On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:19:07 -0500, "Volfie"
wrote:

It's a guy. It'll never happen.

So he can leave the safety pin in the elastic.
My mother wore safety-pinned garters for decades.
(I always sew mine -- but I don't have four kids,
a garden, and a henhouse.)

She used the very smallest safety pins, so as not to make
lumps. She also used quarter-inch elastic (which I also
find adequate for everything but my pull-on bras) -- the
kind of elastic you put into men's shorts would probably
require two or three little safety pins.

Joy Beeson
--
http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ -- needlework
http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson59...HSEW/ROUGH.HTM
http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ -- Writers' Exchange
joy beeson at earthlink dot net