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 Why the mini skirt falls shorter than its hemline In a technologically developing world, it’s become difficult to avoid the never-ending cyclone of trends. And with that, the terms and labels promoting them. The trad-wife, trophy-wife, sugar baby and so on. I think within this context, the most surprising to me would have to be the ‘stay at home girlfriend’. A term previously pegged to the wife, now introduced to younger women and girls as an aesthetic. With day in the life videos, glamourising the low difficulty lifestyle of looking after their boyfriend.  I think it’s safe to say we’re fast approaching a return to a conservative priority within our lives — with women at the epicentre. From having prided ourselves on the awareness we had begun to demonstrate towards advancing women’s freedoms, from flappers in the 20s, to fourth wave feminists. Have we now fallen short?  If we take our first example of flapper girls in the 20s, characterised by short hair, short skirts,...