
This dress has two features that are debating: the arms are completely bare and the pleated skirt stops above the knee. It is then the figure skating , at the Olympic Winter Games of 1928 in Saint-Moritz where the NorwegianSonja Henie , the young figure skating diva , presents herself for the first time in a short skirt, and is causing a sensation with her daring and liberated movements when wearing the long skirt. After the Second World War , Marilyn Monroe , perpetuating her role of “sexy and provocative” icon , appears in a short skirt well above the knee