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LadyHugs -> RE: Crops...? (11/8/2006 10:50:37 AM)
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Dear ByteMe714, Ladies and Gentlemen;
I am familiar with Wonder Whip products, sold by State Line Tack.
It is a product brand "Wonder Whip," much like GM, Ford, Rolls Royce, etc.
Being an Equestrian, in the horse world; terms for crop is a given length rather than for a cracker. The "bat" is usually for children so it is the shortest of whips. The crop is mid-length, to where the rider's hand falls, it can reach to the rider's heel, supporting the rider's aids and to the start to mid part of the horse's hip but no further. The whip is longer where the shaft has longer length but not as long as a dressage whip. Whip extends from horse's ears to the mid-hip area and sometimes to the edge of the back point of the hip. The dressage whip, often is a few inches longer and has a cap on the top of the handle, as to slide in a rider's hands, it is a lot thinner than the crops and riding whips, to which reaches to the hocks of a horse, as to aid in driving the back legs under, as to execute the passage, the trot in place and the piaffe. It is just shy of the length for a cart whip (Driving whip).
So, tack shops usually will go by the vocabulary that applies to equestrians.
In the BDSM world, the crop is usually to mean where a flap of leather is at the end of the whip, a design of leather, such as a hand, a butterfly or a horse head or something similar. A whip would be of any length to have a cracker/popper on the end.
Respectfully submitted for consideration,
Lady Hugs
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