Who likes skorts?

[Violet]

I saw these today. They're a combo skirt/shorts, but look like a skirt.

[Shakes]

Well, I personaly am for anything that promotes the exhibition of the female leg.

[Gundy]

I think they're horrid.

[belladonna]

Skorts are indicitive of all that is evil in the world.

[Eve]

Who wears short skorts?

[starkyld]

skorts are perhaps the trend-in-fashion which bothers me the most. i consider them to be a fashion travesty on the same level of wrongness as capri pants.

if i wear an eensy-weensy plaid skirt, i'm well aware that my panties could make a public appearance. this is wholly acceptable in my worldview. i really wish that the fashion industry would resist the urge to attach modest little shorties underneath an otherwise perfectly darling garment.

it's really frustrating to be shopping and find the most adorable little skirt, only to lift up the front flap and see these imposter-like shorties underneath.

(the widespread availability of skorts seems to limit the number of short cute skirts available. it's most distressing.)

[sidle]

Originally posted by Eve
Who wears short skorts?

I don't dare...

[sidle]

Oh, and [b]starkyld[/i], I've been known, if the item was on super-sale, to cut the offending imposter-like shorties right out!

[Neidhart]

Doggone it Eve, now I'll have that Nair jingle going round in my head all day!

[voguevixen]

I love them, I buy them, I wear them. My ass is too fat for an actual short skirt. This way I know I at least look good from the front without my saggy can hanging out the back. (I'm talking about skorts in a mini-skirt length. When I was in middle school I remember skorts in kulotte/knee length which were horrendously ugly, not to mention pointless.)

[DarkWriter]

My little girls wear them and love them. That way they can climb up the slide without little boys on the ladder teasing them because their underwear is showing.

Sheri

[whitetho]

There was a judge in North Carolina a couple of years back who made the local news because she most definately did not like skorts -- she said they were a form of shorts, which were prohibited attire in the courtroom. However, this judge was something of a nutcase, and left the bench a short time later.

[LolaCocaCola]

Skorts are tha devil!

[cichlidiot]

Originally posted by voguevixen
I love them, I buy them, I wear them. My ass is too fat for an actual short skirt. This way I know I at least look good from the front without my saggy can hanging out the back. (I'm talking about skorts in a mini-skirt length. When I was in middle school I remember skorts in kulotte/knee length which were horrendously ugly, not to mention pointless.)

I like the version you mention voguevixen. They look just like a skirt and it's difficult to tell they aren't unless someone shoves their face in your business. I have a few pairs of these, and though I don't wear them for a saggy can (that cracked me up) they do seem to help in the "doesn't have a can to begin with" thing I got going on. I had never really associated them with the term "skort" until now. I also remember those horrible knee length things, which is what I had always thought of as skorts.

[medstar]

Cichlidiot, another word for skort is culotte. I remember wearing them in elementary school before my rearend expanded exponentially.

[ratatoskK]

The same people who like sporks.

[Sengkelat]

Originally posted by Neidhart
Doggone it Eve, now I'll have that Nair jingle going round in my head all day!

Nair jingle? Sure, it was used as a Nair jingle, but it's originally a song by the Royal Teens. C'mon, man, weren't you around in the fifties? No? Oh. I guess they were a one-hit wonder, anyway.

I'm a little unclear on skorts. Are they the things that look just like a short skirt in front, but like normal shorts in back? I hate those. It's so disappointing to find out that it's not a short skirt.

Or, are skorts the things that look just like skirts, but have some sort of flap inside? I don't have a real problem with those. Except on my partner, whose skirt I might actually want to lift and then be thwarted by the skorts.

[Manduck]

Originally posted by Sengkelat
thwarted by the skorts.

This phrase should be preserved somehow for future generations to enjoy.

[alice_in_wonderland]

I don't really like them at all; but they're good for golf. (Particularly if you're prone to tipping out of the cart, but that's another story.)

[bristlesage]

Yeah, I think there's a fine line here between skorts, scooters, and "tennis skirts". Skorts are culottes, but shorter (culottes in turn are short pallazo pants). They look like a skirt, but are really just wide-leg shorts. Scooters are the things that look like a wrap-around skirt from the front (that is, they have a flap) but like shorts from the back. And "tennis skirts" are the little skirts with the knickers built in underneath.

