# Ladies: skirt pulled up or down when using the toilet? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 22, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647 "2012-02-22T18:18:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/1 "2012-02-22T18:18:56Z")
When you seat your royal behind upon the porcelain throne, do you pull your skirt down (the way you do with pants/underwear) or do you pull the skirt up around your waist? ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/2 "2012-02-22T18:28:18Z")
I suppose it depends how tight the skirt is. My skirts tend to be short and tight, but if the fabric is stretchy, I pull it up. If the fabric has no stretch (thing a business suit), then I unzip and pull down. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/3 "2012-02-22T19:21:25Z")
I refuse to wear a skirt ever, ever again. But back when I did, I pulled it up over the waist. ---
**Author:** ![LaurenIpsum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@LaurenIpsum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LaurenIpsum)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/4 "2012-02-22T20:15:54Z")
I wear skirts a lot (personally, I find them much more comfortable than pants) and I always pull them up. ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Saber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Monkey\_Saber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Saber)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/5 "2012-02-22T20:30:55Z")
I always do short skirt down long skirt up. Its habit to pull down, but i am weird about my skirt touching the bathroom floor if its long. ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/6 "2012-02-22T20:31:55Z")
This thread is making my nipples hard. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/7 "2012-02-22T20:32:15Z")
I chose two:\* Entirely Depends entirely on the cut of the skirt\* and _Pull skirt up over waist_, which isn’t exactly correct. To explain, I \*prefer \*to pull it the skirt up to my waist as avoiding having my clothing touch the tile is a Very Good Thing. Public bathroom floor tile has an ick factor of astronomical proportions. However, sometimes it can’t be avoided to drop frau trou to the floor. Pencil skirts: there’s simply no way a whole pencil skirt is going to transcend my hips. Also, linen skirts wrinkle at the slightest provocation. One simply cannot be scrunched up at the waist for any session longer than quick tinkle or it makes you look like you just had a quickie atop the copier. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/8 "2012-02-22T20:46:23Z")
I have gotten my skirt caught in my undies twice in two days by pulling up. It is down from now on, baby! ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/9 "2012-02-22T20:47:50Z")
I’m most comfortable wearing pants; when I wear skirts I use them in the same way. I find it very distracting to have to hold on to my clothes during business (such as when I’m in a dress, or the floor is dirty). ---
**Author:** ![Dublin11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dublin11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dublin11)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/10 "2012-02-22T20:49:08Z")
I have never - not once in all my days - pulled my skirt down to go to the loo. I always hoik it up around my waist. And further, I am officially boggled to hear that other women do pull their skirts down. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/11 "2012-02-22T20:51:26Z")
I usually pull my skirts up, but denim skirts get pulled down like jeans. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/12 "2012-02-22T21:03:43Z")
> [@Dublin11](#): > > I have never - not once in all my days - pulled my skirt down to go to the loo. I always hoik it up around my waist. > And further, I am officially boggled to hear that other women do pull their skirts down. I’ve got pencil skirts that you _can’t_ pull up. So down it is. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/13 "2012-02-22T23:00:18Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > I suppose it depends how tight the skirt is. My skirts tend to be short and tight, but if the fabric is stretchy, I pull it up. If the fabric has no stretch (thing a business suit), then I unzip and pull down. That’s closest to me, I suppose. I wanted to see if I was the only one, or if most women had a preferred system one way or the other. Oddly, I’m the opposite of at least one of you (“I always do short skirt down long skirt up.”) because for me, my short skirts tend to me harder to get up over my hips (pencil shape) and if I lifted a long skirt up, I wind up juggling so much fabric while otherwise engaged (wiping) that I’m afraid I’d drop the hem into the bowl. I don’t think of our office bathroom as “public” in the same way as, say the local bus depot, and because I tend to work later hours I can vouch that the night cleaners do at least give the floors a cursory mop every day (which, frankly, is more than I can say for my own home, and I can assure you that no cats are barfing on the bathroom floors here at work.) So I’m not worried about my skirt touching the floor because, well … I don’t eat off my skirt, nor do I make out with it in any way, so “germy” fabric swishing around my calves doesn’t bother me. A special shout-out and thank you to **Brown Eyed Girl** for teaching me the phrase “frau trau.” That’s great! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/14 "2012-02-23T02:55:55Z")
I almost never wear skirts, but I do wear choir robes on a regular basis. Pants go down, the robes go up. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/15 "2012-02-23T02:57:50Z")
I knew it; I knew I was going to come in here and find some outlier who pulled her skirt DOWN. I mean, I never heard of this before. Why would you do this? Then your skirt will be puddled on the floor. Of the bathroom! Only at the Dope! ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/16 "2012-02-23T03:06:24Z")
Mostly I wear skirts or dresses. Dresses, of course, must be pulled up. Skirts also get pulled up. > [@](#): > > I can assure you that no cats are barfing on the bathroom floors here at work. And why not? There are many cats who would enjoy barfing on the bathroom floors there at work. Just get a couple from the local Humane Society and point them to the potties. Problem solved. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/17 "2012-02-23T05:30:32Z")
> [@Dublin11](#): > > I have never - not once in all my days - pulled my skirt down to go to the loo. I always hoik it up around my waist. > And further, I am officially boggled to hear that other women do pull their skirts down. Likewise. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/18 "2012-02-23T06:02:55Z")
Lies, that’s no radio button, that’s a ticky box! I am, however, a skirt-wearing lady-type person and skirts go down if they are below knee length pour moi. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/19 "2012-02-23T06:11:37Z")
Pants go down, skirts go up. I don’t think I own any skirts too tight to go over my hips, but if my new diet is successful perhaps I will rethink my wardrobe options. A wise, kilt-wearing man once told me; You can do more with your skirt up than your pants down. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647/20 "2012-02-23T15:49:58Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Likewise. And I’m suprised that so few women do. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-skirt-pulled-up-or-down-when-using-the-toilet/613647.md?page=2)