The Mini-skirt Craze

The Mini-skirt Craze

A good friend of mine related the following true story to me.
In the 1970s when mini-skirts were a fashion craze, she was a young 'independent' girl, wanting to keep up with the latest fashion and wear a mini-skirt.
Her mother, concerned for the maintenance of modesty, had other ideas. She verbalised it this way, "Pamela, That's not a skirt -- it's nothing more than a velcro valance! If you insist on wearing a pelmet for your panties, then it's curtains for you!"

-- Lionel Hartley
(Note: a pelmet or valance is a decorative heading to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing.)