The youngest girls darted about on bare feet, too, in short dresses that sometimes failed to cover their knees.

Uniform regulations restrict girls to wearing skirts that cover their knees.

Oh, some soul-searching is inevitable as women decide whether to bare or cover their knees and by how much.

Today she was not wearing the red skirt, but a short apron that barely covered her knees.

Even at the deepest point, the rippling water barely covered his knees.

She sat down and made sure her skirt was pulled down to cover her knees.

Because he knelt to pray so often, thick scabs covered his knees.

That a bank president might prefer to cover her knees does not interest the designer, who prefers short skirts for evening, too.

She got up, holding her skirt modestly down to cover her knees.

Just a year ago, fashion designers declared that short skirts were back and that no woman should even think of covering her knees.