Vintage Mini Skirts

Women who wear vintage mini skirts may be considered as bold individuals.  Wearing one is no easy feat, aside from being daring you must also possess a nice pair of legs.  So wearing vintage miniskirts which is the shortest of the short takes guts.  Only a confident woman would be able to pull it off.

Normal miniskirts usually stops a few inches above the knee.  While micro miniskirts exposes the thigh completely.  A type of micro miniskirt even extends only an inch below the groin.  If you are young and have well-toned legs, then go ahead and wear one before it’s too late.  Just make sure to wear it only for the right occasion and place. 

People today usually think that short skirts are the trend during the 1960s, but it was only in 1966 that the short skirt started to appear and it was only in 1967 that it was widely worn.  The first half of the decade still used the late fifties style.  The straight shift, which is the predecessor of vintage mini dresses has evolved from the 1957 sack dress, has a hem line below the knee.

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You can wear vintage mini skirts when going to a party or club.  Refrain from wearing them in the office and when going to religious places.  Also make sure to choose the right shoes for your micro miniskirt.  When wearing a micro miniskirt, avoid bending if you do not want your underwear to be exposed.  If you follow these suggestions you will surely be the center of attention at the party or club.

Finding vintage miniskirts is easy, it is available in most stores, even online.  You can find it in different materials and designs, in a variety of attractive colors too.  Online, there are many sellers who give discounts on their micro miniskirts.  So owning one is not difficult, just choose one that you like and you are set to go.

So if you are young and have what it takes to wear a vintage mini skirt, grab your chance now before it is too late.  Do not waste any time, wear one now because life is short.

During the early sixties, women wore short sleeves over blouses with pleated skirt set on a hip yoke basque.  Those blouses are similar to the shell tops today.  Another style is the straight skirt that had front and back inverted pleats which are called kick pleats.  These kick pleats allowed free movement of the knee which was ideal for their dance craze, the twist.  Another fashionable style was the straight sweater dresses made with lambswool or Orlon, a synthetic acrylic material, which was worn with belts to nip the waist.

Pencil skirts were partnered with sweaters.  They can also be worn with back to front cardigans.  These cardigans were pressed super flat; they achieve this by placing them in between tissue and brown paper after washing.  Then they are placed under the carpet for two days to dry.  It will get a flat dry cleaned appearance from the footsteps that had walked on the carpet.

The introduction of pantyhose had made the mini really acceptable.  The pantyhose is also referred to as tights.  The tights gave protection from the weather and it also eliminated the unattractive sight of stocking tops.  A lot of women did not feel confident wearing a mini dress with stockings.

Women were freed from wearing girdles, roll-ons and suspender belts once the tights was launched in the 1960s.  What started the tights revolution was the invention of seamless stockings.  They are still unsure of which came first, the vintage mini skirt or the tights.  But one thing that’s for sure is that they could not have existed without one another because during those days no groomed young lady went out bare legged.

Another trendy pair for the very short dresses of the 60s is the flat boots.  Later on the style evolved until it reached the knee.  There was also the Dr. Scholl clog sandals that became very popular, they were worn both in the office and outdoors.  This fad lasted from the mid to the late sixties which was similar to the popularity of the Birkenstocks in the 1990s.

The dominant fashion trend then was the mini which can be worn during the day or night.  It became a sensible substitute for jeans which was worn with a tunic, shirt, skinny rib or matching suit jacket.  It turns into a suitable evening wear when the fabric used is of slinkier material.

A lot of things influenced fashion in the 1960s these includes daring fashion photography, social mobility, easier travel abroad, the Vietnam war, new music of the Beatles and their hairstyle, retro military and ethnic clothes, musicals, pop art and film.  And don’t forget Jackie Kennedy in the early 1960s wearing her trademark pill box hat and three quarter sleeves.