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- - - - were made out of cotton
      - showed off both hips and legs.
    - - with the Egyptians who spread the shendit,
        
        initially created as a purely male garment
        
        a short skirt wrapped around the hips and initially created as a purely male garment.
- - - - made from expensive silk or more practical lisle or wool
    - - was widely adopted in the 1930s and was very effective with the longer skirts
        
        creating a figure-hugging style which then flared out at the hemline
  - - - However, his skirts were restrictive
      - His hobble skirt, in which the material was very narrow at the ankle, was particularly aptly named
      - Working women tended to wear a blouse and skirt
        
        Shorter skirts also appeared by 1915
  - - - made it possible to manufacture skirts more quickly and less expensively
        
        Permanent pleating, colour-fast dyes, crease resistance, preshrinking
    - - was a return to femininity
        
        long, full skirt with a bouffant ruffled petticoat beneath
        
        a slender waist
        
        sloping shoulders
- - - - women were gaining a self-conscious awareness
      - Youngsters felt they no longer needed to follow the rules of bourgeois morality and manners
        
        The shortened garment emerged in the 1960s as a symbol of rebellious youth culture
  - - - The miniskirt would express, and serve as a tool for, this growing woman’s movement
        
        Upstart designers and boutiques began to cater to a new youth market
        
        The Feminine Mystique was published in 1963, inspiring women to define their own professional roles and to gain income equivalent to that of their male co-workers
        
        Note how the picture depicts a miniskirt wearing woman to stand as tall as sky high buildings, as if she were a glamazon slamming her feet onto the streets and metaphorically speaking, taking giant leaps as her masculine-matching role in society grew
        
        Youth styles of the early ’60s were dramatically different when compared to that of the mid and later ’60s
        
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    - - older women who began to scramble to look like their daughters
- - - - tight corsets with long, restrictive skirts generally reflected these beliefs
- - - - launched her 'London Look' for youth culture emerging in the capital
        
        created unique deigns for teenage market
        
        including micro mini
        
        style was soon popularised and became mass produced
- - - - Experimented with shorter hemlines, exposing the midriff and bralessness began in the early ’60s
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    - - showcased his futuristic, space-age minimalistic dresses which scandalously fell above the knee
        
        helped make the miniskirt acceptable to French haute couture
        
        design his skirts with more sophistication and maturity
- - - - the development of terms such as “dolly birds” tended to objectify women
        
        feminists realized that the miniskirt had great potential to be more exploitive than liberating
        
        With the feminist movement in full swing by the early 1970s, minis fell into disfavor.
  - - - Goldie Hawn’s “Laugh In” debuted on TV, inspiring girls around the U.S. to don miniskirts and minidresses copying her signature mod style
        
        in 1968, Jackie Kennedy wore a short white pleated Valentino dress when she married Aristotle Onassis
    - - disillusionment about Vietnam became more widespread
      - the future looked less positive
- - - - mini was also now often worn with ripped fishnet tights
        
        to look on a slightly “trashy” overtone
        
        that reflected the “whatever” attitude
  - - - the mini was reincarnated in black leather and PVC in every fashion store
      - McLaren launched the ‘Sex Pistols‘ Punk music group
        
        The punk group wore clothes from a shop called ‘Sex‘ that Vivienne Westwood and her partner Malcolm McLaren opened on the Kings Road, London.
        
        credited with introducing “underwear as outerwear,” reviving the corset, and inventing the “mini-crini,”
- - - - in 1984 Madonna wowed the crowd at the MTV Video Music Awards
        
        in a white tulle minidress resembling a wedding dress
        
        in 1990s, Julia Roberts set a fashion trend wearing a shorter than short skirt and thigh high boots in “Pretty Woman.”
  - - - characters in TV sitcoms such as Carrie in Sex in the City helped the miniskirt appear sexy, and smart
  - - - Suggesting both empowerment and vulnerability, liberation and exploitation
        
        miniskirt was a controversial item of clothing shifting the dynamics and allowing women to take charge of their own sexualities
        
        Kate Moss at a fashion shoot in 1995 in New York City
    - - The Spice Girls at the Brit Awards 1995
- - - - in the Near East and Egypt
        
        attire for men was a fur skirt tied to a belt called Kaunakes
        
        originally referred to a sheep's fleece
        
        Kaunakes cloth also served as a symbol in religious iconography
        
        Sumerian men′s skirt (Kaunakes), ca. 3.000 BC
        
        Ancient Egyptian garments were mainly made of white linen
        
        Statue of Ramaat, an official from Gizeh wearing a pleated Egyptian kilt, ca. 2.250 BC
    - - An illustration from between 1325 and 1335 showing an English man in a skirted garment
  - - - he was featured in many articles at the time
      - said that men should wear skirts for both symbolic and practical reasons
    - - Introduced the skirt into his men's wear collections as a means of injecting novelty into male attire
        
        most famously the sarong seen on David Beckham.
        
        famous designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Giorgio Armani, John Galliano, Kenzo, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto also created men's skirts
        
        In the US Marc Jacobs became the most prominent supporter of the skirt for men
        
        The Milan men's fashion shows and the New York fashion shows frequently show skirts for men
        
        Axl Rose, was known to wear men's skirts during the Use Your Illusion period
        
        Robbie Williams and Martin Gore from Depeche Mode also performed on stage in skirts
        
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