After a solid six years of the midi, shorter skirts are back
I can’t remember the last time I wrote about hemlines. Which is weird, because fashion used to be all about them. It was knee-length one season, maxi the next, then a season of minis and a cameo for the micro mini, and then spin the wheel all over again. Indeed, if it wasn’t for hemlines, my job wouldn’t exist: it was the sensation caused by the New Look in 1947, when the sheer extravagance of fabric in Christian Dior’s full, calf-length skirts shocked the postwar world, inventing the idea that fashion could be news.
So, drumroll please, for a new hemline. After a solid six years of the midi, the above-the-knee skirt is back. At the Celine show in Paris and the Victoria Beckham show in London, the autumn catwalks raised the hemline bar to an inch or two above the knee.
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