Word: skirting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis, Edward Fila went to a fancy dress party, dressed in raffia skirt as a hulamaiden. In striking a match, he set fire to his skirt, was badly burned...
Color-of-the-season in U. S. women's fashions is no longer determined by a universal change of taste, nor even by the Paris designers who set skirt lengths, waist heights. Color-of-the-season is now decided by the U. S. manufacturers of silks, cotton-goods, shoes, hats, pocketbooks. These gentlemen simply "get together" and agree that one season's cerise shall be supplanted by green, purple or "Mrs. Harding blue." They agree that a certain proportion, say 65%!, of each gentleman's production shall be in the agreed new color. That saves money in dye-buying...
...plugging mostly languorous waltzes and slow exotic tango-tunes. Thus no one was surprised when President Sheehy manifestoed: "It is a return of grace and dignity to the ballroom that is on its way. . . . The popularity of soft, crooning melodies and the return to favor of the long skirt have paved the way for the waltz. Furthermore, the middle-aged and elderly are tired of being ignored as in the passing era of jerky jazz dancing and are insisting upon steps that do not try to make a jumping jack of the broker and high kicking...
Jean Patou-High waistlines, skirts five inches below the knee for sports, just clearing the floor at night. The "Egyptian silhouet," evening gowns with a draped front, skirt slit to the calf. Peaked cloth caps for winter sports with fur ear-laps á la Kennebunk Port. Featured colors: dark yellow, green, astrakhan beige...
...third (post-deluge) day (which incidentally was fine),the Conservative Evening Standard's male representative at Ascot described as follows for readers who include most of the peerage what seemed to him to be the actual mode this year: "A tight-fitting bodice of transparent muslin with a skirt which may be made in one of two ways: either it is a mass of narrow frills from waist to hem or is gathered at the waist and flows outward, measuring goodness knows how many yards in circumference around the feet...