Mini Skirt in the Past

JustDave said:
I always made a confusing connection between mini-skirts and the hippy days, probably because the skirts came in during the end of "love and peace" movement, but the skirts were more flashy and modern than the jeans, headbands, and Native American styles adopted by hippies. Maybe they were more of a reflection of the ****** revolution, a protest toward the ****** morality of the 50s. Or maybe it was just part of the social changes taking place during that period of my life.
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The 60's lauxes revolution was definitely HUGE. I remember watching "Laugh IN" and how the whole hippie thing was "groovy". :)

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PeppermintPatty said:
Actually it IS the forum. I can type out that word on other forums.
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I suppose it's possible that Google offers a text window with that restriction (they seem to offer just about anything), but this is one of only a few sites that use the Google engine.
Paco Dennis said:
The 60's lauxes revolution was definitely HUGE. I remember watching "Laugh IN" and how the whole hippie thing was "groovy". :)

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"Lauxes!" I had to look that one up:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lauxes
 
JustDave said:
I suppose it's possible that Google offers a text window with that restriction (they seem to offer just about anything), but this is one of only a few sites that use the Google engine.

"Lauxes!" I had to look that one up:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lauxes
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Maybe ! That I know absolutely nothing about.
I just know I tried it other places and it’s not banned.
 

Mini skirts are back for the young, at least the cheerleader type like the lady on the left in the first photo. I’ve seen a few lately. Asked a teacher and she said they have a few questionable calls about them. The biggest issue is tops that are so short they don’t keep well-endowed young gals covered. The other issue is very lightweight fabric on skin tight body suits. Technically they’re covered, but every shape is accented.
 
Jules said:
The biggest issue is tops that are so short they don’t keep well-endowed young gals covered.
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I saw that recently in Walmart. A young woman had on a very, very short top and no "underpinnings".

As she bounced down the aisle, so did her jiggly parts. Now you see them, now you don't. Rinse and repeat.

She knew *exactly* what she was doing....
 
Della said:
I don't see any "bad taste" about white pants and an orange striped shirt. Seems like a nice summer outfit to me.
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To duplicate the lady in orange that at saw you would have to add orange hair, orange lipstick, orange shoe laces, and a few other things all in bright neon orange. She can dress as she wishes, of course. And I can think it’s a bit over the top. Now, where did I put my neon lime green with purple polka dots ‘wife beater’ shirt?
 
Poor Dr. Biden can't get a break. Not long ago she got all sorts of flack for not wearing any tights at all at the coronation of King Charles. I admit I'm not crazy about bare legs with dressy suits and dresses.

What I like is how often she wears beige shoes with her dresses, whatever the color. I used to have a friend who hated it if I wore a colored dress with my beige heels and particularly if my dress was white. She would come right out and say my shoes didn't match anything and I would say, "My shoes match my legs!" I never told her what my father, and later my mother-in-law said about white high heels.
 
I started wearing a mini skirt at about age 14 in '69....as part of my school uniform, as did everyone other girl in school.. except one Hippy girl..if our. skirts weren't short enough we'd roll them up at the waist. School ruled that we must have them no more than 3 inches above the knee, so we'd roll them down while in the building and roll them back up when outside..

I wore short skirts and dresses right up until my 40's...then in my 50's I started wearing them to my knees.. and below.. ..
 
Della said:
Poor Dr. Biden can't get a break. Not long ago she got all sorts of flack for not wearing any tights at all at the coronation of King Charles. I admit I'm not crazy about bare legs with dressy suits and dresses.

What I like is how often she wears beige shoes with her dresses, whatever the color. I used to have a friend who hated it if I wore a colored dress with my beige heels and particularly if my dress was white. She would come right out and say my shoes didn't match anything and I would say, "My shoes match my legs!" I never told her what my father, and later my mother-in-law said about white high heels.
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Nude coloured shoes are the best to wear if wearing a dress because as you say they match the legs and even elongate the legs...

White high heels were always said to be the shoes of a Wh****.... so we never wore them..I don't know where that came from because in the 60's they were very fashionable with the young women of the time with their Bouffant hair etc... but by the 70's when I was a teen,.. they were a big No-No

The last time I wore a skirt above my knees I was in my 50's...
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hollydolly said:
Nude coloured shoes are the best to wear if wearing a dress because as you say they match the legs and even elongate the legs...

