On the chat, I keep seeing people stating that nobody GG's don't seem to wear skirts anymore.
I feel that in some areas, this just isn't true. I live in Oregon, the southern part of the state, and girls constantly wear skirts here. It's really the 'in' thing. Hell, there's a group of men who wear skirts during the summer, even. During the winter, there are always women walking around in skirts, it's not exactly a rare thing.
So, any other observations from other places?
It seems to be a pretty decent mix of attire where I am (Northern Calif), skirts included in the summer. Fwiw (=
In Florida, the school aged girls wear them all the time. Women? I would say it's probably 50/50. I think the problem is that a woman can't find them in her size. The girls are wanting them so small and short and the woman just aren't comfortable with that.
Heck, my wife can't even find a regular pair of jeans. They are all low rise. It seems that jeans are made for super models or moms (you know the mom jeans that Saturday Night Live makes fun of).
Here in Ontario around where I live women wear mostly pants in the winter months, and it's about 50/50 fro the reaminder of the year. For myself I wear them year round as the mood suits.
Steph
Hi Sarra,
It cold here in Michigan too, so most woman wear pants.
But I have noticed that some of the young teen girls are wearing skirts on warmer days.
Durning the rest of the year it's about 50/50 for woman. Teens seem to like shorts better, Maybe 30/70.
I perfer skirts and can't wait for spring.
:)
Jillieann
Yeah, it kinda got me the other day, seeing some rather old women around in rather short skirts, and it was like... BELOW freezing. o.O
I do notice that the further north you go in the county, the fewer skirts you see. might have to do with the university at the very southern tip of the county. :p
My best friend wears a skirt for her job... She gave all of her other skirts ot me. She has trouble finding jeans that don't rip or look bad, she has no problem finding skirts though. Most people here wear long skirts, even during hte summer, and even the younger ones.
I think it probably also depends on the age you are looking at. Plenty of girls at my school wear skirts. Probably 1/2 almost everyday during the warm months but not so much during the winter b/c it is cold in wisconsin! But anyway, it seems to me like skirts are still popular :)
Here in Ontario where I live as well, during the winter months due to the cold weather women wear mostly slacks, and I too do because of the cold.
The other day when i was in a large mall for about 3 hours, think I only saw one girl in skirts, and it was apparent that she probably worked in an office, with the outfit she was wearing.
In the summer, it is about 50 - 50. I prefer skirts too in the waarmer weather, but then depending on the environment i am in as to wether it is a skirt or slacks
Denise
I've always been envious that girls had the choice to wear skirts or not.
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I'm with you Helen,
QuoteI've always been envious that girls had the choice to wear skirts or not.
It could be a weather related phenomenon as down under it's summer and it's skirts everywhere. The length seems to be age related however, the shorter in years the shorter in material.
Shelley
> ... The length seems to be age related however, the shorter in years the shorter in material. ...
Hum, I tend to agree but that scares me... I still prefer floor length stuff and knee high is short to me. Um, I guess I'm an old 13 year old? cackle ... I was a 'grown up' 13 year old the first time around, why not the second too?!
I've noticed that most women wear either slacks or long skirts during the winter. However, I still see VERY short skirts on the girls in the school where I teach. No leg warmers. No stockings or tights. And, yes, sometimes heeled-sandles in the snow.
I guess that this is proof that humanity will survive the next ice age!
Chaunte
Here in Melbourne I'll say skirts are huge as well as dresses.
I wear them most of the time unless I'm in jeans, I have about 6 dresses but something like over 30 skirts, ones for day wear, club wear, work and just weekend wear.
I'd say they are maybe 10% or less in WV maybe a little more common among older women.
My feeling is that in the cities during the summer, there are a lot of skits.
If anything, I think skirst have made a come back in the last 20 years.
When I was in high school, almost no women wore them, they were almost always in jeans, now I go past the school and its like a runway show with mid tigh or shorter everywhere.
Every time I look in the mirror I see a woman in a skirt LOL :) I even wear skirts in the winter, we have mild winters so I might not in blowing snow but I just have a little longer skirt for those winterly months, I wore pants for many years and still at work (scrubs) but I swore I would wear skirts for the rest of my life if I could.
Hmmm skirts....I have a lot of skirts....lots of different styles and yes there are great ways to wear them year round...
I am 39. I do wear low rise pants, they fit me better than the *mom* pants lol. I have a little waist and wider hips so the low rise pants are great cuz I no longer have several extra inches of excess fabric around my waist.
Ok back to skirts...in the summer IF I wear a skirt it is usually just a lil flouncy (short) thing over my bathing suit. Unless of course it is work attire then I would be in a skirt suit as osten as a pants suit. I do have a jean skirt I wear sometimes too.
I actually think I wear more skirts in the winter. I have varying lengths. The same cute skirt you wear in the summer with sandals can be revamped in winter by adding a great pair of boots (or a pair of tights).
I seem to remember you wore that Jeans skirt when we had lunch.
I wear skirts most of the time, unless pants (or shorts in the summer) are more appropriate for what I am doing at the time.
Sarah L.
Here where it's hot most of the year, many women wear them for work. But at any kind of leisure it mostly jeams or shorts.
