Rah-rah skirt

The rah-rah (or ra-ra) skirt is a short flounced, layered skirt that originated in cheerleading and became a popular fashion trend among teenage girls in the early 1980s. It marked, as the Oxford Dictionary noted, the first successful attempt to revive the miniskirt that had been introduced in the mid-1960s.

Gifi Fields claimed that he co-created the rah-rah skirt with designer Angela Stone, but there are also claims that the skirt was created by Norma Kamali. Later in the 1980s, it was often worn with leather, denim or lace.

In the 1990s, the miniskirt regained popularity on its own, largely eschewing the frills of the rah-rah. The latter made a comeback in Britain in 2008, with a headline in London Lite proclaiming: "Eighties look is all the ra-rave."

Examples of the rah-rah could be seen on the covers of music albums such as Since Yesterday by Strawberry Switchblade (1984).