it was for dress or curtain hems.     When I asked why someone would wish to weight a dress hem I was given the example of the Queen of England doing so in order to prevent her skirts from blowing up.  THe other reason being to make a longer hem hang properly.

   I do agree with the posting on  short hem length being the factor --- I don't know that on a short skirt anything will really help --- and anything you put in the hem you'd end up sitting on.