While the 1950s poodle skirt was an evolution of that voluminous look, ... It made women look like little girls playing dress-up." Salie asked, "So, ...

But because the garment’s most popular incarnation sported images of poodles, all such skirts came generically to be known as poodle skirts. “When I was a teenager, every girl in the entire ...

Girl wearing a poodle skirt. Credit : Getty. Juli Lynne Charlot, the inventor of the classic circle skirt, died on March 3, The New York Times confirmed. She was 101 years old.

Your mental image of the 1950s might be reduced to a girl wearing saddle shoes and a poodle skirt, sipping a milkshake at a diner while the jukebox blares, but the decade was much broader than that.

Girls will wear pedal pushers [short pants], poodle skirts, house dresses and vintage purses, hats and gloves. Scenes will take place on the New York streets and in Albert’s office, train ...

There were also The Twist, Green Stamps, poodle skirts, central a/c, Beatlemania, tie-dying, hippies, flower power, public bomb shelters, rudimentary internet ...

The poodle skirt, especially for teen girls, also was a chance for an important style statement: I’m not wearing what my mom wore. The poodle skirt didn’t begin with poodles.

The woman who created the poodle skirt that remains a fashion icon from the 1950s, Juli Lynne Charlot, has died at the age of 101. The poodle skirt was created in 1947. Sections.