Biography of the skirt

The second is alluring elegance. It was this model that managed to combine beauty, severity and sexuality. For more than a century, we are happy to choose this elegant silhouette. Obviously, nothing will change in the coming years. During this period, a new principle of cut of clothing was formed, and the skirt separated from the bodice. But before the appearance of a pencil skirt in the history for a long time.

In the year, the American Mrs. Edith Hart O. Bert became the first woman passenger airplane. She, like all ladies, wore a magnificent skirt. But flying in such an outfit is inconvenient and unsafe: the skirt flutters during the flight and risks getting stuck in mechanisms. Edith showed entrepreneuriality to bandage her skirt below the knees. It was a memorable event.

The personnel were on the pages of newspapers and magazines around the world. At that time, French designer Paul Poare saw in these photographs the idea for creating a new style of the Hobble Skirt women's skirt - a narrow skirt with a slightly flashed heal. In the year in the Russian magazine Fashion Sveta, an article was published about the trend style of the skirt: “All the new skirt models are still very narrow, although it is still wider than last season.

No one assumed that the narrow skirts, which at the beginning of their appearance caused so many attacks and ridicule, would dominate such a long time and enjoy such success. ” The First World War left its mark on the development of fashion in the world, and impractical skirts remained in the shadow. A new era begins in the year. The legendary Coco Chanel offers the world of fashion an elegant, tight -fitting model, which successfully emphasizes the grace of slender female legs and the sexuality of the figure.

So the same pencil skirt appeared that we know it now. By analogy with a small black dress, a pencil skirt at the very beginning of its “career” had a length below the knees. Even in x -cutting skirts, he began to become narrower and quadratic - an example of this can be seen in the film “Having or not” with Lauren Bacon in the lead role. It is worth paying tribute to other authoritative couture of that era, for example, Christobal Balenciag, who, with his things, strove to emphasize the natural lines of the female body, and not distort them with linings and crinolins.

Christian Dior presented his collection with the things of the H-Siluet, including a pencil skirt. According to the cut of the model, they resembled the outlines of the Latin letter H - straight lines, an emphasized waist. They looked profitable on the figure, as they visually lengthened their legs and moved the emphasis on the hips. This collection has become an alternative to the famous New Look silhouette with its magnificent skirts.

The couturier offered to wear such a skirt with a bar jacket or with a tight -fitting top. Thanks to the eminent designers, the pencil skirt became an element of the elegant wardrobe of Lady Higher Belarus-Jacqueline Kennedy was very fond of. In X and X, a pencil skirt has become a determining wardrobe item. She thought as an exclusively practical clothing item. The skirts served as a daily uniform for working women, especially if they were supplemented with a small cut from behind.

A woman in such a skirt could be an elegant intellectual as Grace Kelly in a “window in the courtyard” or a sexy seducer, like Sophia Loren, who wore them with tops of striped and fitted jackets. Marilyn Monroe, whose image is largely associated with this subject of clothing, brought him to the status of cults: thanks to her, the pencil skirt became a symbol of absolute femininity, and the figure of the "sand clock"-the standard of beauty.

Like Hobble Skirt x, such an outfit demanded a certain gait, which can be seen in Monroe’s performance in the films “Gentlemen prefer blondes” and “only girls in jazz”. In years, the silhouette with broad shoulders became fashionable, the concept of Power Dressing appeared, the “power style”-a wardrobe of a business woman, a strong and self-confident business woman. It is during this period that the length of the pencil skirts becomes shorter: the knee remains open or the skirt is slightly covered.

This trend is picked up by the stars of the creative industry. Today, on the catwalk, the image with a pencil skirt is more like a stylization than the official dress code. For example, Miuccia Prada in the spring collection Miu Miu tore off the office severity, leaving only crop tops and crops from costumes.

The pencil skirt in reading the designer looks deliberately careless. Other designers also continue to experiments with a pencil skirt. In addition, they choose a more free silhouette than previously popular-their models still fit the hips, but lag behind the knees. The row has already been offered by a season of the pencil skirt and a-siluet skirt, which is often found in other brands of the basic wardrobe in more flowing tissues, for example, a mount or atlas.

Virzhini Viar in Chanel and Tom Ford a pencil skirt is remembered in the context of the X. In their spring collections, designers have shown that office classics may look completely different in sequins. The silhouette, emphasizing elegant forms, comfortable length, emphasis on the waist with the help of a belt is an ideal version of a skirt for a dress code of any level, from a working meeting to a gala dinner.