Vol. 10 · Portmanteaus ·Late 20th century ·1971
Skort
skirt shorts
- Meaning
- A garment with the look of a skirt and the underlying structure of shorts.
- Source words
- skirt + shorts
- Coined by
- collective
- Year
- 1971
Background
First documented in a Butterick sewing-pattern catalogue. The garment itself is older; the name made it a marketable category and survived tennis-wear fashion cycles.
Late 20th century
Marketing, media, and the early internet. Infomercial, emoticon, workaholic — the coinages name phenomena of mass media and white-collar life. Several predate the decades they're associated with.
Two words, one coinage.
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