Grok wrote:Pros/cons-tighter skirts versus full skirts.
Tight enough and a skirt may reveal a lump in the middle of the front of the garment, which ruins the visual effect of a large smooth area and can set onlookers to tittering.
Tight or just close fitting skirts restrict stride. (I cannot take two stairs at once in my straight skirts, or do a full run.)
A truly tight skirt, on me, would reveal a bumpy terrain and not look all that great. I'd want to wear a long top over it.
Tight skirts are difficult to ride bicycles and motorcycles in. Step-through bicycles and scooters at least make it possible.
Tighter skirts take less material to make, and less room in your luggage or closet. (I find them very good choices for travelling.)
Fuller skirts cover over all your lumps and bumps
Fuller skirts can get caught in the chain of your bicycle, if they are also long. Or hang out the door of your car.
I knock things off desks and tables sometimes when in a fuller skirt.
Fuller skirts catch air and can blow up, and create noticeable drag when heading into the wind.
Full enough skirts will fall between your legs when you sit with legs spread, keeping the people across from you undistracted.
You can run, take multiple stairs, and do cartwheels normally in a full skirt.
You tend to be more constantly aware of a larger fuller skirt, because it requires a bit more management, and because there's just more of it. As a consequence, a full skirt with a pretty pattern on it feels awesome on the brain, like sitting in a flower garden. (I only discovered this after making my first circle skirt. It definitely has a mood-elevating effect.)
Although you may be more aware of the skirt itself, when it is a fuller skirt, you lose contact with its hem. In a tighter skirt you can feel the hem against your legs, so you know where it is most of the time. You feel much more naked under a full skirt, and if its hem gets caught up on something you could stand there with your backside hanging out for a long time before noticing.
Fuller skirts can be more feminine-looking to some people's eyes, especially if they "puff out" from the waist almost as an exaggerated allowance for hips and butt. Tighter skirts, especially "pencil" skirts which are made for women's bodies, have extra allowance for hips and butts but it is not exaggerated so (to my eyes anyway) seem less feminine than a bell-shaped full skirt.