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6 unusual facts about Skirt


Ayaka Umeda

As part of Team K 1st Stage, she was a front member for the song "Skirt, Hirari", along with Sayaka Akimoto, Yuko Oshima, Sae Miyazawa, and Kana Kobayashi.

Heart Electric

The song was done by RoopSounds, who had previously done "Skirt, Hirari".

Skirt

T-skirt, made from a T-shirt, the T-skirt is generally modified to result in a pencil skirt, with invisible zippers, full length two-way separating side zippers, as well as artful fabric overlays and yokes.

A straw-woven skirt dating to 3,900 B.C. was discovered in Armenia at the Areni-1 cave complex.

Skirt and dress

Skirt, a tube- or cone-shaped garment which hangs from the waist

Skirt, Hirari

They made their first appearances on TV music programs to perform as a group of singers, such as "Music Station", "Music Fighter", etc. on June 9, two days after the release of CD.


Bad Aussee

For women, this consists of a Dirndl, a type of dress with a fitted bodice and full skirt.

Bill Gibb

Beatrix Miller of Vogue selected one of Gibb's designs for Baccarat, a pleated tartan skirt and printed blouse worn with a Kaffe Fassett knitted waistcoat, as the 1970 Dress of the Year.

Brandon Boyd

Other tattoos include his parents' names (Priscilla and Charles) on his forearms, an owl on his back, one teardrop on his index finger on both hands, and a picture inspired by Aubrey Beardsley's famous art, "The Peacock Skirt", on his left arm.

Cabbage Patch Kids

Sarah Palin was depicted in a trademark suit and skirt with high heeled pumps.

Coatlicue statue

The Coatlicue statue is a 2.7 metre (8.9 ft) tall andesite statue usually identified with the Aztec goddess Coatlicue ("snakes-her-skirt").

Fiat Seicento

A 'Michael Schumacher' edition of the Sporting, with ABS and the Abarth styling kit, was also launched at this time to celebrate the Ferrari driver's Formula One success, This model was almost identical to the Abarth kit with the exception of chrome gear stick surrounds and Michaels signature on the boot lid and side skirt.

Four Seasons of Love

Pics included "Winter" in a fur with a tear on her cheek; "Spring" in a Scarlett O'Hara style hoop skirt on a swing; and "Autumn" re-enacting Marilyn Monroe's infamous scene from The Seven Year Itch with the billowing white dress over the subway grate - an allusion to her song "Love to Love You Baby", which she has been quoted as using Monroe for inspiration on her recording of it.

Gagra choli

Ancient unstitched form of gagra has survived in folk theater costumes across India, particularly in Kathakali of Kerala, where layers of pleated khadi fabric are laid over a nada and tied around the waist creating layers of flared skirt.

Gaslit

InStyle praised the fashions displayed throughout the episode, praising Taylor Momsen in Zero Maria Corejo coat, an Alexander Wang sweater, a BCBG skirt, Spanx tights, Cleobella bag, Tania Spinelli boots, and Courtney Lee Collection necklace.

Happening bar

Happening bars and couple kissas skirt around Japanese prostitution laws by neither providing nor promising actual sex on premises, instead stressing that what may or may not happen is entirely up to customers.

Hauraki Primary School

The uniform includes a silver shirt/blouse, green shorts/ skirt (skirts are styled to the Westlake Girls High School skirts) grey socks, plain black sandals/polishable black lace up shoes and a hat.

Hikari no Densetsu

For example: In the eighth volume of the manga series the author makes a parody of popular 80s singer Cyndi Lauper by drawing Hikari with the same hairstyle, skirt, and posture that the singer had on the She's So Unusual album cover.

Hobble

Hobble skirt, a skirt with a narrow enough hem to significantly impede the wearer's stride

Hovertrain

Jean Bertin was an early advocate of the hovercraft, and had built a series of multi-skirt transport vehicles for the French army known as the "Terraplane" in the early 1960s.

Kathak

The design is akin to a chudidaar kameez, but is somewhat tighter fitting above the waist, and the 'skirt' portion explicitly cut on the round to enhance the flare of the lower half during spins.

La Delgadina

Her father instructs her to wear her silk skirt (nagua de seda in spanish) to travel to Morelia to church mass.

Lilí Álvarez

In 1931, she shocked the staid tennis world by playing at Wimbledon in a divided tennis skirt specially made by designer Elsa Schiaparelli that was the forerunner of shorts (pictured).

Lipstick lesbian

In 1990, the gay newspaper OutWeek covered the Lesbian Ladies Society, a Washington, D.C.–based social group of "feminine lesbians" that required women to wear a dress or skirt to its functions.

Liz Claman

In 1999, the author Matthew Klam, writing in The New York Times Magazine, referred to Claman as "the giant swimsuit model in a tight skirt and sweater set".

María Clara gown

The saya is a skirt shaped like a bubble with a length that begins from the waist reaching the floor.

Mirrorman

Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist, nicknamed Mirrorman after being arrested for an incident involving a hand mirror, an escalator, and a high school girl's skirt

Multistage rocket

The trio of rocket engines used in the first stage of the American Atlas I and Atlas II launch vehicles, arranged in a "row", used parallel staging in a similar way: the outer pair of engines existed as a jettisonable pair which would, after they shut down, drop away with the lowermost outer "skirt" structure of the booster, leaving the central "sustainer" engine to complete the first stage's engine burn towards apogee or orbit.

Red Rat

Red Rat's debut album, Oh, No.. It's Red Rat (1997) featured songs such as "Shelly Ann", "Dwayne", "Tight-up Skirt", "Cruise" (featured in the movie The Big Hit), and "Big Man, Little Yute".

Rosa María Ojeda

The skirt of the costume depicted scenes from the Cristero War, a Roman Catholic rebellion in the 1920s in which thousands of people were killed, including hangings.

Sheela na gig

Andersen reproduces a plate from La Fontaine's Nouveaux Contes (1674) showing a demon being repulsed by the sight of a woman lifting her skirt to display her genitals.

Shim Mina

She initially found instant fame as "Miss World Cup" at the 2002 FIFA World Cup; when pictures of her with the "Be The Reds!" bandanna around her chest and the Korean flag used as a skirt were beamed around the world.

Shirley Jameson

Her feminine uniforms included a knee-length skirt, and to top it all off they had a Charm School directed by Helena Rubinstein, who, with her chain of beauty salons, was synonymous with the feminine ideal.

Ted Lapidus

Lapidus proved influential outside France, too, and was the first designer to persuade Twiggy to wear a suit and tie rather than a mini-skirt.

Tepoztlán

Fashion designer Juli Lynne Charlot the creator of the first Poodle skirt lives in Tepoztlán.

The Seller

This intimate team went on location to Frazier Park and continued to skirt the city in the desert area around El Mirage, Victorville and Lancaster.

Touch of Eva

For the scene involving Blair helping Eva choose a charity, Meester was dressed in a bright belted Reem Acra shirtdress and Poésy wore a chic navy and white flowered skirt and a classic tan bag.

Underskirt

Petticoat, an undergarment to be worn by women under a skirt, dress or sari

William Acker

In 2007, Acker recommended that the U.S. Attorney charge Richard Scruggs and the Scruggs Law Firm with criminal contempt for leaking documents in violation of a court order; in 2008, he accused Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood of conspiring with Scruggs to skirt the court order.

Witch Yoo Hee

She sees him at a college reunion but is completely embarrassed when her friend (Sae Ra) pulls down her skirt and Yoo Hee is wearing Minnie Mouse boxers.


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