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The true story behind the TOS mini-skirts, which were brought into existence by an idea Grace Lee Whitney’s.

Notice Nichelle’s intentionally making the skirt sneak up to be even shorter!

(From Marc Cushman’s “These are the Voyages: Volume I”)

Well that’s disappointing… Like I’m glad it wasn’t men being creepy but why would you do that? :\

Mini skirts didn’t mean the same thing in the 60s as they do today! The 60s were a time of sexual empowerment and liberation for women, and I’m sure to the women on the show the skirts smacked more of a rebellion than of objectification. And indeed, the skirts were a rebellion considering the studio didn’t think it was appropriate for women to be shown in so little clothing.

For awhile, the mini skirt was a female power symbol in the 60s: http://www.randomhistory.com/2009/05/25_miniskirt.html

So a lot of people now look at those skirts and see them as sexist, but the women on the show didn’t. Nichelle Nichols has personally spoken out about her support for the skirts and her irritation with people now trying to claim they were sexist, because they made her feel powerful and she found them functional. They were also a pretty typical example of how real women dressed back then, she says, and the studio’s regulations weren’t in-line with real women.

Context is very important when considering the TOS miniskirts!

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