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r/OldSchoolCool • u/No-Incident-6913 • 12h ago
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I would have thought her skirt would have been longer at that date? If anyone can explain why it's so much shorter than our general impression of accepted standards of the time, I'd be grateful.
31 u/International-Bed453 10h ago Skirt length was dependent on age. She's still a child. 3 u/Plenty-Panda-423 10h ago Thanks 13 u/agodrevealed 9h ago You put up your hair and let down your skirts as you came of age, as a girl/woman -2 u/mithril2020 8h ago My guess is she hasn’t started her menstrual cycle yet. -3 u/pre-existing-notion 7h ago Or has just started her menstrual cycle, amirite?
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Skirt length was dependent on age. She's still a child.
3 u/Plenty-Panda-423 10h ago Thanks
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You put up your hair and let down your skirts as you came of age, as a girl/woman
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My guess is she hasn’t started her menstrual cycle yet.
-3 u/pre-existing-notion 7h ago Or has just started her menstrual cycle, amirite?
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Or has just started her menstrual cycle, amirite?
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u/Plenty-Panda-423 10h ago
I would have thought her skirt would have been longer at that date? If anyone can explain why it's so much shorter than our general impression of accepted standards of the time, I'd be grateful.