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The skirt that lets you stride like royalty while hiding the fact you didn't shave.
means An adjective or standalone noun for the ankle-length, floor-sweeping version of a garment — especially a skirt, dress, or coat.
from Clipped from 'maximum,' arriving in fashion speak in the late 1960s as the long-hemline answer to the miniskirt. 'Mini' and 'maxi' entered as a matched pair of opposites, borrowing Latin's minimus (smallest) and maximus (largest) to describe not size but length of fabric — proof that the 60s needed a word for 'long skirt' badly enough to just grab the Latin for 'biggest' and run.
- origin
- Shortened from maxiskirt in late 1960s fashion
- counterpart
- Named in opposition to the mini, obviously
- length rule
- Hem grazes the ankle, not the floor
- secret power
- Pairs with pajama top, nobody can tell