I could have used this advice last weekend when I was traversing the countryside and my carriage was attacked by mustachioed banditos looking to steal my collection of priceless Rubies. Normally I'd use my mastery of Kung Fu to shoo them away but they caught me in my best ball gown so I had no choice but to surrender my jewels. Well never again banditos! because I subscribe to Jill Bearup's youtube channel
@ Sōsuke Aizen I’m sorry, I have to do this or I’ll go crazy, but I think you mean “madame.” A “madam” is a woman who controls prostitutes, while a “madame” is a proper lady.
I would LOVE to see a movie wherein a "gentleman ruffian" lends a lady his tie so that she could spar with him properly. Why raid a society ball if not to make it fun for everyone?
Not to mention that a good period linen or wool does NOT tear with any ease. My first time buying long-strand linen I learned that unlike cotton, you can’t make a little snick on the selvedge and rip across for the length you want. No. You have to cut it all the way across.
While the ripping fabric method looks distinctly badass, the tuck in method means your gown can be used again provided you do not get too much of the blood of your enemies on it.
@@JillBearup if the dress isn't made out of protein based fabric (not silk nor wool), but for instance cotton, then gall soap (time period appropriate) can help remove stains that have partially set as gall soap eats through protein stains. Gall soap is also great against grease stains. Don't wash with gall soap using bare hands unless you want to have your skin partially dissolved, because collagen is a protein that bile happily muches through.
Show them your dominance by protecting your dress: i don't know what's more badass than showing you know you will survive and that your only concern is not ruining your dress after being attacked
@@ConsciousAtoms reminds me of the lyrics to a murdering song (Birthday Massacre - "Happy Birthday"): "I wore my black and white dress to the Birthday massacre [...] Then we wished them all a happy birthday We kissed them all goodnight. Now he chases me to my room, Chases me to my room, chases me In my black and red dress"
I got a good laugh out of imagining a group of henchman appearing and go: "Prepare to die" and the heroine holds up her hand and is like: "Okay, give me a few minutes" and begins to tie up her dress, while the henchman are too dumbfounded to know how to deal with it. :D
Note to self: If a man finds thyself confronted by a maiden of fire wrapping her dress and sleeves, tis the word of the wise to nimbly and with great haste, run o'er yonder to avoid catching ye olde fade.
The loins-girding is well explained, but if wuxia's taught me anything, it's that having long flowing sleeves that swoosh around while you swordfight only increases your combat ability.
I'd love to see that in a movie! Female character punches or kicks a man in his privates, rips his belt off, says: "One second" and ties up her dress with it then proceeds to kick his ass along with many others. Extra points for if they take the belt off, fix their dress and then rejoin the party or whatever they're at as if nothing happened.
Damn, I was sitting in my house the other day when I group of ninjas broke in to steal my prized anime action figure collection. I was OBVIOUSLY in my man-dress at the time so I couldn't fight to my full potential. I had my fedora and katana with me luckily, so I was able to reach 70% of my maximum power... I only needed 3. But unfortunately while I was taking care of the 20 ninjas in my living room, another had broken in and stolen my Hatsune Miku body pillow and My Little Pony figures. The dress got in my way as I tried to chase them down... and they escaped. If only I had known then what I do now. Thank you Jill Bearup, with your help I will have my revenge, and I WILL save my waifu!
A note on the hairpin: I have genuinely used one to defend myself once when I was walking back late at night from an event. Very, very useful to have on hand.
Girding one's loins for unexpectedly martial situations in formal wear seems like a worthwhile Channel and itself. Also, thank you for suggesting the ability to keep accessories which double as weapons as a justification for longer hair.
My rule of thumb with clothes is that if I can't comfortably kick someone in the face, then I don't want to wear those clothes. Hence why you'll never catch me wearing skinny jeans.
I feel like this should be in movies, the heroine doesn’t have time for a wardrobe change so she quickly does her best to tie up her gown while dodging or deflecting oncoming baddies until she is combat ready, could be an interesting fight sequence and doing something like this isn’t that common so it would be cool to see this incorporated
Thank you, normally I would've just pull my gown over my head like a flower that has not bloomed. But now I will be able to defend myself, I will be finally able to fight the bandits that keep stealing my bread. I don't know why they steal bread, but I guess they're just carb hoggers.
“I hope you enjoyed this video” oh I did, dear Jill. One minute and thirty seconds of to-the-point, useful information I have taken directly to heart. You have taught me skills I shall pass onto my daughters and ladies in waiting.
