Skirt facts for kids

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Panelled Lehenga
Full-length skirt
Hi lo skirt
Asymmetric skirt

A skirt is a piece of clothing that hangs downwards from the waist. Different skirts have been worn in many different cultures at different times. There are skirts that are clothing for women, for men, or for both.

In modern Western / European culture skirts are usually worn by women. An exception is the kilt and the fustanella, which are traditional skirts for men that are still worn today.

Skirts are worn at semi-formal occasions, and sometimes at formal events, although a dress is more common.

Related pages

Black watch kilt
The kilt
Longyi
A man in Myanmar wearing a longyi skirt.


Images for kids

  • COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Rok met panoramische beschildering van Indonesisch landschap TMnr 6217-7

    A skirt

  • Spódnica (tył). Żywiec; PME 2887

    A full skirt of blue damask (back). Ethnographic region: Żywiec. Collection of The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw.

  • Utilkilt beige

    A man wearing an Utilikilt, 2010

  • Batik Fashion 01

    Ankle-length skirt or 'maxi,' a term introduced in the late 1960s

  • Woman in a red miniskirt and green cardigan crop

    Miniskirt, a skirt ending between knee and upper thigh. (1960s onwards)

  • A-line skirt

    A-line

  • NMA.0060085, Fashion Photo by Erik Holmén 1944

    Circle

  • Culotte skirt and interior view

    Culottes

  • Manisharora1

    Full (in motion)

  • Pleated skirt

    Pleated

  • Pink pencil skirt

    Pencil

  • Falda Jean Azul Cassoli

    Denim

  • Gazette du Bon Ton fashion plate 1914

    Hobble

  • The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis - Poodle skirt

    Poodle

  • Woman in rah-rah skirt

    Rah-rah

  • Phoenix Rising TSkirt

    T-skirt

  • Young woman in marinière, denim jacket en wrap skirt

    Wrap

  • Spiridon louis

    Fustanella

  • THE DRESSER BFW 2

    Lehenga

  • Khmer Traditional Dancing

    Sampot

  • Maninsarong crop

    Sarong

  • Fiji palace guard

    Sulu


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