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Miniskirt. A miniskirt (sometimes hyphenated as mini-skirt, separated as mini skirt, or sometimes shortened to simply mini) is a skirt with its hemline well above the knees, generally at mid-thigh level, normally no longer than 10 cm (4 in) below the buttocks; [ 1] and a dress with such a hemline is called a minidress or a miniskirt dress. A ...
Rah-rah skirt. A woman wearing a rah-rah skirt in the United Kingdom. The rah-rah (or ra-ra) skirt is a short flounced layered skirt that originated in cheerleading and became a popular fashion trend among teenage girls in the early 1980s. As such it marked, as the Oxford Dictionary noted, the first successful attempt to revive the miniskirt ...
Flapper. Flappers were a subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for prevailing codes of decent behavior.
A skirt cut in sections to make one or more circles with a hole for the waist, so the skirt is very full but hangs smoothly from the waist without darts, pleats, or gathers. Culottes. A form of divided skirt, split skirt, or pantskirt constructed like a pair of shorts, but hanging like a skirt. [ 22] Divided skirt.
Melanie Griffith just got on board with the sheer dress trend. The 58-year-old actress defied age on Wednesday night when she hit an event in Los Angeles wearing a sheer dress without a bra. The ...
Girls, all wearing black dresses shorter and tighter than the band in a Robert Palmer video, were dancing to Beyonce. I can appreciate sexy legs as much as anyone, so for a few seconds it was hard ...
Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818 – December 30, 1894) was an American newspaper editor, women's rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women's clothing reform style known as bloomers, her name became associated with it because of her early and strong advocacy. In her work with The Lily, she became the first woman ...
More than 100 boys at a Canadian high school donned plaid skirts to protest toxic masculinity and dress code double standards, as part of a movement that’s sweeping schools in Montreal. The ...