# WTH? A "running" dress?! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 29, 2012, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-a-running-dress/639193 "2012-10-29T06:32:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-a-running-dress/639193/21 "2012-10-30T22:46:20Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > That’s a lot more stylish than the muslim women I saw snow skiing in their burka’s a few years ago in Aspen. Please tell me they weren’t white burkas… ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-a-running-dress/639193/22 "2012-10-31T00:23:33Z")
A running dress beats a run in your dress any day! ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-a-running-dress/639193/23 "2012-10-31T18:48:20Z")
Skirted garments are not as bad as one might think for active exertion. The Black Watch of the British Army (“strolling through the green fields on a summer day” as the song goes) infamously used to wear kilts into battle, resulting in their nickname “The Ladies from Hell”. ---
**Author:** ![Lightlystarched](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Lightlystarched](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightlystarched)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-a-running-dress/639193/24 "2012-10-31T18:54:37Z")
I would totally exercise in that - if I had a cute perky 20 year old’s body. My old lady thighs would be chafing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-a-running-dress/639193.md?page=1)