GAja, skorts are a great invention. But not everyone can wear them everywhere - like an office. Or to school if the school uniform doesn't include them. Stupid schools.
Re the leg hair, everyone, wait until you are 10-15 years into menopause, it just slowly disappears. Or at least it does in my family.
General look at women and fashion - let's drop clothes for a second, we have about exhausted that part of the topic. There is a pile more stuff expected of someone staying in fashion than there was 20-40 years ago. All this fancy nail polish, and little crystals in nail polish - that did not exist when I was at the fashionable age. Eyebrow threading (ouch). How much is business trying to get more things fashionable so they can make more money, and how much is a feminist backlash, I do not know - but it seems to take more effort (money and time) these days to be girly. Actually the late 60's, early 70's were easy, long straight hair for white girls, long hair for white guys, Afros for black girls and guys. (yes, I am talking people in their teens, and 20's, everyone else still looked like the 50s). Curly hair got ironed. Then Farah Fawcett hit and we all had to have hair with masses of waves and body and it has been downhill ever since.