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Wednesday, 25 June 2014

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Below pencil skirt is usually worn either as a separate piece of clothing or as part of a suit. The slim, narrow shape of a pencil skirt can restrict the movement of the wearer so pencil skirts often have a slit at the back, or less commonly at the sides. Sometimes a pleat, which exposes less skin, is used instead of a slit. The classic shoes for wearing with a pencil skirt are high heels, with sheer stockings or tights. Back-seamed hosiery matches well, recalling the classic pencil-skirt era of the 1950s.
Pencil skirts can also be worn with flats for a more casual, youthful appearance that echoes the 1960s. Pencil skirts and loafers are classic
In 1940, Christian Dior created the first pencil skirt, a shortened adaptation inspired by the provocative shape of the 1910 hobble skirt.
After the shapeless gowns of the flapper era, and decades of covered legs and ankles, women immediately embraced the curvy shape of the classic pencil skirt.
The earliest pencil skirts were part of a woman’s suit ensemble, worn with a jacket or tunic.
Eventually, the pencil skirt was worn with fitted blouses and soft sweaters, accentuating the female form with nipped in waists and round curvy hips. Corsets, once abandoned, re-gained popularity to enhance the pencil skirt shape.
Dior’s design capitalized on dressing women fashionably in the post WWII cultural movement. Again tired of wartime clothing, women embraced a more curvy and feminine look.
In the era of post WWII prosperity, ready to wear was affordable. Almost everyone had the ability to afford new clothing.
After the release of the Dior Classic in 1940, celebrities fell in love with the pencil skirt. The pencil skirt was strutted by notorious pinup Betty Page (1923–2008), screen goddess Ava Gardner(1922-1990), Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) and became a staple in the classic wardrobe of Princess Grace (1929-1982).
Marilyn Monroe Pencil SkirtsThe original blond bombshell’s off-screen wardrobe was chic, very simple, and always sexy.
The very first playboy model, Marilyn Monroe loved button down shirts, pencil skirts, capri pants, slim and silky dresses and soft sweaters.
In the 1959 movie, Some Like It Hot, there’s a great scene where Marilyn sashays by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon at the train station. She’s wearing a pencil skirt. They watch in awe, mouths gaping open.
Finally, Jack Lemmon says, “Look at that! Look how she moves!” — a sentiment that’s kept the pencil skirt alive and popular for decades.
Fond of pencil skirts off-stage, in 1959, Audrey Hepburn wore a pencil dress in the classic “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and created another pencil skirt rage. The pencil dress would later become known simply as the fashion staple known as the “little black dress.”
PENCIL SKIRTS GO MINI
One of the most influential designers of the 60s, John Bates, dressed celebrities such as Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Dusty Springfield and Diana Rigg in The Avengers series. Bates was making mini skirts before most other designers, though he is not the most well known.
In 1964, Courrèges was also designing mini-length pencil skirts, also to little acclaim. However, his designs inspired Mary Quant, who became most well known for the launch of the 1960s mini pencil skirt.
By 1966, Quant was producing short pencil skirts 6 or 7 inches above the knee. The invention of pantyhose, comparable to ladies “tights” today, made the short pencil skirt feasible. No more worries about stocking lines showing with short skirts.
THE 1980S PENCIL SKIRT
Madonna 80s Pencil SkirtThe pencil skirt faded away for a few years in the 1970s, only to surge again in the 1980s.
Though conservative didn’t fade away entirely, the leopard print pencil skirt was all the rage, along with pencil skirts in zebra, metallic fabrics, leather and wildly colored prints.
Celebrities and models alike were rocking the 50s pencil skirt look. Performers including Madonna and The Spice Girls wore the look, while classic models like Cheryl Tiegs sported the Grace Kelley classic pencil skirt look.
During the 90s, the pencil skirt faded a little, retained mostly as a classic suit skirt for it’s slender lines and lack of bulk with a suit jacket. In the 2000s, the perennial favorite is back.
The 80s leopard pencil skirt by Yoana Baraschi (Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s) and other “Vintage 1980s” skirts are all the rage, again, along with the leather pencil skirt, the classic 1980 pencil skirt and the denim pencil skirt. If you Google “celebrity pencil skirt” you’ll find no shortage of celebs sporting the pencil skirt in all it’s glory.
Not bad for a fashion that started with a rope tied around the skirts of the first woman to fly in an aeroplane. 100 years and going strong. Long live the pencil skirt!

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