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  • Unlike other women landing from the steamers, she was neither short-skirted nor bloomer-clad.

    THE TASTE OF THE MEAT 2010

  • There's a post-Spice Girls sense of short-skirted girl power about the project, which Clarke admits was tailormade to keep the lads 'mags readers on board but which I found increasingly grating; can scenes of sapphic exhibitionism really be passed off as female empowerment?

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010

  • Her dress was of the mountaineering sort, short-skirted and scant, allowing the greatest play with the least material, and withal gray of color and modest.

    CHAPTER 3 2010

  • Pig-tailed, short-skirted and rolling around in a way her neglectful parents should have warned against, she offered many a flash of knicker to the front-row prommers.

    Bliss; BBC Prom 61: Hänsel and Gretel 2010

  • Peach tells Papa Gunn that she's making a short-skirted dress.

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 4 Recap: That Darn Hat 2010

  • "Kate Middleton wears Penelope Chilvers classic Long Tassel Boot," points out Chrystal PR ? with admirable simplicity in the circumstances ? alongside a fetching photograph of a short-skirted Ms Middleton in the boots.

    The royal wedding PR goldrush Stephen Moss 2010

  • Dressed in a short-skirted black suit, adorned only by a knockout of an emerald ring, matching ear bobs and a few inconspicuous tattoos, Jolie looks both unattainably gorgeous and improbably of-this-world.

    Action figure: Angelina Jolie is out to prove she's an actress worth her 'Salt' 2010

  • He returned dazed and shaken by the wave of bacchic revelry released in America and Europe at the end of world War I, treating Pearl and her mother to hair-raising stories of lewd, raucous, short-skirted, hard-drinking modern youth: ‘every-where I went they all had their dresses up to their knees.’

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • He returned dazed and shaken by the wave of bacchic revelry released in America and Europe at the end of world War I, treating Pearl and her mother to hair-raising stories of lewd, raucous, short-skirted, hard-drinking modern youth: ‘every-where I went they all had their dresses up to their knees.’

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • Exquisitely clad in short-skirted Chanel suits, both Mrs. Buckley and Mrs. Brown had what looked to me to be the most enormous knees and tiny little legs imaginable.

    Michael Henry Adams: "Would You Like Me To Take My Shoes Off?", Dancing, Lunching and Laughing With Mrs. William F. Buckley, Jr. 2009

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