It's flattering and a more slimming look than the extra thickness leggings would add under a skirt or dress -- the only way some schools want them to be worn.
Sometimes, Ms. Azria will wear a longer dress or skirt but accentuate her legs with an asymmetrical hemline or dramatic slits.
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Chanel CEO Maureen Chiquet looked chic in a (Chanel) sleeveless black dress with a wide skirt that hit below the knee.
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Shanghai has always been the lady in the slit-skirt qipao, the fitted Chinese dress popular in the 1920s, brought into the 21st century.
There were also ruffles as seen on the bronze mini-dress with a ruffled short skirt and the below-the-knee number with a ruffled bib bodice.
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Kardashian, who is pregnant with a child by her boyfriend Kanye West, appeared in a black silk puffy sleeveless maternity dress embellished with sequins on the skirt.
Plucked from the Dior Spring 2013 Couture runway, the Silver Linings Playbook actress chose a blush-colored drop-waist dress with exaggerated sections of flared fishtail skirt.
From various dress styles to a shirt to a skirt to a scarf or purse and even as a headscarf (pictured right), it is a staple that gives you a little less.
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An easy go-to look is a pencil skirt, button front blouse and cardigan or a simple sheath dress.
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Teachers enforce dress codes by performing random spot checks on everything from skirt length to underwear color.
The model Carolyn Murphy closed the Calvin Klein show with a navy leather dress, fitted on top then flared into a full skirt in the bottom.
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He began his show with daywear and separates with power shoulders, statements collars and sleeves, and sexy cuts like a belted velvet trench dress, a snakeskin sweatshirt, and a pony hair skirt.
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Emotional resonance aside, animation director Sean Robertson said the toughest thing to make Elizabeth look and move like a real person was her dress -- which comes with a long, flowing skirt that originally wouldn't behave.
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At the Delhi summit, Mirza also defended her dress saying that even if she wore a four-inch skirt, it was her decision and others should not have anything to do with it.
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