1.   But fashion, as always, changed and the short skirt fell - literally - from favour and started skimming the ankles.

2.   But fashion, as always, changed and the short skirt fell -- literally -- from favour and started skimming the ankles.

3.   Pencil-thin skirts skimmed the ankle at Romeo Gigli.

4.   Everything skimmed the ankles.

5.   They slipped into sheaths skimming the ankle, in porcelain prints, with bare backs under a cobweb of tiny gold chains.