Or at least that's how everyone I know identifies these articles of clothing. Using the above definitions, the first two bother me, and the last is an excellent reason to wear tennis shoes with a skirt and look sporty.

[Nortia]

I always thought what bristlesage called scooters were skorts, and that culottes were just...well...culottes. Whatever their name, I've disliked them since I first saw them.

[even sven]

I have a scooter that I just love. Theoretically, I am opposed to skort-like contraptions, but this item of clothing is awesome. It is a dark blue slightly stretchy denim. I like that it is casual and practical, the sort of thing I can wear on an everyday basis and not end up exposing myself, and yet it looks a little neater and more put together than shorts. Plus. it has back pockets so I can carry my wallet and my lipgloss without lugging around a purse. Since clothing manfucaturers apparently believe the world will end if they put pockets on women's clothes, you all are just gonna have to be content with my skort.

[elfkin477]

Aren't they meant for women who work in places where dress codes forbid the wearing of shorts? That's the only earthly use I can think to put them to...

[SmackFu]

Originally posted by Sengkelat
Are they the things that look just like a short skirt in front, but like normal shorts in back? I hate those. It's so disappointing to find out that it's not a short skirt.

Completely agree. Skorts have no mystery.

[voguevixen]

What mystery? Are you unaware of what's under there? Why is a skirt more "mysterious" than shorts?

[robertwa]

Originally posted by starkyld
if i wear an eensy-weensy plaid skirt, i'm well aware that my panties could make a public appearance. this is wholly acceptable in my worldview.

And your phone number is.......?

In all seriousness, I am pro-anything that is not pants on girls. Skorts are ok, skirts are better, dresses rule. Capris are the devil.

[minor hijack] Is anyone else in the North familiar with the blessed event known as Sundress Day? That would be the first day of the year warm enough for dresses, and they all come out at once. It's mostly celebrated on college campuses. I fondly recall skipping an entire day's worth of lectures just to observe the holiday. MMMM, sundresses! [/hijack]

[Zebra]

Originally posted by voguevixen
What mystery? Are you unaware of what's under there? Why is a skirt more "mysterious" than shorts?

I'm unaware of what color panties she is wearing, and yes, I really need to know that.



Skorts, Ok for little girls, Evil Ginger level tease on women.

[Jodi]

Another vote for "skort = shorts with the panel in front to make them look like a skirt" Culottes are, well, culottes. And another vote for "skorts: I hate 'em." Wouldn't wear one; think they look silly.

[Violet]

The skorts I saw looked like a skirt from the front and back. I found this definition that breaks it down into eras:

http://www.yesterdayland.com/popoped...ion/fa1895.php

[lucwarm]

Don't like 'em.

Let's face reality: For various reasons, a miniskirt is sexier than a pair of shorts. When you first see a "skort," you think it's a miniskirt, then you realize it's fake. So disappointing.

[Tabris]

No.




...but just to be contrary, I disapprove because I think skirts in general are unappealing; I'd much rather see a woman in pants or shorts than a skirt, nevermind some horrific half-and-half chimera. To the best of my knowledge my girlfriend doesn't even own a skirt, much less (ugh) a dress. And that's the way I likes it.

[Dagny]

I want to second everything that starkyld said.

[Dagny]

I want to second everything that starkyld said.

[CrankyAsAnOldMan]

I like the idea, but the reality is, from the front I might look fun and flirty....rom behind, I just look like I have a fat ass. So I don't own any pairs.

Though I don't know why I care. I avoid looking at my ass in the mirror anyway.

[Nenya_Elizabeth]

Well, I read "skort" as "culottes" to which my reply is UGHHH! EWWW! YUCK! I had an awful pair in orangish brown as a middle-schooler, and have hated them ever since.

However, these skorts that you speak of, the miniskirt-pretenders, aren't so bad. I don't think I'd wear them, though, because they are a fake. If I want to wear a miniskirt, I will, and will take the necessary precautions to avoid making all you male Dopers escstatically happy , and if I want to wear shorts, I'll do that. But a skort is kind of deceitful--and let's face it, I look better in either a skirt or shorts. But I would take this kind of skort over the culotte kind any day.