The amusement parks of the 50s and 60s didn't have hi tech rides that give an instant adrenalin rush. They did have a fun house which, when you made your way through, had rooms with sloping floors, walls that weren't square and mirrors that distorted your image. In one of these house there was a slightly raised walkway adjoining one room to another and this was within sight of the passing public. Crowds would gather as the fun house ladies provided innocent entertainment. As they walked across the gantry, compressed air shoots upwards and lifts the ladies skirts, hopefully revealing their underwear. Film of that era had the same idea. Any catfight would require the ladies to battle with skirts riding high, showing their legs. The Carry On films knew the value of this. In my opinion the best fight happened in Carry on Camping. The shot shows the pupils sitting room of a private girls school. Excited girls cheer and encourage as two pupils played by Barbara Wibdsor and Anna Karen are fighting. Barbara is driven back an falls in a chair, legs art as her skirt flies up to show her knickers and suspenders. As Barbara climbs out she grabs at an escaping Karen, catching her skirt and revealing Karen's knickers. Although a comedy the fight was played straight and had everything which is exciting about a girl fight.
A lady once told me that women got a thrill if they saw up another's skirt, indeed you often hear them saying 'she was showing all she'd got'. A fight on the net showed girls on a drunken night out. One was on the ground, her opponent facing her, her ight skirt had ridden up above her hips in the struggle. Both were showing all they'd got. The view must have been a thrill and a boost to both ladies as they came back together to continue their scrap.
