Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-06
HENS AND HAWS
Are Area Teens Going Va va?
By Fiji GORSKA
Editor of TEEN

Hemines are internationally on the rise.
In London girls who wear their skirts to inches
above the knee called va va girls It's expression
of approval the shortening of yeah yeah the Londoners
say.
In Victoria, British Columbia va va skirts on teen
ayers are pictured high 3year-ods party dress
But around Washington it's the Older women"
those in their 20s and early 3s the eenagerS who
are going to va va lengths Go yang the streets
of downtown Washington and you'll find they're right
1t sense the eenagers say because they put
it. the style is the young look and who would rather
look young than the older women.
But Washington area teens themselves are not ga
ga the va va look They lower the boom these
extreme rises in the height of hemlines They even
laugh the pictures from farof places of the va va
fad that's gaining an international foothold-rather
kneehold.
went extremes earlier this year and dresses
inches above the knee. The principal didn't like 1t,
reports Marian Antila Is.
There distinct disadvantages to these short skirts
Marian explains such when you bend over to get
drink of water You can't walk up steps pick things
up off the floor either This is true If your skirt
is inches above the knee" she says.
Marian says they sell lot of 2-to-3-nch- above
theknee skirts at Ocean City for walking up and down
the boardwalk.
"I have the to gun singers Skirts or
Sacks that hang the hip instead of woong the waist
but not real short SKIRT says this Bladensburg senior
Skirts look cheap too short" Marian says 81 lower
as well raise mine to get them just above or in the
middle Of my knee. Actually you can't help but be in
style because manufacturers push on you Like rufeS
You couldn't get dress without rufes for ages Every
body was in ruffles. Now it's short skirts"
Both Marian and Pat Rogers, June graduate of
Northwood High claim girls notice the length Of skirts
more than boy Girls faShionconscious, they
say.
IF you're neat and have little style, boys think
you're okay Pat says Its only your skirt is long,
down to your ankle to your thigh that the boys
would notice the length of a skirt"
The girls say they check out the fashion magazines
and their friends clothes to what's in STYLE and then
start hemmng And the shape of the legs doesn't keep
the teen-agers from wearing short skirts 1--WE seen
some pretty big knees" Pat says
Some girls to keep from hemming, roll up their
skirts at the waist belt the roll and blouse
all of It, Keeping an old skirt in style sometimes
has the ending up with only " inch OF 1O-nch
kick pleat left in the back
The short skirt season has made teen-agers nimble
and thimble fingered You usually see them now going
off to babysit with skirt dress in tow for hemmng
Janice Shannon II, Richard Montgomery High
School graduate, measures before stitching, but 1T
always out shorter And once hem 1t, that's it.
only hem once" she says. Her skirts above the
Some girls just take pot luck when they hem and
others make it rule to double whatever hem exists
That way their hemlne is even even if lengths vary
And Virginia way, Tappy Phillips, IA, of Grove
ton High draws her hemline at the kneecaps, except
when she's around the house. And Jane Donchez,
Tappys classmate thinks real short skirts look vulgar
but self-conscous in long dresses. Girls always
say shorten it teensie bit, but boys say leave it.
Toni Donchez IT, James sister, "somewhere-around-
theknee is Just back from California where she says
she plenty of va Vas.
Skirts definitely the rise here, too Pat Rogers
says She tell the difference in her winter woods
and new summer cottons. Everythings gone up she
says except her mothers hemline.
IT think it looks bad and out Of place to have g
long skirt" Pat says. But my mother doesn't worry
about these things. She's married and has family
But want to make impression and feel that lool
pretty-like the song says"
Diana Wallace IT, OF Suitland Md High, says She's
va Vas around town. but she thinks "a CIR
looks indecent if skirts too short DianaS middle
oftheknee skirt who goes to greater lengths
straight skirts, she won't look "bobbed off" But tt