White high heels were always said to be the shoes of a Wh****.... so we never wore them..I don't know where that came from because in the 60's they were very fashionable with the young women of the time with their Bouffant hair etc... but by the 70's when I was a teen,.. they were a big No-No

The last time I wore a skirt above my knees I was in my 50's...
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I never heard anything negative about white shoes except for the old rule of not wearing them between Labor Day (Sept 4th roughly) and Memorial Day (May 31.

White heels were rarely part of my wardrobe because, being a spiller and someone who can get dirty in a scientific cleanroom, I shied away from white clothing in general. Still do.
 
StarSong said:
I never heard anything negative about white shoes except for the old rule of not wearing them between Labor Day (Sept 4th roughly) and Memorial Day (May 31.

White heels were rarely part of my wardrobe because, being a spiller and someone who can get dirty in a scientific cleanroom, I shied away from white clothing in general. Still do.
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white heels always had that Connotation in the UK... from the 70's onwards.. even in the 80' when stiletto heels became fashionable again for a few years.. the White shoe thing raised it's ugly head , and most people wouldn't wear them...
 
hollydolly said:
white heels always had that Connotation in the UK... from the 70's onwards.. even in the 80' when stiletto heels became fashionable again for a few years.. the White shoe thing raised it's ugly head , and most people wouldn't wear them...
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Interesting. Was it limited to white heels or white shoes in general? Were prostitutes known for wearing white footwear?
 
StarSong said:
Interesting. Was it limited to white heels or white shoes in general? Were prostitutes known for wearing white footwear?
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yes white heels..not white shoes..just white stilletos... yes the prositute connection was the reason... not sure prositiutes ever wore white high heels anyway..none that I ever saw...
 
hollydolly said:
Nude coloured shoes are the best to wear if wearing a dress because as you say they match the legs and even elongate the legs...

White high heels were always said to be the shoes of a Wh****.... so we never wore them..I don't know where that came from because in the 60's they were very fashionable with the young women of the time with their Bouffant hair etc... but by the 70's when I was a teen,.. they were a big No-No

The last time I wore a skirt above my knees I was in my 50's...
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Did you know that Amazon have a web page titled "Slutty Shoes?"
 
hollydolly said:
White high heels were always said to be the shoes of a Wh****.... so we never wore them..I don't know where that came from because in the 60's they were very fashionable with the young women of the time with their Bouffant hair etc... but by the 70's when I was a teen,.. they were a big No-No
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I never heard that but I can see how it might have begun in the 1970's when the uniform of such.. er... workers, was long blond wig, micro-mini skirt and knee high white vinyl boots. I think they were all trying to look like Nancy Sinatra -- top fantasy girl of the boys at that time.

It was earlier, the 1960's, when I heard my father say you could always tell the country girls who had come to town by their white high heels. I later heard my mother in law from Ohio say the same thing.

My father knew a lot about fashion because he did the window displays for the high-end clothing stores so he learned to notice the styles. I remember him saying that the best dressed women in Charleston were the black women and my mother and I would take note of what they were wearing when we were in town. Mom and I were country girls ourselves, but didn't want to show it.
 
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Della said:
I never heard that but I can see how it might have begun in the 1970's when the uniform of such.. er... workers, was long blond wig, micro-mini skirt and knee high white vinyl boots. I think they were all trying to look like Nancy Sinatra -- top fantasy girl of the boys at that time.

It was earlier, the 1960's, when I heard my father say you could always tell the country girls who had come to town by their white high heels. I later heard my mother in law from Ohio say the same thing.

My father knew a lot about fashion because he did the window displays for the high-end clothing stores so he learned to notice the styles. I remember him saying that the best dressed women in Charleston were the black women and my mother and I would take note of what they were wearing when we were in town. Mom and I were country girls ourselves, but didn't want to show it.
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I grew up in the city... and when I was a child in the 60's all the young woman wore high heel white stilettos..or so it seemed to me...

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Reading this thread reminded me of when I went to Catholic school many many years ago. The Nuns would make us kneel on the floor and if your uniform didn't touch the floor you were punished because they said it was too short. What they didn't know was when we left school we hiked up our uniform and pulled it under the belt and made it much shorter. The Nuns wouldn't have liked it but the boys sure did.
 

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