A Group of High School Flapper Girls Pose for Formal Portrait, ca. 1925

The 1920s presented the precursor to the mini skirt as the restricting silhouettes of the 19th century relaxed into more active styles with higher hemlines to accommodate this.

By the 1920s, flapper fashion favored knee-length skirts and dresses. The same spirit of liberation would be the cause of hemlines raising again in the 1960s.