hemline

The stock market crash known as Black Monday in 1987 also brought with it the lengthening of hemlines.

The sun shines hotter, the days get longer, hemlines grow higher, and your legs. . . stays pale.

Women threw off the shackles of the heavily-corseted Edwardian period and hemlines became dramatically shorter for the first time.

All she needed to do was raise the hemlines, raise the heels, and leave off the wimple.

As hemlines in Korean classrooms rise, so it seems does the cost of accommodating them.

She says the current environment demands dark colours, sensible hemlines and heel heights, and minimal jewellery.

The hemline index stands for professor Taylor's observation that hemlines on women's dresses rise along with stock prices.

Short Skirts: Hemlines should not be more than three inches above the knee.

That they nag about eating habits and short hemlines is well known.

As the 2000s dawned and computer systems coped with the new millennium, markets stayed up and so hemlines followed.

The West old maxim was when women's hemlines rose, so did the economy.

Or have hemlines become the new headscarves?

In the Twenties, hemlines rose along with stock prices.

In one survey, quoted in a local paper, school hemlines have reportedly risen 10-15cm (4-6in) in the last decade.

What will the hemlines be in 2012, given the current rate?

After all, when share prices fall and hemlines follow, then a guy needs something to cheer himself up.

See, the hemlines are uneven. Please give me another one.

so if the hemlines in fall 2001 were 6 inches below the knee,