hula skirt

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hula skirt

(Clothing & Fashion) a skirt made of long grass attached to a waistband and worn by hula dancers

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hula skirt

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Gang Shows have come a long way since I was a Cub and had to dance to Boney M while wearing a hula skirt.

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Though I'd grown up in a Reform household, I found myself exploring an Orthodox lifestyle, wearing a kippah and sporting the longest, thickest tzitzit I could findthey dangled from my belt to my knees, like a sparse hula skirt. At the yeshiva where I was studying, we learned the talmudic story of Kamza and Bar Kamza, wherein two neighbors whose rigid ways of seeing the world leads to disaster at a party: a misunderstanding leads to public humiliation.

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"It looks like they're wearing a hula skirt, and they use the skirt to propel themselves," Moeller said.

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He drew his inspiration from the coco bra and hula skirt which are iconic images of hula dancing and party wear in Hawaiian luaus.

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WOMEN are being urged to step into a hula skirt for a fun night while raising money for a vital charity.

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After choosing a flower necklace, or lei, and a hula skirt of leaves, (along with the required water and sunscreen), Millie begins her hula song and dance on the beach of Hawaii to make her dream come true.

Millie the Octopus Learns to Hula Dance

"The invitation sounded great - but wearing a hula hula skirt in a size 20 wasn't so appealing," she said.

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Have you ever put your sight pin on a target or deer and observed more movement than you would see in the hula skirt of a Hawaiian dancer?

Improve your sight picture

Robyn found a metal chest in her new home with medieval torture implements, a plague mask and a coconut bra and hula skirt.

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I also sent the head of a hammer through the window and got caught sneaking out to get tickets for Guy Mitchell's concert (She Wears Red Feathers and a Hula Hula Skirt).

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Q Do you attract mainly fun-loving students or do you get any straightlaced businessmen looking for a hula skirt or pink wig?

CONFESSIONS OF... a fancy dress fanatic; Claude Lewis, from Roath, Cardiff, is the self-proclaimed Mr Fancy Dress who has been dressing the city in costume for the last five years from his shop I Claudius in Castle Arcade. He's also recently taken over The Joke Shop in High Street Arcade. He spoke to Hannah Perry

Michele Brown, president and chief executive officer of United Way of Anchorage, said Bowles served at the forefront of charity efforts and even went so far as to don a Donald Trump wig, a muscleman costume and even a hula skirt at events, to raise morale and money for the United Way's charitable endeavors.