Skort

[Victoria Neufeldt]

I seem to remember considering this for the Gage Canadian Dictionary
(copyright '83).  Skorts were a big fashion item in the 70s, with no
ref to cycling, and they weren't stretchy (don't think they made
"stretchy" back then, except for bathing suits); they were just a
short skirt attached to shorts or sometimes even just a front panel
open on one side, for the look of a wraparound skirt.  I can't really
remember why it didn't get entered, but it was most likely that we
didn't want to use precious space for ephemeral fashion terms.

Victoria

Victoria Neufeldt
727 9th Street East
Saskatoon, Sask.
S7H 0M6
Canada
Tel: 306-955-8910

On Thursday, July 04, '02, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> SKORT
>
>    From ALASKA AIRLINES magazine, July 2002, pg. 65, col. 2:
>
>    Another hot-seller for female mountain bikers is the
> flattering "skort,"
> which combines stretchy cycling shorts with a wraparound skirt.
>
>    There are many hits for "skort," but I did not see it in
> trademark
> records.  Google has it from 1992, with indicatings that it
> was used in
> cycling in the 1960s.
>    It's not in OED.
>