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Boarding a streetcar in a hobble skirt was difficult. In 1912, the New York Street Railway ran hobble-skirt cars with no step up. [4] Los Angeles introduced similar streetcars in 1913. [7] Hobble skirts were directly responsible for several deaths. [4] In 1910, a hobble-skirt-wearing woman was killed by a loose horse at a racetrack outside ...
Fender skirts remained a feature for some time longer on a few cars, particularly full-size American luxury cars. By the 1970s, fender skirts began to disappear from mass-market automobiles. Fender skirts were often paired with whitewall tires. The extent of the skirt also varied; before the 1950s, it was common for all but the very bottom of ...
Silk or rayon stockings were held up by garters. Skirts rose to just below the knee by 1927, allowing flashes of leg to be seen when a girl danced or walked through a breeze, although the way they danced made any long loose skirt flap up to show their legs. To enhance the view, some flappers applied rouge to their knees.
Fair warning, it almost hurts to look at this photo of a woman sitting on a subway that's going viral. Sitting with your legs nicely crossed is one thing, but this woman somehow managed to twist ...
Historically, car clubs (groups of people who share a love for custom cars and a passion for lowriding) have been predominantly led by men, with the exception of a few, such as Lady Bugs Car Club ...
Shirin Aliabadi is renowned for her photographic series Girls in Cars (2005), which depicted women riding around in cars, ready to party. Reflecting on this series in a 2013 article for Deutsche Bank, [ 2 ] where her works were exhibited, Aliabadi recounted being stuck in traffic in an upscale part of Tehran.
Professional tennis player Yaroslava Shvedova wearing safety shorts at a New York tennis match. One of the things that skirt-wearers do to avoid upskirts, particularly those who are prominently in public such as female athletes and celebrities as well as schoolgirls, is the wearing of "safety shorts" or simply shorts under their skirts to protect themselves from upskirting.
An 8-year-old Ohio girl took her mother's car and drove to Target 25 minutes away from her home as her family and police searched for her.