This is amazing advice! But I do have one question, what if you are forced to fight while wearing a gown involving a hoop skirt that cannot be easily removed. Just a few centuries ago I was in this situation in France. I was staying with a cousin and during a masked ball the chateau was stormed by angry peasants and there was virtually nothing I could do due to the large pannier (oval hoop skirt) I was wearing...never again did I return to France.
At such times the primary question becomes one of whether it's more embarrassing to spill the beans on victoria's secret or to get one's ass kicked by a now rather chilly and but considerably more lethal damsel. Provided you're of sufficient martial abilities it's more likely to be the latter, as anyone who would make light of your sartorial disadvantage would be having their attitude adjusted by a rather thorough session of retrophrenology.
I will keep this information since I'm wearing a form of big loose dress whenever I'm going out. Will try to look up for belts or maybe my hijab can be a substitute for belt for the meantime lol
Welp, my 40th Birthday Celebrations have so far not been invaded by untowardity, Though I can't be entirely certain that this will remain the case. Still, I'll keep a weather eye.
I think you should consider taking up shurikenjutsu. That is, as I am sure you've guessed, the practice of throwing shuriken. Shuriken are thrown weapons of two definite types, "Hira-shuriken" (wheel shuriken) multibladed weapons which spin end over in flight and "bo-shuriken" or (stick shuriken). Everyone and his mother knows about hira-shuriken, the "ninja stars" that you can find in souvenir shops in every Chinatown. Bo-shuriken are far less commonly known and have a number of advantages many of which derive from the technique of throwing them being essentially a metal rod with a point at one end, bo-shuriken are easy to make, easy to carry (a long hair ornament with a point at one end or even a large and heavy nail would make a very good one) and, being as it were, non-bladed weapons, they only become illegal to carry in the moment that you use one as a weapon. The technique of throwing them is simple to understand, and, unlike the kind of knife-throwing that circuses have made famous, they generally don't require less on-the-fly distance calculation for your weapon to hit point-first because the throw is a matter of causing the weapon to make only a half-turn over the course of its flight. Best of all, throwing bo-shuriken makes anything with a point at one end that is light enough to lift and be thrown into a "field expedient weapon." That includes everything from a Swiss army knife or a leatherman tool, to a butterknife, or even a steel knitting needle or an open pair of scissors. Until fairly recently, the art of Shurikenjutsu has been relatively obscure but this has changed a lot over the last decade, in part, as a result of the rise of interest in "no-spin" knife-throwing. Stranger still, the Meifu Shinkage Ryu school's Soke (head of the school and possessor of the style) has gone to great lengths over the years to promote his school's style by traveling all over the world licensing teachers in the technique to spread his school's knowledge. Here is a link to information on Meifu Shinkage Ryu. If you try it, happy throwing. czcams.com/video/vp0ULzeeAnc/video.html
As someone who always had to wear long flowing clothes, the best way to always be ready to fight is to have slits which are hidden. These slots are basically overlapped by layers of the cloth or secured by clip buttons so normally they’re fully covered but when necessary, they can be frayed open. In my personal experience, I’ve never had to gather the loose fabric or tie them up as long as I knew how they’d move when I made a move, but this usually comes with experience, so it’ll take practise if that’s what you want to go with. Plus, if you can, Always add pockets to your dress designs even if they’re from older sewing patterns which usually don’t have pockets, add large, concealed poachers to carry daggers ✨✨✨
I Always wanted to know that! 🙂Appreciate it ! Never knew what it meant in the Bible And as kid I never liked wearing dresses cause I couldn't play outside in them And I knew that you couldn't fight in them or run in them !
My solution is to opt towards dresses with slits, or at least slits on the outer/inner skirt in which case the other layer can be quickly and neatly removed
I have been postulating how a dress could modified to have the skirt hiked up for battle, (or crossing streams etc) in a way that you could do it with minimum effort and assistance. This video gave me some great ideas, including having a long ribbon sewn inside the skirt and connected to the skirt by a series of loops (think belt loops). You could then grab the hem of the skirt, find the ribbon, pull it up and tie it to a matching (and decorative) ribbon at the waist. This would hike the skirt to whatever height was needed, (within modesty) without looking like you are wearing a nappie and could then easily be let down after you are done battling off the non- handsome rogues and have no indication that you were fighting anyone, except for some wrinkles, (and possibly some blood stains.)
I love this, because we used to do this to our school skirts in the summer... they made us wear ankle length, thick skirts all year round and the Australian summer was not great for that, so we basically used the "make a nappy" technique all the time haha
Of course, this implies they are willing to give you the time to do all that stuff. Just wear a sword with your formal attire (or gun in a stylish ankle or thigh holster). I wouldn't say anything. Frankly, if I saw a girl wearing a sword or dagger with a formal dress, I would figure I just found the right girl for me.
