miniskirt

• In the 60s even she wore a miniskirt, demonstrating the more iron strictures of style 40 years ago, when designers dictated hemlines.But Elizabeth II, unlike her predecessor, Elizabeth I, who appears in her portraits immolated behind ruffs and pearl-encrusted bodices, has had to wait until old age to be declared a fashion icon.
• She was dressed in those weird clothes of hers — black miniskirt, boots, a couple of T-shirts, one bright red, the other yellow. —  Hard News
• The miniskirt was the defining fashion statement for London in the 1960's and it was reportedly developed by Mary Quant, who ran a clothing store in Chelsea. —  PWTorch.com
• He said acts of such vigilante violence on foreigners and South Africans included the stripping and beating of a woman at Noord Street taxi rank in Johannesburg for wearing a miniskirt, and the beating of a woman in Durban's Umlazi suburb for wearing trousers. —  Mail & Guardian Online
• She was wearing a miniskirt, unbuttoned men's dress shirt and lavender tie. —  New York Press

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