Skirt management

[oggbashan]

The current local fashion for women of almost all ages appears to be tiered skirts in all lengths from mini to floor.

The older women who would have worn the floaty fashions of the 1980s seem to have no trouble with managing their full skirts. However the younger women who were wearing short denim skirts a couple of months ago seem to have no idea.

I have seen skirts hanging out of car doors and dragging on the ground, skirts caught in doors (revolving doors seem the worst), heels caught on hems, and skirts trailed into dog-shit when sitting down at tables at picnic sites. Some of the women seem less skilled than a just-out-of-the-closet transvestite.

I have been enjoying the view when the wind blows and locally it blows almost every day which is why a wind farm is nearing completion off-shore.

Any tips on how lightweight tiered skirts should be managed?

I think there is a story in there somewhere.

Og

PS. Some of them are also making Princess Diana's mistake - wearing a lightweight skirt that is transparent against the sun with nothing underneath, not even a thong. It's bad for Og's ancient heart.

 

[wishfulthinking]

I love fashion at the moment. Very feminine, with pretty colours and sparkly things - even on the simplest T.

Less skirt management but more practical tip (something every gal knows, but you guys may not be in the know) - make sure you have pretty panties on in case the skirt flies up.

 

[Guest]

I love fashion at the moment. Very feminine, with pretty colours and sparkly things - even on the simplest T.

Less skirt management but more practical tip (something every gal knows, but you guys may not be in the know) - make sure you have pretty panties on in case the skirt flies up.

Panties?

 

[Dar~]

You can make that pretty Sarah.

 

[Guest]

You can make that pretty Sarah.

Thank you.

 

[Brinnie]

really no onw fucken cares.

 

[scheherazade_79]

Og, I love you!

I don't know many people other than you who'd notice something like that! Thank you for bringing a smile to my face today

 

[Black Tulip]

PS. Some of them are also making Princess Diana's mistake - wearing a lightweight skirt that is transparent against the sun with nothing underneath, not even a thong. It's bad for Og's ancient heart.

What makes you think that is a mistake?

Less skirt management but more practical tip (something every gal knows, but you guys may not be in the know) - make sure you have pretty panties on in case the skirt flies up.

My advice exactly.

 

[McKenna]

And lift and tuck and smooth and bunch
and repeat ..2..3..4..5..6..7..8...



I'm with WishfulThinking... I love the feminine turn fashion has taken this summer. It's great to be a girl!

 

[oggbashan]

BT - It's a mistake if it is unintentional and actually embarrassing to the skirt wearer. If it is deliberate and the wearer only pretends to be embarrassed that is different. Most windblown skirts reveal less than the short denim skirts that are still worn.

I like the current fashion. It is much more flattering to the average figure than jeans.

By the end of this summer I expect that the local ladies will have learned how to manage their skirts properly. Like riding a bicycle, once the skill is learned, I suspect it is never forgotten. Perhaps next year's brides will be able to manage their wedding gowns better than last year's.

I forgot to mention riding a bicycle in these skirts. Ladies' bicycles used to have chain guards, mudguards and plastic skirt guards. Now so-called all-terrain bicycles have no guards at all. Unless the tiered skirt is tucked into the lady's panties, which assumes that the lady is wearing panties large enough to hold a bunched skirt, the skirt is likely to be dragged into the wheel or the chain. Riding a bicycle in a long full skirt is an almost forgotten art. I remember ladies going shopping on bicycles when I was very young and the Dior 'New Look' had reached the local High Street. Riding and dismounting from a ladies' bicycle was performed with elegance and grace, perhaps learned from their Edwardian mothers who wore skirts with weighted hems.

Aside: I once danced several Rock and Roll numbers with a young lady who wore a full circle skirt with weighted hems. My shins were bruised by the encounter. She admitted that the mid-calf length hems of her skirt and outermost petticoat had lead strips sewn in and the total weight in one skirt was five pounds. Our dancing was so energetic that even those weights didn't keep the skirt as decent as her mother would have liked. SHE was safe from the flying weights, protected by multiple layers of starched net.

Og

 

[R. Richard]

The current local fashion for women of almost all ages appears to be tiered skirts in all lengths from mini to floor.

I think there is a story in there somewhere.

Og

Og:
You are overloking a key point here. The mini skirt [and particularly the micro-mini skirt] is an invention on a par with the steamboat. The reason for the conclusion is that they made the same statement upon seeing both inventions for the first time: "Now we don't have to wait for the wind!"

 

[oggbashan]

Og:
You are overloking a key point here. The mini skirt [and particularly the micro-mini skirt] is an invention on a par with the steamboat. The reason for the conclusion is that they made the same statement upon seeing both inventions for the first time: "Now we don't have to wait for the wind!"

They are not so attractive on an average woman. Revealing what is concealed is much more attractive than having everything on display.

A woman with a perfect figure can wear anything and look wonderful. The current fashions allow imperfections to be disguised and assets to be enhanced by appropriate mix and match. The result is that more women look attractive.

Micro-minis worn by those with large thighs can be a real turn-off. One of the local shops stocks micro-minis up to 46 inch waist! Big women can be beautiful but NOT in a micro-mini. Shiny black Lycra cycling shorts on women with 50 inch waists should be a public order offence.

Og

 

[English Lady]

I so want one of the skirts you're talking about og -but I'll probably own once they're out of fashion, it's usually the way it happens. I do love how the fashion is very feminine right now. it's nice to see women looking like women.