Hm, you know, if you're the kind of woman who could expect to fight at any given time, I wouldn't think it would be so hard to discreetly modify gowns to cinch/snap/tie/wrap/etc at a moment's notice.
then the cycling victorian skirts should be the best option then, I found a lot of patterns about them, sadly I don't have the fabric to make any of those
For real though, the hair accessory/pencil to keep hair up is a tool for every night travel. Since learning a sharp pencil can do much harm, I have felt very safe travelling at night through the park. Love the vid ♥️
Another note: thinner dresses, like the kind you might wear in day to day life, the ones that don’t have any poof to them besides how the skirt already hangs, most of those dresses will actually let you tuck the skirt into the top of the dress by rolling it in. Grab from the part of the skirt closest to where the top begins, and tuck in it (shove your fingers up there, but not your hand) keep doing this until have about a thick donut around the entirety of your waist then roll the doughnut until you can’t see any wrinkles, which wrinkles make the skirt fall easier. I used this exact technique in a dance that I choreographed and preformed in, the dance was 2 minutes long, and we let our skirts down halfway through the dance, and in that half before we let the skirts down, there were Ariel’s and floor work. They still were up.
As a woman who hates having to change before going to duels and even just defending myself, I thank thee greatly for this. -Esmeray, Daughter of Jeykll and Hyde
Normally, I watch 3 videos by the same uploader. And, usually, If I like all 3, then, I subscribe. Rarerly, do I subscribe after watching just 1 video. This is one of those videos. I have been impressed and look forward to more with high expectations.
I enjoyed the acting - the facial expression - while wrapping sleeves. It reinforced the parallel with with rolling up one's sleeves. It was time for difficult business.
I quite like the intricacy of this method, but in my past of kung fu sword fighting I've found unsheathing you hidden dagger and tearing the gown's skirt and sleeves is appropriately intimidating and time efficient.
This information shall be of great use to me as my dearest friend and acquaintance, Gertrude, Lady of Whattingham was recently surprise attacked by a large group full of ungentlemanly gentlemen while she was in her carriage. She was wearing her wine red ball gown which she had worn previously to the great ball that was being held at the chateau that was owned by none other than Sir William of Barthansworth. She was in a perilous situation and was being robbed of her small collection of riches that she happened to be carrying that day as she was travelling to the Jaminraham market for the evening. She was unable to combat these foes as, like I said, she was wearing her elegant dress that was coloured red, she threw her small fortune off of her carriage to make the rude gentlemen jump away and steal hem, it is such a shame as Gertrude was unable to even reach Jaminraham to be able to purchase anything, thank you very much for this information and I shall use it if I am even in a situation like Gertrude was.
This was a fun video and I loved the tip for wrapping long sleeves and will be applying it in the future when washing my hands or wearing a coat. Thanks! :)
I don’t know if I ever commented on this but it came up again recently for me. I bought a dress to try this for writing research. I couldn’t get mine to tie. But I see you met similar experiences.
This is surprisingly useful, I write fanfiction with female fighting characters and I have a bachelor party coming up where many will be in dresses but will end up in a fight.
Truly, you are never too prepare to fight for your life at a social event, thus it is with quite delight I shall subscribe. For all of those baddies out there that may be willing to lend out a tie, bless you.
Oh how lovely, although oftentimes my sleeves come undone from all the movement despite being rolled up. I remember a while ago when my carrige was attacked. It was flipped on it's side (the poor horses, i cut them loose when I got the chance) I was able to gird my loins while it was tipped. What fantastic advice. Nowadays I tend to carry pins with me in case of this eventuality. Lovely trick with the hair pin as well
Interesting video. I'll have to remember this as it seems like something that might crop up in one of my writing projects. I can imagine one character insisting her date brings an extra belt with him in case she needs one to hitch up her dress.
These are great ideas, the thought of ripping a expensive and beautiful dress in a pinch is quite a bit saddening, I’ll definitely try these if I ever have need to do so
I think it's more cool when your wearing a long dresses or gown and your fighting and the fabric dancing through the air creating a dramatic fighting scene 🤦😂😂
I'm sure, if baddies are physically assaulting you, they'll at least have the decency to pause and wait for a minute until you have arranged you skirt for a proper fight!
I was at a dress up party with a girl named eri yesterday and some villains came in to attack us. I was able to tie up my dress and destroy the villains. So thank you for teaching me this
I could have used this advice last weekend when I was traversing the countryside and my carriage was attacked by mustachioed banditos looking to steal my collection of priceless Rubies. Normally I'd use my mastery of Kung Fu to shoo them away but they caught me in my best ball gown so I had no choice but to surrender my jewels. Well never again banditos! because I subscribe to Jill Bearup's youtube channel
Damn baddies always stealing other people's rubies...... T_T
This comment needs to be framed. Or embroidered. Or something. 💕
@@JillBearup Thank you, and my priceless collection of Jewels now better protected than ever thank you too.
