Short Skirts, Stockings and High Heels

Short skirts were all the rage in the late 60 's even if you didn't have the legs to wear one. Jean Shrimpton was the yardstick we all measured ourselves against and back then, she was considered a very skinny example. But, oh boy, did she ever cause a stir here in Australia!

Short Skirts, Stockings and High Heels

Short Skirts, Stockings and High Heels

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Short Skirts, Stockings and High Heels

Short Skirts, Stockings and High Heels

Stockings had only just changed over to the wearing of pantyhose and high heels were what woMen wore to show off their legs more advanTAGeously. Now getting the right size stocking pantyhose back then was not an exact science like it is today because the manufacturers were still coming to grips with how many sizes were actually needed to cover the majority of the woMen in the world.

They learnt very quickly that three sizes, that is small, medium and large, among women simplydidn't exist. I think they solved a few of these problems when they came up with instead of nylon because spandex spandex like its name implies, expands.

I know with wearing a short skirt and a pAir of not-well-fitting stockings balanced precariously on a pAir of overly high heels was a recipe for disaster "looking for a place to happen" for many of us.

I found my ' place to happen ' on a Sydney Harbour Ferry between Neutral Bay and Circular Quay. It was morning rush hour and everyone wanted to get off the ferry and up to the train station quickly.

It was also a wet morning and the deck stAirs were slippery. I went Down on my knees and landed amid a shoving crowd. It hurt but I wouldn't show the handsome young Policeman just how much because I was soembarrassed. Besides, I may have lost one of my false eyelashes if I had cried.

I had split my stockings right across both knees and the nylon hung like dead skin down my legs. I had lost the heel off one of those "stupidly high heels, split the crutch of my stockings and tried desperately to get away from that pushing Ferry crowd with some dignity intact.

One shoe was 5 inches higher than the other and I was hobbled by stockings that were trying to escape my legs and a short skirt rucked up around my backside trying to help them off.

Short Skirts, Stockings and High Heels