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Why would you want to wear a pencil skirt? Restrictive and need to fit really well to work and look OK. Why would you want to bother? And yet I have some pencil skirts, 24'' to 31'' in length, and I love wearing them. The ones I have fit close around my waist and hips are not unduly restrictive with...

I have a mini retractable tape measure which I try to remember to have with me if I am shopping at charity (thrift) shops. Even if you cannot try things on you should be able to measure the clothes. Most sewing shops in the UK seem to stock these mini retractable tape measures and they only cost a f...

All good points although I do feel we can get overly hung up on the barriers. As has been noted on this site denim skirts tend to be an easy going way in. The story goes (Urban Myth) that denim skirts became a major clothing item with the hippy movement of the 60's & 70's, the story is that some...

The link between skirts and gender does seem very embedded in our culture, there has recently been some discussion about allowing boys to wear skirts at school. Much of the discussion seems to assume that any boy wearing a skirt is trying to be a girl. Bridget Phillipson our UK education minister wa...

'Skirts........why bother'? seems to be the opinion of many ladies these days, many of the ladies I know wear jeans or leggings, sometimes with leggings they will wear a long tunic top or a long jumper. If the weather warms up they may wear shorts or for a posh event they may have a summer dress but...

''I have tended to find that a plain denim or corduroy skirt in black, navy etc with boots and socks and a masculine sweater or jacket results in little more than the odd second glance. That's it.'' Yes indeed that does seem to be generally how it goes. The story (urban - myth?) is that denim skirt...

Unfortunately, in recent years, gender differentiation between boys and girls has got worse not better. When our grandsons, now aged 6, go to a birthday party, the party bags given out at the end are strictly demarcated on gender lines, one of our grandsons loves the colour yellow and asked for a ye...

A Rose by any other name I do have a variety of skirts but am commonly found in something denim, A line and about 25-26''long. On a number of occasions people have referred to my Denim Skirt as a kilt. I guess they are using the word kilt to 'get their head around' the idea of a many wearing a non b...

It is interesting to note that this sort of discussion has been going on for some years, I have only just seen that between the wars there was a Men's Dress Reform Party in the UK. https://www.joannabourke.com/post/male-beauty-the-male-dress-reform-party-in-interwar-britain I have also seen somewher...

It is a pertinent point, I have noted that the actual sizes linked to female dress sizes have grown over the year,s a modern size 12 skirt will have bigger waist and hips compared to a vintage size 12 skirt. I have a waist size of 32'' and hips 38'', this generally equates to a size 12, sometimes a ...

Not so much a new member but more of a returnee after a long absence due to ....................stuff..............but enough of that. Today I was wearing a knee length denim skirt at our North Devon village Christmas fair, as far as I could tell nobody batted an eyelid and everyone was quite happy ...

I generally wear knee length or slightly longer skirts and as the weather cools, I am starting to wear long socks or leggings with my skirts. This leaves me feeling I need something more. I have fought shy of wearing a slip with a skirt, slips seem so ultra feminine, slinky, slippery and often decor...