@@JillBearup you could pin it
I am the frito bandito.
The enemy: "Ah yes, it would be impolite of me to attack whilst the madam has not properly girded her loins".
Well, just because they are your enemies doesn't mean they are without manners.
@ Sōsuke Aizen I’m sorry, I have to do this or I’ll go crazy, but I think you mean “madame.” A “madam” is a woman who controls prostitutes, while a “madame” is a proper lady.
@@geererdway I mean, either or works in this context.
@@sosukeaizen7028 I-eh. You're right....
*Has existentialist crisis*
I mean, a lady could probably find somewhere to hide for a few moments while she girds her loins.
I would LOVE to see a movie wherein a "gentleman ruffian" lends a lady his tie so that she could spar with him properly. Why raid a society ball if not to make it fun for everyone?
I would totally watch that. 😁
the man in the back said everyone attack and it turned into a ball room blitz
@@hardwirecars ugh now I have to go listen to the song again. Dang earworm.
Ha, that's very Inigo helping Westley up the cliff.
Andrew Klang I now have a new idea for dnd. Thank you my good sir
Now I want my heroins in shows to tie their dresses instead of ripping them. Such a waste of good clothes. Especially in medieval settings
*cloth rips*
😤
“Do you know how expensive silk is in this century? Do you?” *chases ruffian with poker*
Yes really it hurt when they did that- like yknow how pretty some dresses are
I have always hated them for tearing and throwing away their clothes and wasting the fabric
Not to mention that a good period linen or wool does NOT tear with any ease. My first time buying long-strand linen I learned that unlike cotton, you can’t make a little snick on the selvedge and rip across for the length you want. No. You have to cut it all the way across.
I don't wanna be that guy, but it's heroines, not heroins.
While the ripping fabric method looks distinctly badass, the tuck in method means your gown can be used again provided you do not get too much of the blood of your enemies on it.
Always an advantage, I find. And blood will come out if you rinse it and soak it in cold salted water on it quickly enough after dispatching baddies.
@@JillBearup if the dress isn't made out of protein based fabric (not silk nor wool), but for instance cotton, then gall soap (time period appropriate) can help remove stains that have partially set as gall soap eats through protein stains. Gall soap is also great against grease stains. Don't wash with gall soap using bare hands unless you want to have your skin partially dissolved, because collagen is a protein that bile happily muches through.
Show them your dominance by protecting your dress: i don't know what's more badass than showing you know you will survive and that your only concern is not ruining your dress after being attacked
That red dress ... used to be white.
@@ConsciousAtoms reminds me of the lyrics to a murdering song (Birthday Massacre - "Happy Birthday"):
"I wore my black and white dress to the Birthday massacre
[...]
Then we wished them all a happy birthday
We kissed them all goodnight. Now he chases me to my room,
Chases me to my room, chases me
In my black and red dress"
I got a good laugh out of imagining a group of henchman appearing and go: "Prepare to die" and the heroine holds up her hand and is like: "Okay, give me a few minutes" and begins to tie up her dress, while the henchman are too dumbfounded to know how to deal with it. :D
It has always been my presumption that baddies that are let in to formal events would to be utterly flustered at the sight of a lady's ankles...
@@KitagumaIgen *presents ankle * baddie gentlemen: faint
@@mikanchan322 Oh I was going to comment this and now it looks like I don't have to XD
Yeah, all baddies are gentlemen. They will give you all the time in the world to prepare yourself and only attack you when you give them the go-ahead.
“hold on...could i, mayhaps, borrow your tie?”
Note to self: If a man finds thyself confronted by a maiden of fire wrapping her dress and sleeves, tis the word of the wise to nimbly and with great haste, run o'er yonder to avoid catching ye olde fade.
You sire have taken words out of my mouth.
I love this
Hahahaha,
😂😂😂😂
Fighting in a dress: something we all know is logically rather impractical but sounds oh so damn cool.
I tried it ended up with a not so well eyebrow on the right side of my head
Women in dress: brb gonna tie up my dress and take off my heels so i can use that as pointy weapon to stab opponents
Ikr, girls fighting with a fucking long dress seems so cool but unfortunately is kinda unrealistic
Okay but that black velvet gown though 😍
It was from NerdQuest 😁
Beautiful
i know right it was gorgeous
You miss the whole point of video. It suppose to be dope, not fashionary.
@@eminkilicaslan8945 dude it's chill, they just like the gown
New idea for a DnD character.
