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  2. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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    The shoe size is directly proportional to the length of the foot in the chosen unit of measurement. Sizes of children's, men's, and women's shoes, as well as sizes of different types of shoes, can be compared directly. This is used with the Mondopoint system (USSR/Russia and East Asia). Size 0 as the length of the shoe's inner cavity of 0.

  3. File:Hemline (skirt height) overview chart 1805-2005.svg

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    An abstract conceptual overview graph of changes in hemline heights (skirt lengths) in middle- and upper-class western women's clothes over two hundred years (1805-2005). The curve in this image is not based on exact numerical data, but instead presents a summary of broad general trends (i.e. the graph is more qualitative than quantitative, or ...

  4. Polka dot - Wikipedia

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    The polka dot (also written Polkadot) is a pattern consisting of an array of large filled circles of the same size. [ 1 ] Polka dots are commonly seen on children's clothing , toys , furniture , ceramics , and Central European folk art , but they appear in a wide array of contexts.

  5. Clothing sizes - Wikipedia

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    BS 3666:1982 Specification for size designation of women's wear BS 6185:1982 Specification for size designation of men's wear BS 3666:1982, the standard for women's clothing, is rarely followed by manufacturers as it defines sizes in terms of hip and bust measurements only within a limited range.

  6. U.S. standard clothing size - Wikipedia

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    For taller women (usually 5 ft 8 in or above), usually with a proportionately average bust height and an hourglass figure. Sizes are usually written with the corresponding misses' size and a T to indicate tall, as in "10T". Half sizes For short women with lower busts and more hourglass body shapes. Sizes are written with a 1 ⁄ 2, as in "10 ...

  7. Miniskirt - Wikipedia

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    A miniskirt (sometimes hyphenated as mini-skirt, separated as mini skirt, or sometimes shortened to simply mini) is a skirt with its hemline well above the knees, generally at mid-thigh level, normally no longer than 10 cm (4 in) below the buttocks; [1] and a dress with such a hemline is called a minidress or a miniskirt dress.

  8. Skirt - Wikipedia

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    Very popular in the late 1860s, mid-1890s, early 20th century, 1930s, 1940s, and now worn as a classic skirt style. [22] Inverted pleated skirt: A skirt made by bringing two folds of fabric to a center line in front and/ or back. May be cut straight at sides or be slightly flared. Has been a basic type of skirt since the 1920s. [22] Pleated skirt

  9. Hemline - Wikipedia

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    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.