 

[oggbashan]

I so want one of the skirts you're talking about og -but I'll probably own once they're out of fashion, it's usually the way it happens. I do love how the fashion is very feminine right now. it's nice to see women looking like women.

My local market is selling tiered white skirts at £4 each. Matalan's prices are only slightly more.

Diversion: Our town elects a Miss (name of town) and three Princesses each year. The requirements are that they must be over sixteen years and unmarried. They represent our town in carnivals all over East Kent during the year, visit old people's homes, open new businesses, raise money for charities, hand over the prizes at dog shows, sell raffle tickets etc. etc.

They wear full-skirted dresses over hooped petticoats or layers of stiffened net for their carnival appearances and long dresses for most other events. By the end of each woman's year as Miss (name of town) or Princess they know how to move in large skirts gracefully, how to make an entrance, how to go up and down a staircase when they can't see the steps - it is a practical lesson in deportment. Their dresses are sponsored by local businesses, they get free hairdressing and make-up and a cash prize.

Over the last twenty years a whole range of women have represented our town and none has disappointed us either in behaviour or appearance. What has changed is that gradually they have been accepted as having brains and intelligence. Where they used to hand out prizes, they now help to judge the competitions. Where they used to stand around and look decorative, they now entertain the old people, the toddlers' group, the audience waiting for the star to appear. Last year Miss (name of town) was the star of our local amateur pantomime, singing, dancing and acting - and showing every other member of the cast how to do it properly, and how to work an audience to respond.

The next town decided some years ago to have a Junior (age about 11) Miss (name of next town) and Junior Princesses after some difficulty with the older girls. Our Miss (name of town) and the Princesses look after the next town's representatives at carnivals where they appear together.

In last year's carnival we persuaded some of the previous holders to participate. We even had Miss 1933 who walked the whole 3 mile Carnival Route - wearing a hooped skirt and carrying her original parasol.

A few years ago our Miss (name of town) used to commute to work on a powerful 900cc motorcycle. She would attend her formal events by motorcycle and change out of her leathers into her formal gown in a convenient toilet. She even managed her own hair. Her transformation scene was very popular.

When our former Miss (name of town) or former Princesses get married their expertise shows not just in the way they move in their wedding gowns, but their poses for the photographers.

Long may we have our carnival representatives.

If only some of our young men could learn deportment...

Og

 

[R. Richard]

Micro-minis worn by those with large thighs can be a real turn-off. One of the local shops stocks micro-minis up to 46 inch waist! Big women can be beautiful but NOT in a micro-mini. Shiny black Lycra cycling shorts on women with 50 inch waists should be a public order offence.

Og

I must disagree that wearing a micro-mini with a waist size of 46 inches should be a public order offence. However, SELLing a micro-mini with a waist size of 46 inches should be death without trial!

 

[Black Tulip]

Sorry guys, but I have to disagree.
As Og should know, I'm not exactly a little girl.
But I do wear short skirts and I'm glad they come in bigger sizes too.
Some women are tall without being skinny!



I'd like to add: I look like a peasant in tiered skirts!
Be gone with them!!!

 

[fairysong]

So that's what the current fashion is! I have to say that I would probably like the long flowing skirts.

 

[SeaCat]

Ogg,

My wife has a couple of different longer skirts which she enjoys wearing. She finds them more comfortable and cooler than even shorts at times. Even though she grew up wearing them she moved away from them for quite some time. Now she has gone back to them. (Hey fashions change.) It did take her a little bit to relearn how to wear the longer skirts but she did it.

As an aside; one of my favorite pictures of her is her wearing a long peasant skirt, boots and my hat. Yowza! (I managed to have it blown up to poster size by a friend who works in a photo lab. He had to do it after hours due to the rules currently in effect.)

Cat

 

[oggbashan]

Sorry guys, but I have to disagree.
As Og should know, I'm not exactly a little girl.
But I do wear short skirts and I'm glad they come in bigger sizes too.
Some women are tall without being skinny!



I'd like to add: I look like a peasant in tiered skirts!
Be gone with them!!!

BT is certainly not a little girl. I know (after observation from a safe distance) that she has long legs that go on and on. BT does not need to hide them. I may be biased but I think BT's proportions are perfect.

Tiered skirts work for some and longer skirts do cover some imperfections. BT doesn't need tiered skirts to conceal her legs.

But if a skirt is nine inches long with a forty-six inch waist I still think it makes the wearer look ridiculous.

Og

 

[Black Tulip]

LOL

Thank you, Og.
It's just that I get a bit pissed off at people stating bigger sizes should or should not wear certain kinds of clothes.

Being tall and big, I've had trouble all my life finding fashionable clothes in my size.
I agree, there's not much wrong with my proportions. Hehehe.
But I do have a waist of 39".

For the curious among you: 45-39-45 on a 5'9" frame.

 

[gauchecritic]

For the curious among you: 45-39-45 on a 5'9" frame.

Curiosity piqued.

 

[Black Tulip]

 

[Remec]

For the curious among you: 45-39-45 on a 5'9" frame.

Not so much curious as dying for an actual glimpse. Lucky Ogg! <smile>

 

[R. Richard]

For the curious among you: 45-39-45 on a 5'9" frame.

BT, I can admire a big, tall lady. However what Og and I were actually addressing here is the 35-45-55 woman on a 5'2" frame. We are talking here tides, not jiggle.

 

[Black Tulip]

LOL

I knew that, more or less. But the point I wanted to make is, there are women for whom a 46" waist would be in proportion to the rest of her.

So, call me stubborn.