{"id":31695,"date":"2011-05-24T08:33:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=31695"},"modified":"2011-05-24T08:36:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:36:26","slug":"allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-mini-skirt-knee-tickler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-mini-skirt-knee-tickler\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis\u2019 Kitsch O\u2019 The Day \u2013 Miniskirt Knee Tickler"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

So revolutionary and popular were miniskirts in the 1960’s that a plethora of accessories were made for them. This \u201cOriginal Mini- Skirt Accessory” is easily one of the more insane ones. I guess the object was to remind you you were wearing a miniskirt when, clipped to the hem line,\u00a0the little ball swinging from the 1-1\/2″ long chain bounced or tick-tocked against your knee with each step.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

The manufacturer, listed nowhere on the product or card it’s attached to, was trying to combine two late 60’s trends into one – miniskirts and peace symbols, often worn by two different groups of teenagers and young adults.<\/p>\n

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\nI think the nameless company needed to be a little more generous with the 1-1\/2″ length of the tickler if, in fact, it was to hit the knee. The only way this would’ve reached there was with a full-length above-the-knee skirt, totally taking ‘mini’ out of the equation. I’ve enhanced the Knee Tickler to about three times its actual size to demonstrate:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

It would actually take ten Knee Ticklers to reach the knee were it attached to an actual miniskirt. I mean no copyright infringement to McCalls but I’ve doctored the image to demonstrate. The Knee tickers are almost double their real size because they’d be too small to see.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I always love a product that merely capitalizes on a craze as opposed to serving any real function. And regardless of whether the little gold ball bangs against your thigh or knee, I would think it was less of a tickling effect than a bruising one after it slapped against your skin all day. It would make a better lapel pin anyway.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

But then it never could’ve had such a spectacular name.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

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So revolutionary and popular were miniskirts in the 1960’s that a plethora of accessories were made for them. This \u201cOriginal Mini- Skirt Accessory” is easily one of the more insane ones. I guess the object was to remind you you were wearing a miniskirt when, clipped to the hem line,\u00a0the little ball swinging from the … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,1051,269,87,193],"tags":[61,3232,3245,2700,2705,2701],"class_list":["post-31695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-fashion","category-gadgets","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-knee-tickler","tag-mini-skirt-accessory","tag-mini-skirt-knee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}