In reply to Karl Fuler:
PIC>: lifestooshorttoblendin.blogspot.com/ 2008/09/w...
I was drawn to your observation at the time .... but I had been waiting for the original poster of the subject to give you a reply .... but seeing that there hasn't been any so far then allow me to post this ....
CYNTHIA DURCANIN
Founding Editor of Elle.com
Retail Vice: A.P.C., Paris
While serving as the Founding Editor of Elle Magazine’s Paris-based international website Elle.com. While at Elle, Cynthia launched numerous features, including Elle Webwalks, a virtual catwalk with live audio and video from the Paris collections. Cynthia has also served as a Senior Editor at Salon.com and is a seasoned Paris correspondent, reporting for the Wall Street Journal, Esquire, and Travel and Leisure. Most recently Cynthia served as the Senior Editor, Retail Content at eLuxury.
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I must say after having read the following bit she wrote on the subject "History of Fashion" - What is Fashion ? ... I was more than puzzled !!!
REF>: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/infocus/fashion/whatisfashion.html
QUOTES :
- " Even folks in the 1700s pored over fashion magazines to see the latest styles"
-" Popular fashions are close to impossible to trace. No one can tell how the SHORT SKIRTS and boots worn by teenagers in England in 1960 made it to the runways of Paris, or how blue jeans became so popular in the U.S., or how hip-hop made it from the streets of the Bronx to the Haute Couture fashion shows of London and Milan."
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The following an extract from .......... ' ICONS : A PORTRAIT OF ENGLAND':
THE MINISKIRT
http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/miniskirt/biography/miniskirt-antecedents-finished
" In the 1960s, the old world order began to disintegrate. Previously downtrodden groups of people were finding their voices and starting to shout, leading to the rise of the Civil Rights movement and Women’s Liberation. Young people were rejecting the social and imperialist ideas of their parents and establishing their own identities.
The miniskirt was one of the emblems of this rebellion. For the first time in fashion history, the young were leading the old. Designers were sensitive to this youthful revolt and reflected it in their increasingly daring clothes.
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WIKIPEDIA:
MARY QUANT ran a popular clothes shop in the Kings Road, Chelsea, London called Bazaar, from which she sold her own designs. In the late 1950s she began experimenting with shorter skirts, which resulted in the miniskirt in 1965—one of the defining fashions of the decade.
Owing to Quant's position in the heart of fashionable "Swinging London", the miniskirt was able to spread beyond a simple street fashion into a major international trend. Its acceptance was greatly boosted by Jean Shrimpton's wearing a short white shift dress, made by Colin Rolfe, on 30 October 1965 at Derby Day, first day of the annual Melbourne Cup Carnival in Australia, where it caused a sensation. According to Shrimpton, who claimed that the brevity of the skirt was due mainly to Rolfe's having insufficient material, the ensuing controversy was as much as anything to do with her having dispensed with a hat and gloves, seen as the essential accessories in such conservative society.[1]
[edit]Development
The miniskirt was further popularized by André Courrèges, who developed it separately and incorporated it into his Mod look, for spring/summer 1965. His miniskirts were less body-hugging, and worn with the white "Courrèges boots" that became a trademark. By introducing the miniskirt into the haute couture of the fashion industry, Courrèges gave it a greater degree of respectability than might otherwise have been expected of a street fashion.
The miniskirt was followed up in the late 1960s by the even shorter microskirt, which has been referred to derogatorily as a belt or pelmet. Upper garments, such as rugby shirts, were sometimes adapted as mini-dresses. Tights or panty-hose became highly fashionable, in place of stockings, specifically because the rise in hemlines meant that stocking tops would be visible. Mary Quant cited this development in defence of the miniskirt: "In European countries where they ban mini-skirts in the streets and say they're an invitation to rape, they don't understand about stocking tights underneath".[2]
