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Byline: Dodie Kazanjian
News from the front lines of fashion usually takes a while to reach me, but the sudden rebirth of the miniskirt is inescapable, and has mobilized all my latent Leg Envy. For me, the world is divided between those of us who are on good terms with their legs and people like me, who aren't. The haves and the have-nots-women who can wear skirts and women who wear pants. A framed photograph of my older sister and me in our ballet tutus sat on a table in the living room when we were growing up, and darkened my childhood. Her legs were thin, mine were plump, and that was that. On spring runways in Milan and Paris, minis and micro-minis ruled. ...