In Ms. Quant's interpretation, though, as well as that of André Courrèges and Pierre Cardin (haute couture's progenitors of the mini), short, typically A-line skirts worn with heavy tights rendered the female body prepubescently geometric, androgynous.
Mini and micro-mini – short skirts.
"Girls in Paris can wear dresses, mini-shorts, whatever.
In Paris, where Mr. Young just opened a boutique, women wear these boots with a tunic or denim mini-shorts.
Sandie Shaw beats that by flashing her still enviable legs while wearing pink Union Jack mini-shorts.
Sandie Shaw steals the show, dressed in a fringed pink Union Jack-patterned robe and mini-shorts, the kind of thing you might well hallucinate on acid.
The day will come when Parisians decree that mini-shorts with leopard-skin bomber jackets and studded ballet flats are the best things since sliced bread".
In a scene lifted from "Cool Hand Luke," she also washes cars in a pair of mini-shorts, under the eyes of salivating males, yet she fails to win the love of the new teacher, Scott Delacorte Justin Timberlakee), who prefers Miss Squirrel.
It shows two women wearing the niqab with mini-shorts and high heels, strutting the streets of Paris to the Piaf-like strains of Colette Renard purring Les Nuits d'Une Demoiselle.
And it was the youth — young women, mostly — who were out on the streets around Capitol Hill, wearing bright-pink "I Stand with Planned Parenthood" T-shirts on top of mini-shorts and long, skinny legs.
