I voted “it depends” because it does. However, I’ve traveled around the sun enough times to know that my preference is to wear skirts that I’d pull up so it’s something I’d consider when trying on the skirt.
Recently there was a Yahoo headline about the return of the jumpsuit. I lived through jumpsuits once before and the first thing I thought of was what a pain it was to deal with them in the bathroom.
Absolutely up. When I saw the thread title, I was incredulous that anyone would ever think of lowering her skirt that way. Well, I guess this goes to show that if someone’s thought of something, no matter how odd, someone somewhere has done it.
I wear skirts & dresses all the time, but I don’t wear any pencil skirts; in fact, my favorite skirt shape is A-line. One of my long skirts is a very full circle skirt, which has so much fabric that to go pee I simply gather it all up and toss it over my shoulder, which keeps it out of the way nicely.
I’ve been thinking about what you said here. And I’m vey nosy, so I’ve got a question - with a skirt that is too narrow to go up over your hips to go to the toilet, can you sit down in it, or is it a skirt just for standing up in?
I hasten to add that standing up and sitting down that I mean here have no relation to toileriffic activities; just sitting on a chair behind your desk at work or to drive or ona sofa or a bus.
Dublin, I bet she means skirts like this one, which I can assure you are fine to sit at a desk in (otherwise they wouldn’t be de rigueur in so many offices) but difficult to hike up over the hips.
In my case, I wear a lot of skirts like this one * to work, and it’s juuuuust enough fabric to be awkward to hold in one hand, but not enough to do the carefree toss-over-one’s-shoulder technique that Johanna mentioned. Along the same lines, this shapelooks awkward to hike up as well - I’d probably shuck it down just like I would with pants. Again, as I said above, my office’s bathrooms are kept much cleaner than your average “public” restroom, and I am not in the habit of using my skirt as a plate, so I’m not worried about what potential germs might get on that particular hemline. I mean, wouldn’t I get more germs riding the bus back home at the end of the day (assuming I got a seat)?
Humm - I have many such skirts and still pull them up - now, I don’t haul them all the way up to my waist, but up to my low hip I suppose. And some of them are pretty tight.
I never really thought about it, actually but I guess I sort of just shimmy them up to the appropriate place. Maybe I just have malleable hips.
What Sister Vigilante said.
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Those are the sorts of skirts I wear to work. I suppose it must depend on the fit, because God knows there is no such thing as a standard fit, whatever size you wear.
I love the look of jumpsuits, but unless the wearer is within an inch or so of the designer’s specs, then the jumpsuit isn’t going to fit right. And they are difficult or downright impossible to alter. When I was younger, I used to buy jumpsuits and try to wear them, and wonder why they just wouldn’t look right on me, no matter what I did. I finally realized that I’d have to either belt them (which ruined the lines) or alter them at the waist, and that meant that I’d have to cut the zipper at the waist and find some way of closing the top part of the zipper. Plus, of course, the bathroom factor.
I also used to wear leotards/bodysuits and tights and a skirt. Yes, I looked very well put together, but when it was potty time, I’d have to take it all off. Or at least down.
Euuwww…I just had a flashback to a culotte dress I wore in high school. It meant getting undressed to pee.
Damn thing ZIPPED IN THE BACK, too!
I need a cool cloth for my forehead.
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