![]() Once Marilyn was doing it, plenty of other stars known for their sex appeal starting wearing the new skirts. Or because pencil skirts are sexy and they make you walk like a sexy lady! I don’t know, probably the former, maybe the latter. Cool fact - Marilyn Monroe’s wiggly walk was actually due to the fact that one of her legs is said to have been shorter than the other. Pencil skirts became a staple of Marilyn Monroe’s wardrobe prompting Jack Lemon to exclaim "Look at how she moves!" when she wore one in Some Like It Hot. Imperfect though they might have been from a practical standpoint, a lot of celebrities really embraced the opportunity to show off their curves in pencil skirts. And, at first, well, at least you didn’t have to strap yourself into a crinoline before you headed outside. But part of its popularity was also due to the fact that, given the fact that they couldn’t kick their legs out or take very large steps, it was the easiest dance for women in pencil skirts to do.įortunately, the skirts got a bit looser as time went on. Partly, that’s doubtless because the Twist - which just involves swiveling your hips back and forth - is a fun dance. The dance the Twist became popular around 1960 after Chubby Checker demonstrated it on the Dick Clark show. They were a practical necessity that meant women could stretch their legs out enough to walk. The slits you see in the back of pencil skirts weren’t just to add a cool little extra glimpse of leg. The original design for pencil skirts was meant to cling to a woman’s body so tightly that some women had difficulty walking in them, especially if the skirts went over the knee. I should stress the not quite as impeded part, though. The new pencil skirts allowed women to show off their feminine curves, and not be quite as impeded from going about the business of daily life as they would have been in the immediate post wartime fashions. Women who’d been wearing overalls through the war realized that wearing a ballgown everywhere was not necessarily as fun as it might have initially seemed. The popularity of the H-Line and the pencil skirt had to do with people getting really sick of the New Look. Some of the New Look skirts were meant to be paired with a crinoline to make them even wider and more billowing. The popularity of that look had a lot to do with the post-war economic boom and the end of rationing, which meant that people could get clothes with tons and tons of fabric in them. Immediately after World War II Dior had become famous for his New Look, which featured dresses with huge ruffled skirts and tiny cinched waists. However, his pencil skirts really took off in 1954 with his H-Line collection. ![]() You can see a picture from of it from the 1910’s here.īy the 1940’s, Christian Dior decided to do away with that excess ruffle and the pencil skirt was born. The hobble skirt was a traditional long skirt that was tied around the legs below the knee, created an effect similar to the pencil skirt, if the pencil skirt had a long ruffle poking out beneath it. When she stepped off the plane she was photographed wildly (it was a big deal! She was the first woman on the plane!) and the hobble skirt was born. So they tied a cord around her skirt slightly below her knees to help hem it in. When Wilbur and Orville Wright brought Edith Berg onto their brand new plane, they were worried that her long skirt might get caught on the machinery. Photo: Keystone/Gettyīut they actually do have a pretty sexy history, beginning in 1908 with the first female passenger on an airplane. ![]()
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