High born woman who attends fancy balls as a secret bodyguard for the ritch. Thinking some kind of Monk Rogue combo
ShotokanWarriorPete what’s the ritch?
I will 100% be using this for a character! the bodyguard part only if I can work it into the story, but I think this would work great for a rogue!
@@Ishasgirl My DM recently gifted me a gnome made 'auto girder'. Pull the strap and the dress girds itself lol
My Noble-Born Monk/Druid has had to fight during several fancy parties. They're among my favorite scenes in the campaign.
You could also give the dress some fairly big pockets for hiding small weapons and stolen artifacts
The loins-girding is well explained, but if wuxia's taught me anything, it's that having long flowing sleeves that swoosh around while you swordfight only increases your combat ability.
The key there is to weight the ends of the long flowing sleeves so they whip better.
Even better: fight with your sleeves! Turn them into weapons!
@@reithehunter 1/2 of the reason I always wear my hair in either one or two plaits
Takes notes for research purposes. This will be PERFECT for my novels!
Name?
Omg I thought of the exact same thing
Me too😂😂
@@umekalsoomnadeem1350 same
Same
I'd love to see that in a movie! Female character punches or kicks a man in his privates, rips his belt off, says: "One second" and ties up her dress with it then proceeds to kick his ass along with many others.
Extra points for if they take the belt off, fix their dress and then rejoin the party or whatever they're at as if nothing happened.
Sounds like something that might happen in Doctor Who especially with the female Doctor but Chris Chibnall sucks
Damn, I was sitting in my house the other day when I group of ninjas broke in to steal my prized anime action figure collection. I was OBVIOUSLY in my man-dress at the time so I couldn't fight to my full potential. I had my fedora and katana with me luckily, so I was able to reach 70% of my maximum power... I only needed 3. But unfortunately while I was taking care of the 20 ninjas in my living room, another had broken in and stolen my Hatsune Miku body pillow and My Little Pony figures. The dress got in my way as I tried to chase them down... and they escaped. If only I had known then what I do now. Thank you Jill Bearup, with your help I will have my revenge, and I WILL save my waifu!
A note on the hairpin: I have genuinely used one to defend myself once when I was walking back late at night from an event. Very, very useful to have on hand.
That wouldn't work with short hair, though
My Great Granny Always used a hat/long hair pin for just such purposes.
Can I ask what happened?
@@lucybronkema6486 that's what I just thought. So... looking at pins/brooches. Surely there must be something! ;-)
@@thekingsdaughter4233 rings will small blades attached. Actually a thing in our modern setting that could be placed into fantasy.
The nappy might also be used as weak armor or padding if one is attacked.
This was both informative and very funny. Great job.
Pay no attention. There are rude people everywhere, and every great video has some comment about how it sucks.
Girding one's loins for unexpectedly martial situations in formal wear seems like a worthwhile Channel and itself. Also, thank you for suggesting the ability to keep accessories which double as weapons as a justification for longer hair.
My rule of thumb with clothes is that if I can't comfortably kick someone in the face, then I don't want to wear those clothes. Hence why you'll never catch me wearing skinny jeans.
Yup! Jeggings and hiking trousers all the way.
Terry Bogard wears the skinniest of skinny jeans and hed like to have a word with you
My cousins better be ready to catch these hands on the day of my Quinceañera
I feel like this should be in movies, the heroine doesn’t have time for a wardrobe change so she quickly does her best to tie up her gown while dodging or deflecting oncoming baddies until she is combat ready, could be an interesting fight sequence and doing something like this isn’t that common so it would be cool to see this incorporated
Jill: "I hope you've enjoyed this video"
Me, who very much enjoyed this video: "Yes, I've very much enjoyed this video"
Thank you, normally I would've just pull my gown over my head like a flower that has not bloomed. But now I will be able to defend myself, I will be finally able to fight the bandits that keep stealing my bread. I don't know why they steal bread, but I guess they're just carb hoggers.
But if my Chinese mythology has taught we anything, the longer the sleeves and “dress”, the better you get at martial arts...
They also increase your ability to jump gracefully across the battle field with a sword
Watch videos about martial arts then
The other way around: The better you are, the more inconvenient but stylish clothing you can handle
“I hope you enjoyed this video” oh I did, dear Jill. One minute and thirty seconds of to-the-point, useful information I have taken directly to heart. You have taught me skills I shall pass onto my daughters and ladies in waiting.
This is amazing advice! But I do have one question, what if you are forced to fight while wearing a gown involving a hoop skirt that cannot be easily removed. Just a few centuries ago I was in this situation in France. I was staying with a cousin and during a masked ball the chateau was stormed by angry peasants and there was virtually nothing I could do due to the large pannier (oval hoop skirt) I was wearing...never again did I return to France.
