WHEN you think of the 1950s, most of us immediately think of those wonderful circle skirts and dresses with light and fluffy netting underneath for that full effect. This was certainly the iconic look ...

Little Rock's Robinson Center Exhibition Hall is packed, so crowded that extra seats have to be put out. Many in the predominantly older audience are wearing traditional square dance attire -- ruffled ...

THE circle skirt began to appear in the late 1940s, with an actress-turned-designer named Juli Lynne Charlot. After the austerity of the war, skirts began to get fuller and longer as fabric was more ...