In 1962, the Olympia Blueprint and Copy Company’s employee Linda Burkey began wearing a mid-thigh length dress to work, which her mother had created for her. Shorter hemlines had just started to appear on the fashion scene.
Daily Olympian photograph, 1962, Washington State Historical Society State Capital Museum collection, catalog C1986.43.62.8.30.1.1
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