Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adjectives ranging from "hideous" to "unflattering," have been applied by Radcliffe undergraduates to the new skirt lengths. Puppies and strong words to the contrary, however, 30 out of 30 Cliffedwellers admitted yesterday that they are buying the knee-covering skirts and dropling hemlines on the old ones earthwards...
...Luey Manuellian, Radcliffe '50, put it: "I'm all for skirts that stop very little below the knee, but I don't think you can change style by joining a club. The clothes are already manufactured and they're going to be bought...
...guest editor of Mademoiselle, women's fashion magazine. Marry Lou Buckley, Radcliffe, '49, thinks that a moderate length will be adopted by college girls. "Thirteen or 14 inches from the ground is quite enough for daytime wear," she said. "Tall girls will discover that skirts well below the knee are graceful and flattering to them, but extreme length will make short girls look henny...
After that, Kootz's own local stable of U.S. painters could only irritate, not shock. Fernand Leger brought up the rear with one of his obsessive puzzles: three ropey girls tied in a Gordian knot. Venus de Milo was obviously as out of fashion as a pretty knee...
...this dithering convinced many a woman that the New Look was merely cockeyed. In Georgia, a group of outraged men formed the League of Broke Husbands, hoped to get "30,000 American husbands to hold that hemline." In Louisville, 1,265 Little Below the Knee Club members signed a manifesto against any change in the old knee-high style. And in Oildale, Calif., Mrs. Louise Horn gave a timely demonstration of the dangers lurking in the New Look. As she alighted from a bus, her new long, full skirt caught in the door. The bus started...