Her 'rule of thumb' (pun intended) is that a mini skirt's hem should not be any shorter than a wearer's thumb when the hands are at the side. I actually think, however, that you have to see the wearer and the garment and that rules like that don't always apply across the board. Plus, the thumb line can be pretty short.
Ancient historians from both China and Rome noted the use of white flags to signal surrender. In the former empire, the tradition is believed to have originated with the reign of the Eastern Han dynasty (A.D 25-220), though it may be somewhat older. The Roman writer Cornelius Tacitus mentions a white flag of surrender in his Histories, first published in A.D. 109.
The Division of the States During the Civil War. The 34-star, prewar flag of 1861 symbolized an expanding Union. In the last decade the nation had leapfrogged over the prairies and mountains to admit California and Oregon; on the eve of Lincoln's inauguration Kansas came into the fold. Moreover, the Eighth Census, taken in 1860 revealed a country expanding in directions other than geographical.