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Mini Skirt

I. INTRODUCTION: THE ADVENT OF THE MINI SKIRT

Among the numerous fashion innovations of the 1960s, it is essential to list in a predominate position the Mini Skirt. The Mini Skirt is an extremely abbreviated skirt which barely covers the bottoms of its wearers and represented, to some of its critics, the most blatant example of a new (and degenerate) sexual morality that would come to characterize the “Hippie” and “Flower Power” generations. This brief report will describe the style, positioning it within the social, political and economic tenor of the era in which it first appeared. It will also assess the reappearance of the Mini in the 1990s, again with reference to these environmental facto9rs. The report will conclude with an analysis of what the original and “new” Mini Skirt suggests about the two very disparate eras in which it has gained acceptance as a fashion trend.

II. AMERICAN SOCIETY & THE MINI SKIRT

Richard Davis and Jeff Stone (1985) date the arrival of the “Age of Aquarius” simultaneously with the presentation of the Mini Skirt in 1965. Worn by virtually everyone interested in fashion (and without much attention to whether or not one’s body was suited to the extremely short skirt, which focuses attention upon the legs and hips), the Mini was immediately adopted by college students, “hippies”, members of the social and political counterculture, fashion tend setters and followers, and women of widely different ages of social as well as economic backgrounds. While the Mini remained a fashion statement throughout the Sixties, it largely disappeared in the 1970s as hemlines again dropped.

The environment in which the Mini emerged as a sign and symbol of participation in the new social and political “counterculture” was one of turmoil and rapid change. Paul Jacobs and Saul Landau (1966) described the early-to-mid 1960s as a period in which radical action, in public as well as priva...

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Mini Skirt. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 18:29, March 28, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1684809.html