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Quote from: Sarah Louise on May 18, 2007, 10:15:40 AM
I seem to remember you wore that Jeans skirt when we had lunch.
I wear skirts most of the time, unless pants (or shorts in the summer) are more appropriate for what I am doing at the time.
Sarah L.
lol yep yep you have a good memory Sarah!
My problem with skirts in the summer is that I am soooooooo pale skinned. I cannot tan because I have had melanoma twice. I don't like the fake tanners as they are orangey. And FWIW I got cancer from tanning beds....be warned and don't think it can't happen to you. Scarey thing about melanoma is it is one of the biggest killers because people don't pay attention to their skin and melanoma is oprgna spreading.
The women in DC wear alot of skirts and dresses, it is very common year round. This is differant from Chicago though, were it is uncommon, most women there wore pants and jeans.
It does have a great deal to do with location.
I'd say where I live in FL its 50/50 depending on how they feel that day. Down here I see attractive 35+ year old GG's wearing the short low rise mini skirts even, you know the ones that are above mid thigh. So I'd say each area develops its own style.
I fancy getting some boho types of skirt, something flouncy. Those things were very big last summer...
Yeah, I like those too. I have five skirts, and four of them are like that.
Got any with emboidered flowers, i like those ones most - remind me of someone i loved...
Most of my skirts are the pleated mini's but I do have some boho's I just love the little flair at the bottom I really feel like I'm wearing nothing :)
I'm raising one eyebrow....
Not sure it is proper for a lady to be thinking about wearing nothing (:D)...unlike a man a met today who thought it unproper for a lady to think.
What a pig.
Silly girl I feel like im wearing nothing but I have a skirt on :) I like being naked around my condo on the beach and few other exclusive places.
You find the beach private?
Quote from: Pica Pica on May 21, 2007, 11:54:00 AM
You find the beach private?
Well the one we go to is only accessible by boat a tiny island in the gulf
Quote from: Pica Pica on May 20, 2007, 02:10:51 PM
Got any with emboidered flowers, i like those ones most - remind me of someone i loved...
Abstract flowers -- yes, one. For some reason I like those, but not realistic-looking flowers. I'd post a picture if I currently had that skirt in my possession. :(
Yeah, styleised is better, laura ashley fan i am not.
Pica Pica needs one embroidered with m->-bleeped-<-ies.
Quote from: Doc on May 23, 2007, 01:58:59 PM
Pica Pica needs one embroidered with m->-bleeped-<-ies.
Now that could be fun, black and white thing, maybe a bit of shiny sparkly bits in their beaks.
Quote from: Pica Pica on May 23, 2007, 04:54:55 PM
Now that could be fun, black and white thing, maybe a bit of shiny sparkly bits in their beaks.
Bright black and snow white, with iridescent purple and green on their long tails and all kinds of colours of bright sparkly things in their beaks. You'd look smashing.
Were you not looking to make that reference?
Pica pica is the latin binomial/Linnean/'scientific name' for the m->-bleeped-<-ie. Except some taxonomist recently decided that American m->-bleeped-<-ies are a different species from European m->-bleeped-<-ies and now they're
Pica hudsonia instead of
Pica pica hudsonia. M->-bleeped-<-ies haven't noticed, I'm sure.
Quote from: Doc on May 23, 2007, 05:04:21 PM
Quote from: Pica Pica on May 23, 2007, 04:54:55 PM
Now that could be fun, black and white thing, maybe a bit of shiny sparkly bits in their beaks.
Bright black and snow white, with iridescent purple and green on their long tails and all kinds of colours of bright sparkly things in their beaks. You'd look smashing.
Were you not looking to make that reference? Pica pica is the latin binomial/Linnean/'scientific name' for the m->-bleeped-<-ie. Except some taxonomist recently decided that American m->-bleeped-<-ies are a different species from European m->-bleeped-<-ies and now they're Pica hudsoni instead of Pica pica hudsoni. M->-bleeped-<-ies haven't noticed, I'm sure.
Nah you got the reference fine and dandy, more for the folk element to taking shiny things...that's sort of my own view of gender - take the bits i like. I chose the European ones 'cos I'm English and they're the ones I see.
In temperment I'm more like a sparra. (Or sparrow for the unenlightened)... The Iridescent purple and green are a big improvement on the original design - but I think we're moving into long coat territory now though. ^-^
Quote from: Pica Pica on May 23, 2007, 05:09:13 PM
The Iridescent purple and green are a big improvement on the original design - but I think we're moving into long coat territory now though. ^-^
Yeah. I was thinking of some chinese silk-on-silk embroidered kimono-ish garments I saw, with phoenix and dragon on instead of m->-bleeped-<-ies, but the only iridescent embroidery I've ever seen.
If it's a kimono, it needs some fishnet stockings with red bows, some doc Martins and a pipe,
Allow me to kiss your toes.
But the pipe. A carnival-glass one? A churchwarden? A briar? One of those classic meershuams carved into a lion's head, or better yet, a busty naked lady?
Allow me to nuzzle your knuckles for that important point.
