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2. Pencil skirt - Wikipedia

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   Juliana Awada and Melania Trump in pencil skirts, 2017. Narrow-fitting skirts have a long history in Western fashion. The predecessor to the pencil skirt is the hobble skirt, a pre–World War I fad inspired by the Ballets Russes. This full-length skirt with a narrow hem seriously impeded walking.

3. Skirt - Wikipedia

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   A skirt with regular pleats ('plaits') or folds, which can be stitched flat to hip-level or free-hanging. Slit skirt/Split skirt: A skirt that has one or more slits (or splits). Pencil skirt or straight skirt: A tailored skirt hanging straight from the hips and fitted from the waist to the hips by means of darts or a yoke.

4. Clothing sizes - Wikipedia

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   Note: a Japanese dress marked 13-Y-PP or 13-Y-P would be designed for someone with an 89 cm bust and 89 cm hips, while a dress marked 13-B-T would be targeted at a taller individual with 105 cm hips, but the same 89 cm bust. The B fitting adds 12 cm and the T height modifier 4 cm to the base hip measurement 89 + 16 = 105 cm. [13] Additionally ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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.