Had an interesting skirt exchange in a store today.

Gregg1100 · Post by **Gregg1100** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:55 pm

Hi,
Pic of skort definately shows SK irt front with sh ORT s rear. Plenty more images of skorts on web showing this.
Greg

skirttron · Post by **skirttron** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:05 pm

staticsan wrote:Far various reasons, most of my skirt wearing is currently bedroom attire.

On the relatively occasions when I am on my own, I buy (womenswear) cotton sleep shirts and find them very comfortable, though not always long enough. I never wear pyjamas as they are too constricting, so it's these or nothing.

imadube · Post by **imadube** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:58 pm

Gregg1100 wrote:Hi,
Pic of skort definately shows SK irt front with sh ORT s rear. Plenty more images of skorts on web showing this.
Greg

Ok Greg,
Though the items I purchased with shorts, skirted all the way around were labeled SKORTS - you must be right.
I have been doing an image search on the net and found that for the most part - partly and fully skirts "shorts" are labeled Skorts, if they started as different named designs it seems as all have been set aside in the "Skort" catagory.

Gregg1100 · Post by **Gregg1100** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:18 pm

Hi All,
Forgot to actually put link to aforementioned pic in the message. Silly me.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/ ... 4skort.jpg

Greg

Departed Member · Post by **Departed Member** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:39 pm

imadube wrote:As for the split leg, long skirted thing - as I was growing up and going to the Baptist Church I learned those things were call (spelling is bad) Koolotts (something sounding like that), as in the Baptist faith girls were not allowed to wear pants or shorts but then OOPS - your undies are showing so - wear those koolotts and that was fixed.

Yes, that (koolotts) is how "Cullotte(s)" is pronounced! As a garment it should be in the singular, but as it was technically a 'divided tr*usr', unfortunately it attracted the 'quasi-plural', i.e., Cullottes!

imadube wrote:I forgot what the shorts with a front skirted flap is called but I do believe it's not skort. This is actually made now for younger girls as a modesty item, where many pants and short are so tight, the flap lets the front side be concealed.

No-one I knew had heard the term "Skort" until the shorts+flap garment appeared here in the UK c.1987. I remember the girls in the office I worked in at the time talking about them - and they were extremely fashion-conscious. They showed us the 'new fashion' in their magazines. As we (the blokes) dissolved into fits of laughter, they wisely decided not to 'go down that road'. You're right about them eventually becoming mainly a little girl's item, if last year's Belgian airshow @ Beauvechain was anything to go by....

Sasquatch · Post by **Sasquatch** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:02 am

Gregg1100 wrote:Hi All,
Forgot to actually put link to aforementioned pic in the message. Silly me.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/ ... 4skort.jpg

Greg

I had never seen a garment like the one pictured. Clearly the category SKORT encompasses several variations. I own two lycra/poly tennis skorts that I bought on a lark. I found them on a 50% off sale rack at a chain sporting goods store (Dick's) for $3.95 - so the cost me about $1.98 each! They are really comfortable and seem like they would be outstanding athletic wear. The short inside is like a nylon/lycra compression short, but not as snug as a cycling short. Each leg has a funky little upside-down pocket for extra tennis balls. You would just squeeze a ball out if you hit one outside the fence. I only wear them around the house and for sleeping occasionally.

I also found a skirted swimsuit bottom in navy at this store one time - also on sale for three or four bucks. It's basically a Speedo with a very short skirt attached. I wore it once to the beach on a solo fishing trip - under my Macabi which I took off. Although I fish on a relatively empty spit of beach near the inlet, a few beachcombers wandered by after I got a couple lines into the surf. If they noticed what I was wearing they didn't mention it.

Sasq

cessna152towser · Post by **cessna152towser** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:36 pm

The whole idea of wearing a combined shorts and skirt seems rather cumbersome. To me it seems pointless to try to disguise shorts as a skirt; might as well wear a simple pair of shorts. More comfortable surely to wear a skirt which gives a passable resemblance to shorts from the front, such as this four panel man's camo skirt from Midas Clothing.

Gregg1100 · Post by **Gregg1100** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:09 pm

Hi Cessna,
I agree with you. Whats the point of a skort. Either wear shorts or a skirt, and as I never wear shorts (not since about the age of 14), a skirt would be my preferred garment. Skorts are still bi-furcated clobber, but with a flap of material at front, giving impression of a skirt. Neither here or there .
Regards,
Greg

Since1982 · Post by **Since1982** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:40 am

Cullottes are what I referred to when I mentioned women in the early years wearing a split skirt to ride a horse. Those were cullottes...A skort is more like a shorter version of Japanese Hakama pants...

Looks like a skirt but is shorts..hence skort..

In the movie, "The Last Samurai" with Tom Cruise, he referred to his bodyguard as non-talkative because they made him wear a dress. He was wearing Hakama pants, which do look very much like a skirt and not like pants until you look very close..

:bouncy:

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