balkan aprons

Last night in rehearsal, our fearless leader of the Balkan Ensemble said the women would only have to wear Bulgarian apron-type things if she was strong-armed into it. I mentioned this to someone who shall go unnamed, and he suggested that many Balkan women are probably about as tall as they are wide. I corrected him and said, "Well, I saw the Bulgarian Women's Choir when I was in college, and there were quite a few who were quite petite and small."

My friend said that surely,the smaller and younger women came by way of the older, larger women being opened up and discarded. He said that in Eastern Europe, there must be empty, wooden halves of women strewn about the fields where cows must sniff at them.