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Before the first baby boomers burst onto the scene in 1946, the U.S. toy and game industry occupied a tiny slice of the U.S. economy. Annual toy sales were about $84 million in 1940, according to...
The cars retailed for 69 to 89 cents when they launched; comparable models today sell for just $1.29. If they had kept pace with inflation, they’d cost about $6.24 in 2025.
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 that had been introduced in the mid-1960s. [ 1 ]
The 1988 Happy Holidays Barbie is worth an estimated $2,000. Other Barbies of that time, such as a 1980s Barbie and the Rockers doll aren’t worth quite as much, but could still score you around $75.
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.
Typical shoes for wearing with a pencil skirt are pumps, or high heels, with sheer stockings or tights. Back-seamed hosiery recalls the classic pencil-skirt era of the 1950s. Pencil skirts can also be worn with flats for a more casual, youthful appearance that echoes the 1960s. Pencil skirts and loafers are classic preppy wear. [citation needed]
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An abstract conceptual overview graph of changes in hemline heights (skirt lengths) in middle- and upper-class western women's clothes over two hundred years (1805-2005). The curve in this image is not based on exact numerical data, but instead presents a summary of broad general trends (i.e. the graph is more qualitative than quantitative, or ...