The poodle skirt, especially for teen girls, also was a chance for an important style statement: I’m not wearing what my mom wore. The poodle skirt didn’t begin with poodles.

While the 1950s poodle skirt was an evolution of that voluminous look, Chrisman-Campbell sets the story straight about its popularity: "The term 'poodle skirt' comes from poodle fabric, ...

Juli Lynne Charlot, who created the circle skirt — which would later become the poodle skirt — in 1947, has died. She was 101 years old.

Downtown Howell Decades Day is primarily a chalk art competition, running 12-7 p.m. July 19 on Walnut Street between Grand ...

Your mental image of the 1950s might be reduced to a girl wearing saddle shoes and a poodle skirt, sipping a milkshake at a diner while the jukebox blares, but the decade was much broader than that.

Girls will wear pedal pushers [short pants], poodle skirts, house dresses and vintage purses, hats and gloves. Scenes will take place on the New York streets and in Albert’s office, ...

In later years, the poodle skirt became visual shorthand for the entire decade. Even now, a production of “Grease” or “Bye Bye Birdie” can scarcely be mounted without one in evidence.

The poodle skirt, especially for teen girls, also was a chance for an important style statement: I’m not wearing what my mom wore. The poodle skirt didn’t begin with poodles.

The woman who created the poodle skirt that remains a fashion icon from the 1950s, Juli Lynne Charlot, has died at the age of 101. The poodle skirt was created in 1947. Sections ...