Other forms: hemlines
The hemline is the line where the bottom edge of a skirt falls. A rising hemline, above the knee hemline, hemlines dropped.
It is one of the few fashion measurements with a name, and the hemline index — the theory that skirts rise in good economies and fall in bad ones — is a famous piece of folk economics that does not hold up. Note hem, the folded edge that gives the line its name.
1nounhemlineThe line where the bottom edge of a skirt falls.
“Hemlines rose in the sixties, when the miniskirt became fashionable.”
hemline is a line on a garment.
Hem plus line. Hem comes from Old English hemm, a border or edge.
From hem + line.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA