Also, Johanna isn’t wrong because “top of knee length” is still knee length. Your knees are about 3 inches long, so hemlines can fall right at the top, in the middle, and at the bottom of the knee, and all are considered “knee length”.
If that’s the official definition of “knee length” then I stand corrected. I assumed that any hemline that exposed the whole knee would be considered “above the knee”.
Regardless, in the movie she is wearing a by-God miniskirt - these dresses are way too long.
Which characters are we talking about? I don’t think you can really count the stripper and the super-villainess (in their “work” uniforms). I think that leaves (human form) Mystique and Agent MacTaggart. Mystique might have been going for the school girl look, but MacTaggart might have had a hard time passing muster with Alan Dulles.
BTW, I never said that the clothes worn in the movie are accurate for the era. My link was intended to refute that fashions were knee-length or lower. My bad if a fully exposed knee is still considered knee legth.
Depends on where you live, maybe? I graduated in 1963. Skirts were at the knee (or not far from it either way) and long hair (on girls or boys) hadn’t made it to Iowa. If a girl had long hair, it was styled, not straight. I did see a peasant blouse once but it was part of a gypsy costume at a Halloween party.
But it always took years for fashion to make it to the middle of the country.
I noticed the mini on McTaggart (thanks for the name).
And you had me so going until the second sentence deflated the thought…
The test for the all girls Catholic school that was our sister school in 1970 was that the skirts could not be above your fingertips when you held your arms down straight. But that was 1970. Mores changed pretty quickly, though!
Originally Posted by Susanann
You are absolutely correct. In 1962 skirts were a good few/several inches below the knee or at the calf.Kneelength skirts and shorter came after 1965. By the very early 1970s micromini skirts were common on the young.
Huh???
First, you said what I said is not how it was… and then… you admit how correct I am and say the very same thing that I said.
eew.
They did. This was the Christian girls’ high school I took classes at, pic dated 1972, the year before I got there. That’s a clergyman they’re palling around with.
You are correct.
Wait, this movie was set in the 1960s? I mean, one guy was in a turtleneck. but that’s about all the retro I remember.
Edwardina and Gary T: I believe you are correct. As I think back on it, in 1962, I was working my first job and I recall wearing below-knee skirts and dresses and pointed toe, 3" heels. (My feet are now suffering from it.) I graduated high school in 1960, and the fashions at that time (at least in the D.C. Maryland suburbs) were below-the -knee skirts with bobby socks and penny loafers. I recall my “wilder” days in the early '70’s when I wore bell bottoms and mini-skirts and hung out in dance clubs reeking of weed (mainly the Varsity Grill, College Park, Maryland).
The very bottom of this page has pages from the UK Sears clothing catalogue for several years, and you can see the rising hemlines as the 60s progress.
The rest of the site has some great 1960s London fashion as well, but even there (the hotbed of fashion at the time) the minis don’t appear until 1964/5 or so…
We rolled our skirts when we left the house to show the knee, but not really above the knee. No pants of any kind, even in the Chicago winter. We did have these slit skirts with shorts underneath (hard to describe) that were popular for a short time. I graduated in 1968, but by the time my sister went 5 years later she was wearing cut offs and those halter tops girls used to make with bandannas.
The economics graph I linked to on page 1 shows a strong rising trend in hemline height over that span of years.
1962—18"
1964—20"
1967—25"
The pics you & I linked to track with the data in the chart.
1962—bottom of knee
1964—mid-knee
1966—top of knee
1968—mid-thigh