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Full, hip-length "lampshade" tunics were worn over narrow, draped skirts. By 1914, skirts were widest at the hips and very narrow at the ankle. These hobble skirts made long strides impossible. Tunics became longer and underskirts fuller and shorter. By 1916 women were wearing calf-length dresses. [8]
Skirts rose all the way from floor-length to near knee-length in little more than fifteen years (from late in the decade of the 1900s to the mid-1920s). Between 1919 and 1923 they changed considerably, being almost to the floor in 1919, rising to the mid-calf in 1920, before dropping back to the ankles by 1923.
The shift adopted from the Ottoman style was knee length, and the sleeves were often edged with lace or embroidery. It was usually white, and made in any fiber except wool. [22] It was sheer. In the 18th and early 19th-century, it was ankle length, but by the 1830s it was knee length. Dancer's shifts in the mid 19th-century were waist length. [30]
Woman wearing modern dirndl with long skirt Children wearing traditional dirndls at a folk festival in Vilshofen an der Donau (Bavaria), 2012 Traditional long-skirted dirndls from Lienz in Tyrol, Austria, 2015. A dirndl (German: [ˈdɪʁndl̩] ⓘ) is a feminine dress which originated in German-speaking areas of the Alps.
Women employees of the Aluminum Co. of Kingston, Ontario wear knee-length skirts with blouses or sweaters (often with a string of graduated pearls), 1943. Women's fashion in Europe (Hungary, 1943). Singer Peggy Lee wears a pompadour hairstyle and an evening dress with a "sweetheart" neckline in the film Stage Door Canteen , 1943.
The sack-back gown or robe à la française was a women's fashion of 18th century Europe. [1] At the beginning of the century, the sack-back gown was a very informal style of dress. At its most informal, it was unfitted both front and back and called a sacque, contouche, or robe battante. By the 1770s the sack-back gown was second only to court ...
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An ankle-length daytime skirt, popular with women in the late 1960s as a reaction against miniskirts. [22] Midi skirt: A skirt with hem halfway between ankle and knee, below the widest part of the calf. Introduced by designers in 1967 as a reaction to very short mini skirts. [22] Miniskirt: A skirt ending between knee and upper thigh, 1960s ...