Do folks notice or not?

[Caultron]

...one woman was impressed enough to comment on the rig -- "I love it! What's the occasion?"...

On Christmas?

[crfriend]

On Christmas?

The irony was not lost on me. However, I'm just calling it as it happened.

Not everybody celebrates Christmas. Heck, I don't! I hated it as a kid for myriad reasons and continue to have as little to do with it as possible save for spending time with friends and acquaintances -- which can, and should, be done frequently anyhow.

[Kirbstone]

Well, folks would certainly notice That for sure, Carl. Amazed to see you in such a short skirt, especially at this time of year. I suppose those neon tights are warm, as well?

Tom.

[crfriend]

[....] Amazed to see you in such a short skirt, especially at this time of year. I suppose those neon tights are warm, as well?

The temperature here topped out at 60 degrees in old money and the weather was quite balmy. I could have gone bare-legged if I'd felt like it but opted for something a bit more modest; my legs are decent-looking in line, but their surface shows the mileage rather badly.

The legwear was in two layers -- a pair of opaque black tights with the coloured fishies atop. Logic would dictate that fishnets would be absolutely valueless for insulation, but experiment seems to stand that assertion on its head. I'm not sure what's in play, but I was very warm the whole time. Even the fishies by themselves are warmer than bare legs, and that does defy reason.

As far as a "White Christmas" goes, we had several inches of snow on the ground for Thanksgiving a month ago and temperatures well below freezing -- and here we are now with temperatures that approach what we get in spring. Go figure.

[dillon]

Carl, you are correct about legwear in general. It creates laminar air and breaks at least a fraction of convective heat loss.

I was in tights by Spanx today myself, beneath a green stretch skirt by Kuhl, a Lole underlayer top, Royal Robbins sweater, and convertible mittens-fingerless gloves from Eddie Bauer, bundled against the chilly Patagonian wind coming off Lago Nahuel Huapi. My attempt to post a photo failed as my wife had the pixel size set too high on her phone. I will try again tomorrow with my camera, where I am confident of a postable file size.

[STEVIE]

A thought, I have been considerably more publically skirted in the last three months or so.
Out and about at lunch time in town, more recently, leaving for work as my nature intended and using the bus.
Strangers are one thing, they notice or not, react or don't.
Friends and aquaintances are a bit different, I've encountered a significant number.
This is six, none of them knew beforehand, none visibly reacted to the skirt.
They could not, realistically, have,all failed to notice? Or could they?
They maybe don't care or reckon none of my "business", I don't know.
Steve.

[Caultron]

A thought, I have been considerably more publically skirted in the last three months or so.
Out and about at lunch time in town, more recently, leaving for work as my nature intended and using the bus.
Strangers are one thing, they notice or not, react or don't.
Friends and aquaintances are a bit different, I've encountered a significant number.
This is six, none of them knew beforehand, none visibly reacted to the skirt.
They could not, realistically, have,all failed to notice? Or could they?
They maybe don't care or reckon none of my "business", I don't know.
Steve.

Once again, people wear such a variety of conventional, unconventional, and constantly-changing fashions that you can wear almost anything and still be just part of the flow. Even a skirt. And even friends and acquaintances. The only person for whom it's a big deal is you. (And maybe, inconveniently, your wife.)

[Sinned]

I am convinced that people just don't notice. I have met ( separately ) one or other of my neighbours whilst I was wearing a skirt and looking back on the occasions I am convinced that they just didn't notice that I was wearing a skirt. When in a mass of people such as a busy supermarket I don't think that most of them notice either. They aren't looking for unusual forms of dress so they just don't see it and if they do there's the "WTF" moment and then time passes on. Let's face it they probably have more important things to worry about than what other people are wearing! And as for me - it's not a big deal anymore, although I suspect it still is to MOH even though she mentions it less as time goes on.

[melsav]

I went to the gym this morning, after showering I put on the camo kilt that I have just made, a guy in change room asked "are you Scottish "i replied yes not wanting to get into any discussion. After leaving the gym went to Wimpy for breakfast, while waiting to pay a guy asked " that a nice skirt you are wearing where did you buy it, I replied "it's not a skirt it's a kilt and I made it myself" he replied " very nice" and walk off.