I think that was me. And stay out, you petty bourgeoisie!
Make up a way to snap the hoop and straighten it into a staff. Omg I'm actually really proud of that it would be so badass.
@@mossripalextechno6450 Y E S! I love that
At such times the primary question becomes one of whether it's more embarrassing to spill the beans on victoria's secret or to get one's ass kicked by a now rather chilly and but considerably more lethal damsel. Provided you're of sufficient martial abilities it's more likely to be the latter, as anyone who would make light of your sartorial disadvantage would be having their attitude adjusted by a rather thorough session of retrophrenology.
I was today years old when I learnt what loin girding was.
I will keep this information since I'm wearing a form of big loose dress whenever I'm going out. Will try to look up for belts or maybe my hijab can be a substitute for belt for the meantime lol
Welp, my 40th Birthday Celebrations have so far not been invaded by untowardity, Though I can't be entirely certain that this will remain the case. Still, I'll keep a weather eye.
“Untowardity” is brilliant. 👍
👗🤼♀️
A la _GI Joe_ :
"Now we know!"
"And *knowing* is half the battle."👍🏿
Hmm, could have used that a month ago. Could have gone as society lady impromptu prepared to fight baddies for Halloween.
There’s always next year 😁
I really need to see this in a real scene in an action movie.
me, a girl, who hates wearing dresses/gowns : 🗒✍🏼👁👄👁👌🏼 “just in case” **saves video to playlist**
No one:
Anime girls' dresses will eventually get ripped because of the fight until it so short or they will ripped the skirt to make it shorter.
And make it sexual. Because aparently nothing related to females in anime can’t be sexualized.
@@Trebinhas ikr. I don't like hoes. The more mysterious the better.
Fr tho, the amount of sexualizations are annoying!
Visions of Gal Gadot spring to mind for some reason.
I think you should consider taking up shurikenjutsu.
That is, as I am sure you've guessed, the practice of throwing shuriken.
Shuriken are thrown weapons of two definite types, "Hira-shuriken" (wheel shuriken) multibladed weapons which spin end over in flight and "bo-shuriken" or (stick shuriken). Everyone and his mother knows about hira-shuriken, the "ninja stars" that you can find in souvenir shops in every Chinatown. Bo-shuriken are far less commonly known and have a number of advantages many of which derive from the technique of throwing them being essentially a metal rod with a point at one end, bo-shuriken are easy to make, easy to carry (a long hair ornament with a point at one end or even a large and heavy nail would make a very good one) and, being as it were, non-bladed weapons, they only become illegal to carry in the moment that you use one as a weapon.
The technique of throwing them is simple to understand, and, unlike the kind of knife-throwing that circuses have made famous, they generally don't require less on-the-fly distance calculation for your weapon to hit point-first because the throw is a matter of causing the weapon to make only a half-turn over the course of its flight.
Best of all, throwing bo-shuriken makes anything with a point at one end that is light enough to lift and be thrown into a "field expedient weapon." That includes everything from a Swiss army knife or a leatherman tool, to a butterknife, or even a steel knitting needle or an open pair of scissors.
Until fairly recently, the art of Shurikenjutsu has been relatively obscure but this has changed a lot over the last decade, in part, as a result of the rise of interest in "no-spin" knife-throwing. Stranger still, the Meifu Shinkage Ryu school's Soke (head of the school and possessor of the style) has gone to great lengths over the years to promote his school's style by traveling all over the world licensing teachers in the technique to spread his school's knowledge.
Here is a link to information on Meifu Shinkage Ryu. If you try it, happy throwing.
czcams.com/video/vp0ULzeeAnc/video.html
okay but what if im wearing lots of pretty petticoats?
as an hypotetical question of course
Bigger nappy?
I guess the only option then is to look awesome when dealing with baddies...hypotetically.
Then it is harder to see if you are about to kick them.
Got baddies?
ENGAGE NAPPIES!
Love it 😂😂😂
As someone who always had to wear long flowing clothes, the best way to always be ready to fight is to have slits which are hidden. These slots are basically overlapped by layers of the cloth or secured by clip buttons so normally they’re fully covered but when necessary, they can be frayed open. In my personal experience, I’ve never had to gather the loose fabric or tie them up as long as I knew how they’d move when I made a move, but this usually comes with experience, so it’ll take practise if that’s what you want to go with. Plus, if you can, Always add pockets to your dress designs even if they’re from older sewing patterns which usually don’t have pockets, add large, concealed poachers to carry daggers ✨✨✨
I always knew this will come in handy
“You can borrow a tie from a gentlemen, friend or *enemy*” yes the enemy will help you XD
I Always wanted to know that! 🙂Appreciate it ! Never knew what it meant in the Bible
And as kid I never liked wearing dresses cause I couldn't play outside in them And I knew that you couldn't fight in them or run in them !
