Too many skirts

hairy · Post by **hairy** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:46 pm

I started this thread but I'm so glad I did, its stopped me feeling so guilty about buying a cheap skirt and sending my wife to the checkout every time we go to town.
Some have a great deal fewer than me, which I expected but to find a lot of you have a good many more. I have an open rail above my bed for mine so they are out on show, my daughter knows I have some but she does not know about the extra short ones and she's coming home from uni this weekend so I know have that job of getting some of them put out of sight. Trouble is now with the weather turning colder I've started doing same as many others and brought tights too. luckily my skirts are all mini so not as much room is needed. Count again chaps you might have missed one at the back.

Kirbstone · Post by **Kirbstone** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:51 pm

I have a dozen at most, including 5 kilts, but there are a few more on their way....

Tom

Website · Post by **crfriend** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 9:54 pm

OK, you guys made go and count 'em. I've got thirty. These vary in length from mini to formal floor-sweepers and in lots of different colours with seemingly no real preponderance of one colour over another. Most of 'em are solid colour, but 4 are plaid and a couple have printed designs, e.g. my "peacock skirt".

Unfortunately, only the elastic- and drawstring- waist skirts fit at the moment as I've managed to ditch some 15 pounds and about 4 inches off my waistline (and I didn't have a lot of spare to give up); the fitted skirts all fall off me at the moment as my hip measurement has shrunk as well. In another ten pounds I'll weigh what I did in secondary school.

Caultron · Post by **Caultron** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 11:16 pm

I have about 25, which is interesting, because I don't think I ever had 25 pairs of pants and shorts.

Not that I'm obsessive or anything...

Skirts and dresses certainly have more styles available, but mine are 15 utility kilts and 10 a-lines, so not a lot of variation there.

Maybe it's the colors. I wear a lot more different colors now, not just black, khaki, and navy blue.

I have six pairs of high heels with a seventh on the way. I never had that many flat men's shoes. But the ones on the way were 80% off.

I also find myself buying a lot more shirts, to mix and match into outfits.

I suppose I have about 12 pairs of tights, again with more on the way. I've had more pairs of socks than that but still...

For the first time in over 25 years my closet is too small. I had to buy some closet-organizer shelves so I'd have somewhere to put the heels. I have 12 feet of hanger rods but they're getting too tight.

Fun with new toys, maybe...

TheSkirtedMan · Post by **TheSkirtedMan** » Sat Oct 24, 2015 12:16 pm

Having read this thread I too had to count. I have 48 and three that I put to one side for the odd DIY job around the house that is practical in a skirt! All are all calf length, 87cm to 93 cm (34 to 37 inches) one or two at 99cm (39 inches). The 3 for occasional DIY are 84 cm (33 inches). All are either plain, patterned, striped but none flowery! All acquired from the womens section of a clothing store and all labelled by society as womens only clothes. do I care, hell no, as I once heard on the internet, I think said by Eddie Izzard, these are not womens clothes they are my clothes. I have no kilts, no Utilikilts, no leather and would never go any shorter than calf length. My tops, all lose fitting, mainly buttoned and with a collar are of a similar number. I have more cardigans than my wife!

Like Hairy, at times I open the wardrobe and look at the array before me and get a mental block - which one, which is best for this occasion. When I was confined to the society expected dull grey male drainpipes and related tops I hated shopping, and replaced whatever quite quickly, dull grey, straight, plain. Now it is different but this summer I decided I wasn't going cloth shopping again until at least spring 2016 because I always come back with another skirt.

I never had anywhere near 50 trousers. I would say 4 at the most.

Judah14 · Post by **Judah14** » Sat Oct 24, 2015 2:15 pm

TheSkirtedMan wrote:All are either plain, patterned, striped but none flowery! All acquired from the womens section of a clothing store and all labelled by society as womens only clothes. do I care, hell no, as I once heard on the internet, I think said by Eddie Izzard, these are not womens clothes they are my clothes.

Well as we are talking about fashion freedom here, I don't think it is not a bad for a man to wear a flowery skirt, as I have a floral malong (along with a "diamond" paterned one) and I do wear it in public. And the Filipino malong is considered to be a unisex skirt, regardless of the design, so I think this would be a matter of your preference.

Aside from my malongs, I have a kaftan and a priest's alb. That's all.

DonaldG · Post by **DonaldG** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 10:39 am

I have just over 40 skirts, most are knee length +/- 2 inches, and a few are around ankle length. Most were bought from charity shops for between 2 and 5 UK pounds each, but a few were bought new from Primark, The Original Factory Shop, Store 21 or Marks & Spencer Outlet Store, again mostly at a cost of between 2 and 5 UK pounds each. My skirts are mostly black, beige or denim, although a few are summer-weight patterned ones.

6 or my skirts are leather, two of them bought new from Kays catalogue (in pre-internet days!), the others from charity shops or from Armstrongs Vintage Emporium, a great Edinburgh institution since 1840.

I also have some kilts: 3 tartan ones, 2 black ones, a beige utility kilt and a black leather kilt.

Also in my collection are 3 dresses and 4 Jellabiyas.

