broomstick skirt

American  

noun

1. a full, gathered or pleated skirt that has characteristic tiny creases obtained by wetting the skirt and winding it around a broomstick to dry.

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Example Sentences

When she came out again, she had on a sacklike blouse with ripped sleeves and a broomstick skirt that brushed the top of her feet.

From Literature

Apparently triggered by a vacation trip the designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez made to Santa Fe, N.M., land of the broomstick skirt, the jackalope and the howling blue coyote, the collection either inspired a raft of imitators or blundered into a stealth trend.

From New York Times