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As I left my teens and entered the workforce of the booming 1990', it was a time when our |
Ahhhh...memories
of one of my favorite 1990's trends – the short skirt. What we girls did,
and still do, for fashion. One day, when I was a sophomore in high school,
there was a big snow storm and the bus never came to our stop so, my friends
and I decided to walk to the only house where parents who could give us a
ride to school were still home. Trudging through snow that reached my
thighs, which were exposed because I was wearing my short skirt and Keds, it
never even occurred to me that I should be wearing anything else.
economy
was soaring and the internet seemed to afford infinite opportunities for
businesses to make
obscene amounts of money. While I left the jean short skirts of my youth
behind, I replaced them with Generation X's version of the power suit: a
short skirt and long jacket.
My 50-something boss at a high energy, glossy dot-com was dismayed. When she not-so-tactfully tried to persuade me to lengthen the hems of my skirts I was perplexed; everywhere I looked I saw highly successful, professional women wearing skirts as short, or shorter, then mine.
There
was Lois Lane, an acclaimed journalist on the TV show, "Lois & Clark: The
New Adventures of Superman," who bared her legs while writing meaty news
stories and helping her superhero boyfriend fight bad guys. Ally McBeal was
an attorney who managed to win cases, earn oodles of money and date hot guys
all without ever having to cover up her quads. Last but far from least was
my favorite 90's short skirt wearing yuppie power broker, Amanda on
Melrose
Place. Why would my boss deny me one of the tools so obviously needed to be
a successful woman in the 90's – the short skirt?
As
the 90's came to a close and Clinton's free-wheeling, sex filled presidency
was replaced by an abstinence touting conservative administration, skirt
lengths seemed to magically lengthen and all of my favorite TV heroines
disappeared from prime-time.
The bare legged, money making, no-nonsense women of the 90's was encapsulated by Cake in their hit song, "Short Skirt/Long Jacket," which was released in 2001. "She is fast, thorough, and sharp as a tack. She is touring the facility and picking up slack. I want a girl with a short skirt and a lonnnnnnnnnn...lonnnnnnng jacket." That 90's girl is still here, she's just in a longer skirt.
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