If one fashion item
could sum up the 60s it would be the mini skirt. Opinion is split on who came up
with the idea - the wise money would probably go on a Frenchman, Jean Courreges,
but our own Mary Quant is widely accepted as having dreamt up the ever more
daring hemline.
Within a year anybody
who had the body to pull it off was wearing a mini skirt.
In New York the norm for
a short skirt was 4-5 inches above the knee but over in Swinging London anything
other than 7-8 inches above the knee was considered positively decent!
The usual look was to
pair what little was left of the mini skirt with matching sweater and tights for
a uniform look. When, in 1968, Jackie Kennedy wore a white Valentino miniskirt
for her wedding to Aristotle Onassis its place at the pinnacle of fashion was
most definitely confirmed.
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