Comments on: How the Miniskirt Made Fashion History

By: Sammy Davis Vintage

Sammy Davis Vintage — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:44:25 +0000

In reply to Yanique. Thank you Yanique! I plan on a post soon listing all of the vintage designers with biographical info and photos illustrating their contributions to fashion. Not enough contemporary ladies know about Ceil Chapman or Adele Simpson. You are six feet tall?! We must make a meet up group together of fashion giants!

By: Yanique

Yanique — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:16:49 +0000

Great to see you mentioning Courreges, definitely one of my FAVE vintage designers. Like you Sammy, I would have needed to make my own skirt as my 6 feet tall, but scandalous isn't so bad most of the times:-) xx Trendsetter Vintage

By: Sammy

Sammy — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:47:09 +0000

In reply to jess (jamesjake). hey JessJamesJake! Thank YOU so much for listing it! Can't wait to be in touch again. Yes the ads are crazytown. You really see the differences when you compare the years. Advertising is like, the heart and soul of culture in our country. have a beautiful day!

By: jess (jamesjake)

jess (jamesjake) — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:35:33 +0000

What a great history of the mini! Love the ads, too! Great style.

Thanks so much for including our mini!

By: Sammy

Sammy — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:43:38 +0000

Edra, thanks so much for sharing! I love how you named the light brown cappuccino, seriously, makes me want tomorrow morning to come so I can have one while wearing a mini dress at the office ;-)

By: Sammy

Sammy — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:00:58 +0000

In reply to Jane. Jane thanks for this question! If you notice in some of my modern examples of girls wearing mini skirts, a mini dress slipped into the mix, with the white pleated skirt. I would have to ask those who lived the era to be certain, but I believe both were conceived and popularized parallel to one another, however perhaps different styles of "mini dresses" were popular at one time over the other.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:59:15 +0000

This is so interesting! But what about the mini dress? Did it develop alongside the miniskirt, or did it come from somewhere else entirely?

By: Sammy

Sammy — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:37:10 +0000

I’m 5’9″ so just about EVERYTHING is a mini on me. I would have definitely needed to make my own clothing so as to avoid too much scandal. I do enough of that today! ;-)