Lost 1950s Skirts Every Woman Owned (That Are Coming Back In Style)

In 1955, a girl stood on the kitchen table in her stocking feet while her mother crawled around her with a mouthful of pins and a little chalk marker - puff, turn, puff - measuring the hem the same height from the floor all the way around.

Nearly every closet in the country held skirts measured exactly that way. And this fall, almost all of them are hanging in the stores again: the pleated plaid with the big safety pin, the gray flannel, the pencil skirt with the slit in the back, the full cotton skirt sewn from printed feed sacks, the broomstick skirt you dried twisted around a broom, the culottes that were secretly pants, the bubble skirt, the midi.

And one of them was invented in a single night, in 1947, by a young woman who couldn't sew.

💬 Who hemmed your skirts - your mother, your grandmother, an aunt with a mouthful of pins? Write her name below. Let's give those women the credit nobody gave them at the time.