This is deeply useful.
My solution is to opt towards dresses with slits, or at least slits on the outer/inner skirt in which case the other layer can be quickly and neatly removed
1:08 nah, I have watch a lot of chinese martial art film, those can be use as weapon to confused the enemy and hide weapons.
This was a great, amusing video that I really needed today. Thank you.
You're welcome :)
I have been postulating how a dress could modified to have the skirt hiked up for battle, (or crossing streams etc) in a way that you could do it with minimum effort and assistance. This video gave me some great ideas, including having a long ribbon sewn inside the skirt and connected to the skirt by a series of loops (think belt loops). You could then grab the hem of the skirt, find the ribbon, pull it up and tie it to a matching (and decorative) ribbon at the waist. This would hike the skirt to whatever height was needed, (within modesty) without looking like you are wearing a nappie and could then easily be let down after you are done battling off the non- handsome rogues and have no indication that you were fighting anyone, except for some wrinkles, (and possibly some blood stains.)
Found my aesthetic :D
I love this, because we used to do this to our school skirts in the summer... they made us wear ankle length, thick skirts all year round and the Australian summer was not great for that, so we basically used the "make a nappy" technique all the time haha
This is improper for a lady, what if the ruffians see thy ankles?
Then they may not live to tell the tale, my dear fellow!
@@mossripalextechno6450 that’s part of the motivation to win the fight, so that none who see a lady’s ankles may live to tell the tale
Needs must attend when sparring with baddies
Kick him in the fork while he's staring at your ankles!
As someone who writes a lot of fight scenes, this is super helpful. Thanks 💛🙏
I like that you made this video in the garden as a warning (I presume) to your neighbours that you CANNOT be caught off-guard.
Of course, this implies they are willing to give you the time to do all that stuff. Just wear a sword with your formal attire (or gun in a stylish ankle or thigh holster). I wouldn't say anything. Frankly, if I saw a girl wearing a sword or dagger with a formal dress, I would figure I just found the right girl for me.
The baddies are gentlemen and will
Wait for you to finish.
Hm, you know, if you're the kind of woman who could expect to fight at any given time, I wouldn't think it would be so hard to discreetly modify gowns to cinch/snap/tie/wrap/etc at a moment's notice.
then the cycling victorian skirts should be the best option then, I found a lot of patterns about them, sadly I don't have the fabric to make any of those
@@Bane_Amesta I don't know what "cicying" is! When I googled it, it thought I was going for "cycling".
Hoop skirts that you can pull the hoops out of and turn then into staffs.
@@ogrejehosephatt37 oh no, the keyboard trolled me again :'(
For real though, the hair accessory/pencil to keep hair up is a tool for every night travel. Since learning a sharp pencil can do much harm, I have felt very safe travelling at night through the park.
Love the vid ♥️
Me: * doesn't wear dresses or go to fancy gatherings *
Also me: *I need to remember this next time I wear a dress at a fancy gathering*
Lol, mine would be: *doesn't go to fancy gatherings*, but still with the same "Also me".
Thank you, CZcams algorithm, for finally showing me the kind of content I actually want to see!!!!!!!
Also, that weird dress????? Gorgeous
Omg, it was "that WHITE dress", not weird!!!
Where has this video all my life?! This would've been really helpful 3 years ago.
Another note: thinner dresses, like the kind you might wear in day to day life, the ones that don’t have any poof to them besides how the skirt already hangs, most of those dresses will actually let you tuck the skirt into the top of the dress by rolling it in. Grab from the part of the skirt closest to where the top begins, and tuck in it (shove your fingers up there, but not your hand) keep doing this until have about a thick donut around the entirety of your waist then roll the doughnut until you can’t see any wrinkles, which wrinkles make the skirt fall easier. I used this exact technique in a dance that I choreographed and preformed in, the dance was 2 minutes long, and we let our skirts down halfway through the dance, and in that half before we let the skirts down, there were Ariel’s and floor work. They still were up.
This appearing in my recommend page is the best thing that had happened to me for the entire day
Essential tips!
As a woman who hates having to change before going to duels and even just defending myself, I thank thee greatly for this. -Esmeray, Daughter of Jeykll and Hyde
Those are some gorgeous dresses
Borrow a tie from a gentelman friend... or baddie.
Because that is definitely the first thing you would do when your attaked.
Can I have a tie please?
Who says he handed it over willingly?
