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  2. File:Hemline (skirt height) overview chart 1805-2005.svg

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    On the left, hemline height is indicated as being at ankle length (or slightly above) at the chronological start date of 1805 (i.e. 200 years before the date the first version of this chart was made), then dropping to floor-length ca. 1835, where it stayed for most of the remainder of the 19th century (with a few temporary excursions back to ...

  3. Hemline - Wikipedia

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    Skirts rose all the way from floor-length to near knee-length in little more than fifteen years (from late in the decade of the 1900s to the mid-1920s). Between 1919 and 1923 they changed considerably, being almost to the floor in 1919, rising to the mid-calf in 1920, before dropping back to the ankles by 1923.

  4. Hemline index - Wikipedia

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    The hemline index is a theory that suggests that skirt length (hemlines) rise or fall along with stock prices. The most common version of the theory is that skirt lengths get shorter in good economic times (1920s, 1960s) [1] and longer in bad, such as after the 1929 Wall Street crash. However, the reverse has also been proposed with longer ...

  5. Miniskirt - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Knee highs - Wikipedia

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    There were also different types and uses of knee highs for women. [2] Knee highs became popular during the 1960s and 1970s, worn in regular knee high length or top of the knee length so they could be folded over at the top, with the increase in popularity of the mini dress and miniskirt. [citation needed] This style continued throughout the ...

  7. U.S. standard clothing size - Wikipedia

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    With the average American woman's height (20 years and older) at about 5 ft 4 in (162.1 cm) (Department of Health 2012), both standard and catalog size ranges attempt to address a variety of weights or builds as well as providing for the "shorter-than-average" height woman with "petite" and "half-sizes". However "taller-than-average" women may ...

  8. Tutu (clothing) - Wikipedia

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    The word tutu can refer to only the skirt part of the costume. The bodice and tutu make up what is usually the entire costume, but which is called the tutu (by synecdoche, wherein the part – the skirt – can embody the whole). The derivation of the word tutu is unknown. The word was not recorded anywhere until 1881.

  9. Overskirt - Wikipedia

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    Pano—An ankle-length transparent overskirt worn by both men and women in Egypt between 4,000 BC and 30 BC. [7] Pentes—The term originally applied to a bustle, but was applied in 1886 to a skirt made of pyramidal panels. An overskirt or tunic was worn over the skirt, [8] and draped to expose the underskirt. [9]

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