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Unlike other women landing from the steamers, she was neither short-skirted nor bloomer-clad.
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There's a post-Spice Girls sense of short-skirted girl power about the project, which Clarke admits was tailormade to keep the lads 'mags readers on board but which I found increasingly grating; can scenes of sapphic exhibitionism really be passed off as female empowerment?
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010
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Her dress was of the mountaineering sort, short-skirted and scant, allowing the greatest play with the least material, and withal gray of color and modest.
CHAPTER 3 2010
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Pig-tailed, short-skirted and rolling around in a way her neglectful parents should have warned against, she offered many a flash of knicker to the front-row prommers.
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Peach tells Papa Gunn that she's making a short-skirted dress.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 4 Recap: That Darn Hat 2010
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"Kate Middleton wears Penelope Chilvers classic Long Tassel Boot," points out Chrystal PR ? with admirable simplicity in the circumstances ? alongside a fetching photograph of a short-skirted Ms Middleton in the boots.
The royal wedding PR goldrush Stephen Moss 2010
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Dressed in a short-skirted black suit, adorned only by a knockout of an emerald ring, matching ear bobs and a few inconspicuous tattoos, Jolie looks both unattainably gorgeous and improbably of-this-world.
Action figure: Angelina Jolie is out to prove she's an actress worth her 'Salt' 2010
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He returned dazed and shaken by the wave of bacchic revelry released in America and Europe at the end of world War I, treating Pearl and her mother to hair-raising stories of lewd, raucous, short-skirted, hard-drinking modern youth: ‘every-where I went they all had their dresses up to their knees.’
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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He returned dazed and shaken by the wave of bacchic revelry released in America and Europe at the end of world War I, treating Pearl and her mother to hair-raising stories of lewd, raucous, short-skirted, hard-drinking modern youth: ‘every-where I went they all had their dresses up to their knees.’
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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Exquisitely clad in short-skirted Chanel suits, both Mrs. Buckley and Mrs. Brown had what looked to me to be the most enormous knees and tiny little legs imaginable.
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