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  • Right now, the skirt's new sweet spot falls just below the knee, writes the Journal's Alexa Brazilian.

    Fashion: The Mid-Length Skirt 2011

  • She's underneath, her skirt's rode right round her waist and her dough-white thighs are rippling up.

    Four Queens Mark Staniforth 2011

  • Her head is covered—in piety, perhaps—but her skirt's hemline rests nontraditionally several inches above her knees.

    India's Passage to Modernism Rachel Wolff 2011

  • The skirt's hem, clutched in her small hands, she moaning with misery and frustration, leapt up and down, again and again, in ever-shortening cycles until she held it, frustratedly, between her bosom and throat.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • She leaped to her feet, clutching her skirt's hem again about her neck.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • If we're to believe that the skirt's right... then the legs are all wrong.

    Veja: Lettuce Never Forget! Cosmo7 2009

  • If we're to believe that her hip's cocked, then the lettuce leaf skirt's all wrong.

    Veja: Lettuce Never Forget! Cosmo7 2009

  • On her first try, her straw boater flew from her head, and she stumbled over the long skirt's ruffle.

    Thelma Adams: Racing Daylight 2008

  • I would have to add something about the skirt's superior ability to moderate temperatures - cool and swishy in summer, warm and layered in winter.

    Ten Reasons Skirts are Better Than Pants - A Dress A Day 2008

  • The skirt's not too narrow or too full, the neck's neither too high (strangle-y) nor too low (cleavage-y) and the simple lines mean that you could go a bit wild with your fabric choices.

    September 2008 2008

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