http://idiomation.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/rouge-your-knees/ Making sense of it all! Fri, 03 May 2013 20:09:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://idiomation.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/rouge-your-knees/#comment-2381 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:19:44 +0000 http://idiomation.wordpress.com/?p=63#comment-2381 [...] With undergarments came stockings. Forget garters! The trend was to roll your stocking. And with hemlines rising to right below the knee, the chance that someone would catch a glimpse of your rolled stocking, and even more scandalous, your knee cap, was kind of the point. Padded methods increased the girth of the roll so the stockings would become more noticeable, as described in Threaded’s Stocking Series, Part 4: The Rebellious Roll Garters. In fact, a Paramount silent film from 1927 starring Louise Brooks was even named after the phenomenon. And of course, there’s the classic line from the song “All That Jazz” in the 1975 Kander & Ebb musical Chicago, “I’m going to rouge my knees and roll my stockings down,” that solidified rolled stocking as a cultural touchstone as well as what might be an urban legend and sexual innuendo about flappers rouging their knees. [...]

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