The Fashion Portal

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There are many kind of skirts which are/were famous:

• Hobble skirt, long and tight skirt with a narrow enough hem to significantly impede the wearer's stride
• Poodle skirt, a circle or near-circle skirt with an appliqued poodle or other decoration (1950s)
• Kilt, a wrap-around skirt with overlapping aprons in front and pleated around the back. Though traditionally designed as women's wear, it is fashioned to mimic somewhat closely the general appearance of a (man's) kilt, including the usage of a plaid pattern more or less closely resembling those of recognized tartan patterns of Scotland.
• Miniskirt, a thigh-length skirt, and micromini, an extremely short version (1960s)
• Sarong, a square of fabric wrapped around the body and tied on one hip to make a skirt; worn as a skirt or as a cover-up over a bathing suit in tropical climates. Traditional wear in Bali, Indonesia and many other south east Asian countries

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Things you can do

• Article requests: Trina Turk Tory Burch Fashion line, d'Orsay (shoe), Juliet cap, Guard's coat, Covert coat, Camelhair Polo coat, Balmacaan (coat), Burn-out, Theatrical costume, Creative director (fashion), all the designers that are red-linked on Fall 2008 fashion weeks -- see the list of fashion topics for more fashion terms in need of articles
• Fix issues with articles in Category:Fashion articles needing attention and Category:Fashion articles needing expert attention
• Upload requested photographs of fashion, requested photos of clothing and cosmetics
• Create infoboxes for clothing companies, and editors (should include original designer/magazine, current designer/magazine, etc)
• Split designer and label articles. Oscar de la Renta -> Oscar de la Renta (designer), Oscar de la Renta (fashion label)
• Expand Fashion week, Dolce & Gabbana, other articles in Cat:fashion stubs
• Improve Laura Dahl by adding an image and cleanup to warrant removal of COI.
• Translate History of clothing, Clothing in ancient Rome, and Clothing in the ancient world from French
• Re-make the Jacket article. Jackets are important, and this is really poor at the moment. We should remove some of the non-notable items on the list, at the very least contain the mess in a separate list article, write about jackets, and have a sorted list
• Improve 1945-1960 in fashion, 1960s in fashion, 1970s in fashion, 1980s in fashion, 1990s in fashion, and 2000s in fashion to be up to the quality of the other fashion history articles.
• Encourage editors who refer to 'current fashion' or similar to include a reference date. When such an entry is found, update it if needed with a reference date if such can be established. An example, as of 14 Aug 08, is the article on Henley shirt.

Or see Wikipedia:WikiProject Fashion for more!

Did you know...

...that the origin of the word fashion comes from the Latin word facio, meaning to make?

...that the war bonnet was a headdress worn by the Plains Indians where each of the feathers represented single achievements the wearer had made?

...that in Japan professional kimono dressers still help women put on kimono, usually for special occasions, and that the dressers must be licensed?

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