Tanya Gold Tanya Gold

Only prigs wear mini-skirts

The misogynist mayor of an Italian town has his sights set on the wrong target

Uncle Norman likes to talk about the year the mini-skirt was born. (The name has been changed to protect him.) It was 1965 and he was a law student living in Chelsea. And when the skirt arrived, he took a year off university, and spent it on the No. 22 bus on the King’s Road, following women up the stairs.

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