Here are some miniskirts from when I was a child in the 60’s. I’m seeing skirts kinda-sorta this lenth on a growing number of young professional women lately. Almost all of whom are young and in quite good shape.
Is the mini skirt back?
God I hope so!
Back? Did they ever leave?
Cool pictures.
I was not aware they had ever left. I’m 26 and have been wearing short skirts since I was 18 and moved out of my mom’s house. And most younger women I know wear them regularly, even to the office.
Didn’t think they left. We just hoped that some wearers realized the errors of their ways.
You are 18-30. You have legs up to ye. Minis work. Hell, stretch that to 60. They still rock.
I think this summer the trend has been more towards longer skirts. At least, that’s what I’ve noticed in Seoul.
I hate wearing miniskirts. You have so many stairs to climb in Seoul (especially if you use the subway) and I don’t want to have to worry about someone seeing my undies. I much prefer shorts.
I’ve been noticing a lot more women wearing shorts this summer than I have in past years. Is this just because this summer has been unseasonably hot or is it a fashion thing?
Super short “boyshorts” are the in thing these days, and if you have the rear end and legs for them they are super sexy. The little college baristas at my favorite coffee joint wear them all the time. They do require a slenderish figure to work. If you have a womanly figure with prominent hips or rear end they are really not going to work all that well.
I’ve noticed the opposite, that long summer skirts and dresses are back. Maybe it’s different down under.
“The year was 1968. We were on recon in a steaming Mekong delta. An overheated private removed his flack jacket, revealing a T-shirt with an ironed-on sporting the MAD slogan “Up with Mini-skirts!”. Well, we all had a good laugh, even though I didn’t quite understand it.”
I’m just gonna leave this Youtube clip here. Quite possibly the only good thing to come out of Fox News.
Thanks, astro. You at least know that photos are a most important adjunct to a rational discussion here on the Dope.
Last miniskirt I saw was on a young woman who was also wearing a hijab. It’s a funny old world.
I live in a college town so there’s no shortage of young women around.
Sorry. But I think I’d get a bad reputation if I started wandering up and down the streets snapping pictures to post online.
I, too, remember the sixties, and the mini-skirts. It seemed like they got longer in the late seventies, but after that they got short again. I teach junior high and they’ve been at least that short for 15 years or so.
In the U.K. they definitely are in warm weather.
Miniskirts are cool as long as denim skirts are never a thing again.
Are you kidding me? I’ve been getting annoyed with my favorite clothing stores because the skirts and dresses there are either teeny-tiny minis or floor-length maxis (and don’t even get me started on that name…why the hell would you have an item of clothing that has the same name as a feminine hygiene product?). I hate long skirts because I’ve got long legs and want to show them off, and I hate minis because I want to be able to move like a normal person. A better question would be “what the hell happened to knee-length skirts?”
Wow, I, um…didn’t actually intend to rant there. I guess my short answer to the OP’s question would be “they never left, much to my chagrin.”
Could you see her hair? No? She was fully clothed.
An orthodox Jewish woman started at work. A friend who was somewhat less orthodox feared she might steal her husband, who worked in IT, because of her covering-everything sexy ways, so she started covering her hair. I asked her why.
“Because the merest glimpse of my hair might cause you to leave your wife.”
“Except the short skirts and falling-out-of-it blouses you’ve worn all the time I’ve known you didn’t do it.”
I may never understand Middle-Eastern people.
The bit of fashion stuff I’ve seen lately seems to lean toward tea-length. That’s not surprising because usually when the economy drops, so do the hemlines. But nowadays I think anything goes, just whatever you’re in the mood for.