I think simple porcelin with a long stem...with the naked woman one for special occassions. (This is after all, a lounging Kimono).
I have a couple nice skirts, I wear them sometimes, but only if I can dress them down. But FWIW, I'm 24, and I haven't seen one of my girl friends wear a skirt since middle school. This is exempting like a dressy skirt, for a special occasion. I'm talking like day to day, in general everyone I know just wears jeans and a cute top. Which is fine by me, because I'm addicted to jeans too.
I'm 29 and I tend to wear skirts more often than not. Today happens to be one of those days I am not. I work in a pretty big city (Portland, OR) and many women wear skirts there. So I blend right in and nobody seems to have any objection with me wearing them.
Me....i just want to wear skirts
Me, I just want to nuzzle someone's knuckles.
Dennis
not the same nuzzling your own is it?
Quote from: Pica Pica on June 13, 2007, 08:55:29 AM
not the same nuzzling your own is it?
Nope. And not even going to try to kiss my own toes.
Dennis
I like skirts... I think I'm addicted ;D ;D ;D
As a side story... I've promised to go to work wearing a skirt :P :P
Quote from: Dweia on June 25, 2007, 02:42:00 PM
I like skirts... I think I'm addicted ;D ;D ;D
As a side story... I've promised to go to work wearing a skirt :P :P
awesome
I've gone to class in a skirt many times. Does that count for anything?
Most youngish women in the UK seem to wear jeans, slacks, or trousers most times .... skirts only to work in an office or shop, or for a "night out", or casually if the weather's really, really hot.
Exception is teens who flount their bodies in micro minis (with opaque tights or leggings in hostile weather).
Go into town on a Saturday and no-one between the ages of 20 - 50 seems to be wearing a skirt ! I'd feel so overdressed wearing one ....
Personally I feel tight jeans or trousers flatter my figure far better than skirts .... just feel sooo much more sexy in them !
In warmer weather I go for the cropped variety revealing my lower legs in a really flattering way.
Longish skirts just scream "I'm fat .... I've got something to hide !", and I'm too old for minis, though I'm beggining to feel OK with this seasons tunic tops and leggings :) .
Last year's ethnic patterned flouncy long skirts just turn me cold .... how did we think we ever looked good in those ?
My own skirt wearing tends to be a "winter thing", for the office and post-work drinks / dinners, with just above the knee smart tailored skirts, patterned or plain tights (sheer or thick if its cold), and high boots - really sexy ;) !
Laura x
Laura, in London I saw quite of bit of skirts in October (not just by teens)! The weather was quite warm though.
In Montreal, half the women wear skirts during the summer month downtown (20-30 wear shorts or capris), less in the peripheral, neighborhoods (people wear more shorts there).
When its warm and humid during the summer, jeans or pants kinda suck.
Nobody wears hoses obviously during the summer.
Most people here wear jeans summer and winter. Even when I go to the mall I see jeans on most everyone. Now you do see the short mini on teens that are trying to show off. I have some of them but they are very hard to sit lady like in. They are ok for walking or to use as a cover for a swim suit.
As far as what I wear, you will usually see me in jeans. When going out on the town I wear short dresses.
Deb
I heard of a survey amongst women where they stated that most women dont feel confident enough with the look and shape of their legs to be comfortable wearing skirts. Its only the few and confident that seem to be able to pull it off so to speak.
Personally I agree! Weather really has not much to do with it. You can always wear stockings!
Quote from: debisl on June 28, 2007, 07:13:57 AM
Most people here wear jeans summer and winter.
Deb
i cant stand jeans, i dont know why
Quote from: Rachel on July 01, 2007, 11:29:35 PM
Quote from: debisl on June 28, 2007, 07:13:57 AM
Most people here wear jeans summer and winter.
Deb
i cant stand jeans, i dont know why
I don't like them much either. Black jeans are OK, but blue jeans just look ugly to me, so I never wear them.
Ive been thinking about how much I like skirts and I thought yeah skirts are better for summer and warmer months. Stockings are a pain yeah so jeans are best when your not up to wearing a skirt. weather effects your skin I know. And if your cold and uncomfortable in a skirt its not good. Personally I love jeans and a hoodie. But a skirt and a nice short sleeve shirt and jacket always looks cool if done right. Well you dont have to have the jacket.
So I sought of contradict myself on things. Earlier I said weather has nothing really to do with it. But it does sometimes. Depends on fashion as well. And look at all those school girls in uniform. They have to wear skirts pretty much all through winter.
Jeans are comfy, non restricting, and slobable, same with cargo pants and shorts, easy to whip down for the loo. skirts are even faster for the loo :P specially the lenght i wear sometimes, although i hate the loo when wearing tights, its a pita...
personally im a trousers fan, but as my legs get better, im more open, im certainly not one of the 'ew trousers never again' ->-bleeped-<-s.
also my GIC requires a skirt or dress to show your putting 'effort' into your transition *s->-bleeped-<-s*
I've posted in this before and like I said Skirts here in Australia are huge with girls aged 12 to 30ish.
I wear one most of the time. If it's cold I bear it if its too cold jeans are my friend ;)
I'll say that I wear a skirt maybe 75% of the time