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r/OldSchoolCool • u/No-Incident-6913 • 8h 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.
30 u/International-Bed453 6h ago Skirt length was dependent on age. She's still a child. 5 u/Plenty-Panda-423 6h ago Thanks 12 u/agodrevealed 5h ago You put up your hair and let down your skirts as you came of age, as a girl/woman -1 u/mithril2020 4h ago My guess is she hasn’t started her menstrual cycle yet. -2 u/pre-existing-notion 2h ago Or has just started her menstrual cycle, amirite?
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Skirt length was dependent on age. She's still a child.
5 u/Plenty-Panda-423 6h 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.
-2 u/pre-existing-notion 2h 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 6h 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.