Charlot died on Sunday, according to The New York Times at her home in Tepoztlán, Mexico. She was born in New York on Oct. 26, 1922, named Shirley Agin, according to People Magazine and the Times. She ...

Carrie Robbins, whose more than 30 years as a Broadway costume designer saw her involvement in 1972’s Grease, for which she contributed the production’s signature poodle skirts, and the nuns’ habits ...

Florence Schulman, one of the original makers of the poodle skirt, passed away at age 94 this week in Reseda. The native New Yorker launched her own children’s clothing company in 1952 and would go on ...

Prom dresses have been a staple of high school culture for decades, with each era bringing unique trends to the forefront.

That's what all the girls say. The girls, in this instance, are members of the Norton Park Methodist Church in Riverside, and they'll be wearing the vintage skirts when they sing the '50s' song, ...

What do pencils and poodles have in common? Or hoops and hobbles? They're skirts, of course. For designer Christian Siriano, the skirt is a transformative piece of clothing. The options are endless: ...

The fashion world brims with origin stories. There’s Coco Chanel popularizing the little black dress in the cocktail culture of the 1920s. There’s Mary Quant staking claim to the miniskirt in London’s ...

What’s a nice Jewish viscountess to do when she has a title but no money, a party invitation but no clothes and a pair of scissors but no sewing skills? Invent the poodle skirt, of course. That, quite ...