Kilty · Post by **Kilty** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 2:19 am

40 kilts of various tartans, 3 formal M&S pencil skirts for work, (grey, navy and black), one bodycon denim pencil skirt (no rear slit), one M&S denim knee length pencil skirt (rear slit), unbranded light green knee length denim pencil skirt (sometimes wear this to work), one grey denim pencil skirt. Several pairs of tights, and other necessary underwear I won't list...

No dresses yet, though I am thinking of buying some more pencil skirts in more feminine colours and some blouses

GothScot · Post by **GothScot** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 10:34 pm

Tallied mine up...

3 Tripp NYC one-legged pants (what an offensive term)
1 Style J Denim ground-length in dark blue
1 Style J drop-yoke A-line ground length in mustard
2 Maurice's straight denim maxis with back slit and those abrasions on the front (looks like I got dragged through the mud, but it was the style at the time)
1 Wrangler straight denim maxi with back slit in blue
2 knit black maxis (one thin waistband, one that's either wide or foldover)
1 fuschia silk ground-length
1 Tripp NYC black cargo kilt
1 khaki drop yoke ground-length custom job from a Burda pattern

Got rid of some when I moved so now I'm down to the same number as I have trousers...

SkirtedWelshman · Post by **SkirtedWelshman** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 9:49 am

I have 20 tartan kilts, 10 utility kilts of various colours, 1 denim, 1 leather. All knee length. Hope to start experimenting with mini kilts. At least if I'm buying kilts I'm not buying trousers, which I hate.

SkirtsDad · Post by **SkirtsDad** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 1:59 pm

I think that there is no such thing as "Too many skirts", just not enough space to hang them all!!!

Having just bought 20 more hangers and filled them already, I can now tell you that I have 140 short skirts hanging up, 1 I'm wearing and 1 in my sewing room waiting to be taken in. Of the 140 (that I usually wear over leggings or footless tights when I'm out and about, except on hot days which number few in the UK), maybe 7 or 8 are min-kilts (1 made by myself) in addition I have about 15 full length skirts, mostly black but a range of styles. The majority of these have been collected in the last 3 years or so, and by the time you read this I will probably already have added to my collection!

dillon · Post by **dillon** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 2:24 pm

I am chasing those numbers, SkirtsDad, and am jealous of your closet capacity. And welcome to Skirt Cafe, by the way! If you are so inclined, please do share a bit of your bio info with us in the Introductions forum.

dillon · Post by **dillon** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 2:32 pm

SkirtedWelshman wrote:I have 20 tartan kilts, 10 utility kilts of various colours, 1 denim, 1 leather. All knee length. Hope to start experimenting with mini kilts. At least if I'm buying kilts I'm not buying trousers, which I hate.

Also sending you a hearty welcome, SkirtedWelshman, and likewise inviting you to the Introductions forum, though you did introduce yourself in another thread.

rick401r · Post by **rick401r** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 3:12 pm

SkirtedWelshman wrote:I have 20 tartan kilts, 10 utility kilts of various colours, 1 denim, 1 leather. All knee length. Hope to start experimenting with mini kilts. At least if I'm buying kilts I'm not buying trousers, which I hate.

You must be a wealthy man to own that many kilts. I only own 3 tartan and 1 utility kilt and have a few hundred dollars tied up in them. On the other hand, I have roughly 20 skirts and maybe have $100.00 total. (I do buy secondhand most of the time.)

moonshadow · Post by **moonshadow** » Sun Jan 31, 2016 8:54 pm

I finally got mine somewhat organized. I had been keeping them in two dresser drawers, however I'm finding that they are hard to go through like that, and in addition, it causes wrinkles and fold marks that I don't like so I started hanging them up today.

Here is the total:
There are 28 skirts on the rack. I'm wearing one, and there's a skirt craft on the way that should be here tomorrow or Tuesday. On the end of the photo hangs my three dresses, and on the other side is my Wiccan robe, which I'm counting, as it is indeed an unbifurcated garment. It may even qualify as a "dress". This brings me up to.... if my counting is correct... 34 total unbifurcated garments.

https://flic.kr/p/CJo4pf by Moon Shadow, on Flickr

SkirtsDad wrote:Having just bought 20 more hangers and filled them already, I can now tell you that I have 140 short skirts hanging up

Thought I'd share a little tip I figured out today on clothes hangers. Whereas I had been putting the skirts in a drawer, I decided I wanted to start hanging them up. I went to the store to purchase some of those hangers that have the little clips on them so I wouldn't have to drape the skirts half way over the hangers making an ugly crease half way down, only to find out that these hangers were selling for $4.49 for a pack of 2 at k-mart. Given the number of skirts I wanted to hang up, I would have spent close to $70 on hangers alone!

I started to go home and just look into buying a bulk box of skirt hangers online somewhere, then it dawned on me... why not just use my old wire hangers (which are a dime a dozen) and some regular old clothes pins? I purchased a pack of 50 clothes pins at the Dollar General for $1. Enough to do 25 skirts. The photo above is the result, and I don't have another $70 charge on the credit card to show for it.

Tip: It helps to fold over the top waist line of the skirt over the hanger just as you would on a clothes line. It's very secure using that method.

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