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Smart Women Wear Short Skirts
"Women have seized control of what they're wearing," says Ms. editor Gloria Steinem, above. And it's not just the fashion plates and the lunch bunch. Having wrestled long skirts to the ground, power women are hitching their hemlines inches above the knee. "It's more about style, less about fashion," says Gloria. Is there anywhere she wouldn't wear a short skirt? "A blizzard," she deadpans. "I never stopped wearing them." What better way to show you're a bluestocking?
Features
Smart Women Wear Short Skirts
"Women have seized control of what they're wearing," says Ms. editor Gloria Steinem, above. And it's not just the fashion plates and the lunch bunch. Having wrestled long skirts to the ground, power women are hitching their hemlines inches above the knee. "It's more about style, less about fashion," says Gloria. Is there anywhere she wouldn't wear a short skirt? "A blizzard," she deadpans. "I never stopped wearing them." What better way to show you're a bluestocking?
Short List
KAROLE ARMITACE
EFFI BARRY
ANNE BASS
KATHLEEN BATTLE
MARY BOONE
SHERRY BRONFMAN
HELEN GURLEY BROWN
PAT BUCKLEY
GRACE CODDINGTON
DIANDRA DOUGLAS
DUCHESS OF YORK
LINDSAY DUNCAN
MICA ERTEGÜN
ANN GETTY
FAWN HALL
MARIFÉ HERNÁNDEZ
TAMA JANOWITZ
DONNA KARAN
DIANE KEATON
MERCEDES KELLOGG
SHELLEY LONG
ANN MAGNUSON
LOUISE MELHADO
POLLY MELLEN
DAWN MELLO
SHEILA METZNER
JACKIE ONASSIS
JUDY PEABODY
PRINCESS STEPHANIE
PRINCESS TNT
PRINCESS OF WALES
PHYLICIA RASHAD
LINDA JOHNSON RICE
DORIS SAATCHI
MARIA SHRIVER
CARLY SIMON
TORIE STEELE
LIZ TAYLOR
BLAINE TRUMP
HEATHER WATTS
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
LALLY WEYMOUTH
ANNA WINTOUR
Holdouts
DIANE SAWYER
LIZ SMITH
Will She or Won't She?
RENATA ADLER
BROOKE ASTOR
ELAINE
KAY GRAHAM
FRAN LEBOWITZ
YOKO ONO QUEEN
NOOR OF JORDAN
SHIRLEY LORD ROSENTHAL
MARGARET THATCHER
