The rise of the midi skirt occurred in reaction to women's need to wear comfortable outfits that would allow them to perform tasks previously performed by men, who were at the time in World War I. . These were buttoned skirts, with a wide hem, rigid, with a trapeze line and austere due to the international context.

In the jazz age, midi skirts experienced the boom of women's liberation, accompanied by the designs of the legendary French designer Paul Poiret, who had been on the scene since the founding of his maison in 1903. Still, there were also models spacious that exuded femininity, decorated with lace, delicate flowers, colored stripes or geometric prints. In the thirties, a time marked by the glory of Hollywood, the skirts were located below the knees, with pleats and unmarked pleats, straight satin at the beginning of the decade and then somewhat narrower.

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In those gloomy days of World War II, the flared skirt, in some cases of fine wool in a dull green or brown color, was the most popular. In 1941 austerity forced the industry to adapt to the scarcity of materials in the face of social pressure that forced them to abandon their previous splendor and this is when the skirts rise to barely cover the knees. The legendary French couturier, a decade later, would create tubular skirts below the knee and in the era of the miniskirt they managed to be just as popular as these, made of wool and with striped or patchwork designs.

History of maxiskirts