[QUOTE=greywuuf;7168889]North Dakota is Colder because here in the interior of Alaska the wind does not blow.
Oh man, you're living in Heaven. We've had 40mph winds, seeming non-stop, for most of the week.
Tell her that Princesses must learn to embrace their corsets, bustles, panniers, petticoats, et al. Of course, I'm teasing and would never put 12-year-old in corsets, even if our foremothers considered them normal and necessary.
I was 30 before I was brave enough to be laced into a steel-boned corset. The result was stunning, but it was not worth the pain, the short breaths, the restricted...everything! Our dear Great-grandmothers did suffer in many ways.