Skirt

A **skirt** is a piece of clothing that hangs downwards from the waist.
Different skirts have been worn in many different cultures at different times. There are skirts that are clothing for women, for men, or for both.

In modern Western / European culture skirts are usually worn by women. An exception is the kilt and the fustanella, which are traditional skirts for men that are still worn today.

Skirts are worn at semi-formal occasions, and sometimes at formal events, although a dress is more common.

The bottom part of a dress can also be called a skirt.

## History 
 of Ramaat, an important person, wearing an Egyptian kilt, 2.250 BC]]
Skirts have been worn by people for a very long time in the past.

A skirt made out of straw from 3.900 BC was found in Armenia. In ancient Egypt, men and women have worn skirts.

In the Bronze Age, the people in the South of West and Central Europe used clothes that go around the body like dresses. In Northen Europe, people wore skirts and blouses.

In the Middle Ages, men and women also used clothes like dresses. The bottom part of the dress for men were shorter than the dresses that women wore.

Today, skirts are still used by men and women. Such skirts are the lungi, lehnga, kanga, sarong which is used in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The kilt is used in Scotland and Ireland.

The Chinese were one of the early societies who wore miniskirts, which are short skirts.

### 1900s 
In the 1900s, the dresses worn by Western women had more types than other years. The waistline of the dresses moved from under the breasts to the natural waist. Skirts were narrow at first, but they slowly became wider, particularly in the 1860s.

The "rainy daisy" skirt came in the 1980s, where the bottom of the skirt stopped touching the floor. This would give idea to the modern skirts with shorter lengths.

In the 1920s, short skirts had become famous. The longer skirts came back in 1930, before shorter skirts were used in war times because there were limits on fabric.

In the years of 1967 to 1970, skirts became very short, where the bottom of the skirt was up to the bottom of underwear.

## Types of skirts 
* An *A-line skirt* is a skirt which looks like the letter A. It is wider at the bottom.
* A *bell-shaped skirt* looks like a bell. It becomes wider nearer to the top.
* A *circle skirt* is a skirt made by cutting a circle in the middle of fabric for the waist of the person.
* *Culottes* are a pair of shorts, but looks like a skirt.
* *Full skirts* are skirts with much fabric in the waist part.
* *Gored skirts* are fit at the waistline. They become wider at the bottom.
* An *inverted pleated skirt* is a skirt made by putting together two parts of fabric in the middle of the skirt, at the front or the back.
* *Maxi skirts* are skirts that end at the ankle, used in the 1960s against the miniskirt.
* *Poodle skirt*, a circle skirt showing a poodle for decoration.

* *Puffball skirts* are skirts which are held at the bottom to create a round look.
* *Rah-rah skirts* are short skirts with many levels of fabric.
* A *sarong* is a square or rectangular piece of fabric worn around the body. It can be worn by both men and women.
* A *scooter skirt* or a *skort* is a skirt which has a shorts joined. It can also be shorts with a piece of fabric joined in front to make it look like a skirt.
* *Skater skirts* are skirts which have a waist that is higher. The bottom ends on top of the knee. It is often made out of light fabric to make it look like skirts of a figure skater.
* A *squaw dress* is made out of one or two parts. It is based on Native American clothing and is popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
* A *swing skirt* is tight at the hips but wide at the bottom.
* A *T-skirt* is a skirt made from a T-shirt.
* *Tiered skirts* are made out of several levels, and each level gets more wide than the one above it.
* A *prairie skirt* has one or more than one levels.
* A *trouser skirt* is a straight skirt which has a top part that looks like men's trousers.

## Lengths of skirts 

File:Batik Fashion 01.jpg|Ankle-length skirt (maxi skirt)
File:Dark Girl 2.jpg|Mid-calf length (midi skirt)
File:Woman in a red miniskirt and green cardigan crop.jpg|Miniskirt, a skirt ending between the knee and upper thigh.
File:Microskirt (Karmen Pedaru at Anna Sui crop).png|Microskirt, an extremely short miniskirt.
File:Hi lo skirt.jpg|High-low/hi-lo skirt, a skirt with an asymmetrical bottom.

## Gallery 

File:Woman wearing blue blouse and wool mini skirt.jpg|Miniskirt.
File:Black watch kilt.JPG|The kilt
File:Woman in rah-rah skirt.jpg|A woman in a rah-rah skirt.
File:Longyi.jpg|A man in Myanmar wearing a *longyi* skirt.

## References
## Related pages 
*Miniskirt
*Trousers