My obsession with
gathered skirts has reached an eminent climax, to the point that I decided to
make one myself...or better yet haunt one in every shop I can possibly find. This
one I made and I’m very happy with. The introduction of skirts skimming the
waistline started during the 19th century below the bust (the Empire silhouette) and gradually sank to the lower waist.
Skirts started fairly narrow and increased dramatically to the Hoop skirt and Crinoline -supported styles of the 1860`s; then
fullness was added in the waist.
In the beginning of 1915 the hemline went up up and away for women’s
day wear for good, which was very good by the way. For the next fifty
years fashionable skirts became short (1920`s), then long (1930`s), then shorter (the War Years) with their restrictions on fabric), then long (the "New
Look ")then shortest of all from 1967 to 1970,
when skirts became as short as possible while
avoiding exposure of underwear, which was considered taboo.
I had so much fun making this shoot; I’d
like to know how you feel about my new skirt, pretty, not? Or you’re obsessions
about short skirts and their different sorts
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