[33girl]

It's not like the dresses are shorter than they've ever been before. They're not, if you straight out measure them. It's just that:

1) Girls wear them with skanky stilettos (as opposed to clogs or chunky heels in the 1960s and 70s or flats in the 1980s).

2) They are (in general) waaaaaaaay tighter than they used to be.

3) They are made out of shiny clingy material (as opposed to my old fave, the stretch denim miniskirt).

4) They wear them without any hose or tights.

5) They aren't following the "skimpy on one half, covered on the other half" fashion rule.

6) There are too many girls with fat asses wearing them who either shouldn't wear them at all or should know to wear a slightly different style. But if you say that nowadays you're being a "mean girl." So women run around in things that make them look like crap.

Believe me, I wore some minis in my day that were just as short and tight as these...so did my cousins back in the 1960s...we just accessorized them differently.