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[ssha]

If more proof is needed that I am now officially OLDTM you need only consider my baffled response to my middle-school-aged step-cousin informing me yesterday that her mode of dress was the new style, and apparently everyone is wearing it. What was she wearing you ask: a long-ish white tunic t-shirt that fell just below her behind, and was trimmed

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I used to wear very, very short miniskirts

[dakiwiboid]

I'll bet that the miniskirt that I wore in 1968 that nearly caused my dad to have a stroke was (at most) about three inches longer than the wide rim you describe.

When Daddy was having his cow, Mom, who had shortened the dress, said to him calmly, "Well, Blake, that's the style." He shut up.

I never wore those shorts, however, because I hated sticking to things when I sat down.

To be honest, I don't see too much difference between opaque tights and the sort of pantyhose with a little opaque panel in the crotch which is all that so many of us have worn under our skirts on dates for years, since panties would have "spoiled the line".

On the other hand, middle school is certainly too young for those styles. A high school girl might get away with some of it. We certainly did.

Re: I used to wear very, very short miniskirts

[ssha]

If these had actually been opaque, I might agree. Or, say, if they were stretch leggings. However, they bore no resemblance to pants whatsoever, in that because they were knit, they were not entirely opaque. There were 'lines' where the knit rows stretched that were entirely transparent.

Like I said, I'm just old... I honestly thought she had not put on her bottoms yet.

[kibbles]

Sounds like the stuff we wore in the 80s!

[youngwilliam]

That's what I was thinking.

Stockings/tights without pants isn't all that far off from the Emma Peel catsuit sorts of things that one even saw back in the 1970s

[ssha]

But that stuff was usually opaque/thicker. I mean, we wore bodysuits in the early 90s with our pants, but they were opaque.

[ssha]

Those were sweater dresses that at least went to mid-thigh, though...

[cats_haven]

That's bad. What's worse is a 40-something woman with no figure to wear such a style and a pot belly trying to wear that. She flashed my youngest with a bird's eye view of her barely there panties.

Let the teenagers and skinny people wear that style. Please!

[ssha]

Well, she is a skinny teenager. I think my problem was that I mistakenly asked her what she was going to wear as her bottoms, thinking she just hadn't put them on yet. Thus, I am old and clueless.

[cats_haven]

You're not the only one. I'm old, too, according to a lot of people.

[ssha]

Well, then... solidarity sistah! ;)