@@pyropegasus3484 Ah!
Normally, I watch 3 videos by the same uploader. And, usually, If I like all 3, then, I subscribe. Rarerly, do I subscribe after watching just 1 video. This is one of those videos. I have been impressed and look forward to more with high expectations.
It's not like I am gonna wear a gown and go anywhere or that I know how to fight but thanks
I enjoyed the acting - the facial expression - while wrapping sleeves. It reinforced the parallel with with rolling up one's sleeves.
It was time for difficult business.
The robbers be like when she’s getting ready: 👁👄👁
Me at my wedding
*Enemy attacks
Me : wait 5 mins
*Sets Dress
Me : COME ON BISH FIGHT ME
*Runs
I quite like the intricacy of this method, but in my past of kung fu sword fighting I've found unsheathing you hidden dagger and tearing the gown's skirt and sleeves is appropriately intimidating and time efficient.
This information shall be of great use to me as my dearest friend and acquaintance, Gertrude, Lady of Whattingham was recently surprise attacked by a large group full of ungentlemanly gentlemen while she was in her carriage. She was wearing her wine red ball gown which she had worn previously to the great ball that was being held at the chateau that was owned by none other than Sir William of Barthansworth. She was in a perilous situation and was being robbed of her small collection of riches that she happened to be carrying that day as she was travelling to the Jaminraham market for the evening. She was unable to combat these foes as, like I said, she was wearing her elegant dress that was coloured red, she threw her small fortune off of her carriage to make the rude gentlemen jump away and steal hem, it is such a shame as Gertrude was unable to even reach Jaminraham to be able to purchase anything, thank you very much for this information and I shall use it if I am even in a situation like Gertrude was.
This was a fun video and I loved the tip for wrapping long sleeves and will be applying it in the future when washing my hands or wearing a coat. Thanks! :)
These types of videos suddenly popped in my recommendation, and I'm here for it
I don’t know if I ever commented on this but it came up again recently for me. I bought a dress to try this for writing research. I couldn’t get mine to tie. But I see you met similar experiences.
This is only my second video and I am already obsessed
This is surprisingly useful, I write fanfiction with female fighting characters and I have a bachelor party coming up where many will be in dresses but will end up in a fight.
The phrase "gird(?) your loins" in the Devil wears Prada became clear to me. Thanks.
I just discovered this channel and you're pretty cool... I'll hang around for a while
Truly, you are never too prepare to fight for your life at a social event, thus it is with quite delight I shall subscribe. For all of those baddies out there that may be willing to lend out a tie, bless you.
This is lovely knowledge.
I have no idea why this is in my recommendations, but i found a new thing to binge.
Oh how lovely, although oftentimes my sleeves come undone from all the movement despite being rolled up. I remember a while ago when my carrige was attacked. It was flipped on it's side (the poor horses, i cut them loose when I got the chance) I was able to gird my loins while it was tipped. What fantastic advice. Nowadays I tend to carry pins with me in case of this eventuality. Lovely trick with the hair pin as well
Interesting video.
I'll have to remember this as it seems like something that might crop up in one of my writing projects. I can imagine one character insisting her date brings an extra belt with him in case she needs one to hitch up her dress.
I like it 😁
this also makes a belt not just a fashionable accessory, but a useful one!
I am not sure how I found this channel but I love it
I NEED that black velvet one!! So pretty!
These are great ideas, the thought of ripping a expensive and beautiful dress in a pinch is quite a bit saddening, I’ll definitely try these if I ever have need to do so
not the content we deserved but the content we need right now
Just noting that I've used this technique twice since coming across this video. Worked for me.
Too cute!
I discovered your channel a week or so ago and I'm thoroughly enjoying catching up on ALL the videos!
This is a kind of channel I feel like Joana Ceddia would watch and take notes on
Didn't know "gird your loins" had an actual practical application.
Thank god for pants.
OMG is this whole channel like this? This is awesome!
Not what I was searching for but definitely useful
I think it's more cool when your wearing a long dresses or gown and your fighting and the fabric dancing through the air creating a dramatic fighting scene 🤦😂😂
Medieval version of: here, hold my hoops
When your date at your school prom is dancing with another girl, and you must duel with the girl in order to win your man back
That would make for an interesting scenerio to gird ones loins...
I'm sure, if baddies are physically assaulting you, they'll at least have the decency to pause and wait for a minute until you have arranged you skirt for a proper fight!
Its not that i need this or search for this...... but the content intrigues me
I was at a dress up party with a girl named eri yesterday and some villains came in to attack us. I was able to tie up my dress and destroy the villains. So thank you for teaching me this
Found out bout this channel today. Has been watching her videos for 3 hours