A style of skirt which can be seen in multiple lengths form the micro-mini which stops just below the buttocks, to lengths around the middle thigh.

Ruffled mini skirt set A very short skirt with a hemline that can extend anywhere from just below the buttocks (micromini) to mid-thigh.

A very short skirt that falls well above the knees. A trend that took off in the 1960s, miniskirts have come in and out of style over the decades; some fashion experts assert that these revivals coincide with a booming stock market.

The miniskirt (often hyphenated as mini-skirt) is a skirt with a hemline well above the knees (generally 20 cm - about 8 inches - or more above knee level). Another way to tell whether a skirt is in fact a mini is to check if the wearer can reach past the hemline of the skirt with her ring and index finger while standing straight; if she cannot, it is not a mini. The mini was the defining fashion symbol of "swinging" London in the 1960s.