[Caultron]

I am convinced that people just don't notice. I have met ( separately ) one or other of my neighbours whilst I was wearing a skirt and looking back on the occasions I am convinced that they just didn't notice that I was wearing a skirt. When in a mass of people such as a busy supermarket I don't think that most of them notice either. They aren't looking for unusual forms of dress so they just don't see it and if they do there's the "WTF" moment and then time passes on. Let's face it they probably have more important things to worry about than what other people are wearing! And as for me - it's not a big deal anymore...

Exactly.

... although I suspect it still is to MOH even though she mentions it less as time goes on.

Mine is OK with me being kilted around the house and almost anywhere outside unless she's along or at church or if I'm talking a walk that starts at our doorstop. Which means I can go kilted about 95% of the time and do so. But further progress remains glacial at best. I think she's just got a fixed position of, "this far and no further."

[Sinned]

I feel that there has been one small step forward tonight. My son and his partner wanted a lift into town to celebrate his landing a new job. I was dressed in a black miniskirt among other things and my wife looked at me and said, "Are you going out dressed like that?" I said that I was going in the car, wouldn't be getting out and wouldn't meet anyone. I could see that she wasn't pleased but there was no other protest so I quickly slipped out to the car and delivered them to town. I expected a word or two when I returned but she didn't say anything and acted normally. Now a month or two ago I would have felt obliged to change into trousers. Maybe just a baby step and a long way from having her accompanying me out in the wild world but a baby step nonetheless. Still keeping to wearing skirts on alternate days although the definition of "alternate" is somewhat distorted. I have had to swap days sometimes through necessity and it means that today ( 30th ) tomorrow and Sunday will be skirted except when I am at work. I intend to be skirted when I go to pick them up again.

[Eborian]

People do not notice. I stopped at a busy(it) petrol station on the way back from Salisbury to Somerset the other day.I was wearing black boots, black opaque tights and a denim skirt. I saw no reactions at all.

[Caultron]

Today, after completing a hike, I and eight other club members went into the town of Kearny, Arizona for lunch.

Kearney is a remote mining town, population 2,765, about 75 miles southeast of Phoenix. Not exactly the epitome of sophistication.

There are two restaurants in town, one Mexican and the other Pizza.

We chose the pizza joint which, surprisingly, was crowded.

I was wearing a brown ranger shirt, a forest-camouflage utility kilt, brown footless leggings, and sandals.

Yes, people noticed. For about three seconds a few of the local people went big-eyed, slack-jawed or turned around to look. Then for the next hour it was business as usual, no special attention or comments at all.

What's the big fuss?

[dillon]

I feel that there has been one small step forward tonight. My son and his partner wanted a lift into town to celebrate his landing a new job. I was dressed in a black miniskirt among other things and my wife looked at me and said, "Are you going out dressed like that?" I said that I was going in the car, wouldn't be getting out and wouldn't meet anyone. I could see that she wasn't pleased but there was no other protest so I quickly slipped out to the car and delivered them to town. I expected a word or two when I returned but she didn't say anything and acted normally. Now a month or two ago I would have felt obliged to change into trousers. Maybe just a baby step and a long way from having her accompanying me out in the wild world but a baby step nonetheless. Still keeping to wearing skirts on alternate days although the definition of "alternate" is somewhat distorted. I have had to swap days sometimes through necessity and it means that today ( 30th ) tomorrow and Sunday will be skirted except when I am at work. I intend to be skirted when I go to pick them up again.

IMO, the appropriate answer to your wife's question would have been a simple "Yes".

[Darryl]

I went out in a black dress shirt, black pencil skirt over black leggings over sheer black graduated compression support hose and black walking shoes. Trip was to Men's Wearhouse to pick up a new Navy blazer....which I bought last weekend and they had to do some alterations. So I wear it out of the store. It was about a 45-minute trip each way but the stores in this shopping center are some of the best, so....

Detoured through Middletown for a Moby Dick fish sandwich. Parked, walking in the front door to find two ladies standing up to eyeball my approach and the girl behind the counter walking forward with a smile to take my order. Everyone had sat back down by then so when I got my sandwich and Coke I sat and ate, then walked out with a grin.