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Once the default outfit for every human, now coded feminine by accident of fashion's whims
means A garment that hangs from the waist and covers part or all of the legs without separating them, or the act of going around the edge of something rather than through it.
from From the Old Norse 'skyrta,' meaning a shirt or kind of tunic — brought ashore by Norse settlers and snug alongside its English cousin 'shirt,' which shares the same Germanic root. The two words split duties over time: one rose to clothe the chest, the other sank to wrap the lower body. That same root carries the sense of something short or cut, which is why 'skirt' also came to mean an edge or border — and why, to 'skirt around' a problem is to travel its hem rather than cross its middle.
- male origins
- Men wore them across most of history and most cultures
- kilt cousin
- Scottish kilts are pleated skirts with a battle record
- length politics
- Hemlines reportedly rise and fall with economic booms
- word root
- Shares ancestry with shirt, both meaning short garment
- egyptian staple
- Pharaohs ruled in pleated linen kilts called shendyts
tennis skirt — worn by venus williams, serena williams, and players at wimbledon since the 1880s
scottish kilt — traditional tartan skirt worn in scotland, each clan has its own pattern
poodle skirt — 1950s fashion trend, popularized by sandra dee in grease (1978 film)