A Damn Chilly Outing

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A Damn Chilly Outing

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On Sunday morning, I had some time to kill before chaining myself to the couch to watch football, so I went on a brief skirt outing. Boy, was that ever a mistake, but not for any reasons you may think, rather----I didn't dress properly for the outing.

I went with a black turtleneck, one of my knee length denim skirts and my 2 inch heeled loafers with a windbreaker. After driving to the same downtown city park I went to on my first outing, I was surprised that it was chillier out than I thought as a strong breeze started blowing, making things chilly, especially on my bare legs. While precious few people gave me so much as the time of day, I was less than comfortable because I was pretty much cold. BBBRRRR! After about thirty or so minutes spent wandering around, I beat feet back to my car and headed home.

In the end, I screwed up by not adding pantyhose or tights to my outfit, so I had no one to blame for how frigid my little outing turned. D-UH!! Anyhoo, that was lesson learned for me, a lesson I'll remember for any future outings in fall or winter.

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In the end, I screwed up by not adding pantyhose or tights to my outfit
Each to their own. Personally if I felt the need to wear pantyhose or tights I might as well just wear trousers. I have found that thick knee socks are ideal in winter - kilt hose, football socks or rugby socks for example, held up with elasticated garters which you can easily make for yourself - warning don't just use a narrow but tight elastic band to hold up the socks as it will constrict the circulation.
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Tights aren't as bad as you might imagine; they do constrain "the boys" a little bit, not not too tightly, and by virtue of the material they're made of function much akin to a "second skin". I find that I can deal with most winter weather with tights, a slip (pretty much necessary with tights as the skirt and legwear fabrics can tend to "pick" each other), and a moderately heavy cotton skirt, a regular shirt a windbreaker jacket, and a hat. Mustn't forget the hat.
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JeffB1959 wrote: ..... I was surprised that it was chillier out than I thought as a strong breeze started blowing, making things chilly, especially on my bare legs. While precious few people gave me so much as the time of day, I was less than comfortable because I was pretty much cold. BBBRRRR! .... Anyhoo, that was lesson learned for me, a lesson I'll remember for any future outings in fall or winter.
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Well, I've never had trouble with hosiery constricting "the babymaker" and it looks better than socks, at least in my eyes anyway. I just don't why I forgot the hosiery on Sunday, given what the weather was like that day. How dopey was that! Certainly would've kept me warmer that day! Live and learn! As for a kilt, a nice idea, but I think I look nicer in a skirt.

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What part of Pennsylvania are you in? I was born in Reading within easy reach of Amish, German Baptists, and Mennonites. I wonder how they'd react (if at all) to a man in a skirt. Interesting. :) I do agree tho that wearing pantyhose or tights sort of defeats the purpose of wearing a skirt instead of trousers. :oops:
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Since1982 wrote:What part of Pennsylvania are you in? I was born in Reading within easy reach of Amish, German Baptists, and Mennonites. I wonder how they'd react (if at all) to a man in a skirt. Interesting. :) I do agree tho that wearing pantyhose or tights sort of defeats the purpose of wearing a skirt instead of trousers. :oops:
I would think that if it's really about religion and not other issues, it shouldn't make a hoot what you wear, but be about who you are, spiritually. Unfortunately in the past not only religion, or so called, has been misused to place themselves above others, and impede others from certain ways of life. Of course if you are happy with the teaching, ok. But then nobody should complain if in that way of thinking men wearing a skirt is totally not allowed.

Would be interesting to hear how different religions think about men wearing skirts. But not a discussion about the religion itself.

Hmn, depends on what underpants you wear. :oops: :shock: :?
If you already wear good fitting underpants, then tights won't change much, don't matter. If you like to hang em loose, well they're probably not your first choice, although stockings (nylon) are possible. And no fettisch.

I do agree with the IDEA that getting rid of pants and then wearing tights looks somewhat contradictory, but is not directly related. Depends upon the reason why you wear a skirt.

Many men even wear pantys under their pants, for warmth and comfort.

I wear tights, pantys, 'cause I like their comfort, and they give my legs a great look, with their colours and patterns. I wear all soorts of skirts. I think that Kilts are more suitable to be worn with long socks, the kilt is as good as I know, a very thick, sturdy skirt, not like other skirts.

There is no quicker way to get a tan, or a tatoo than putting on a pair of pantys / tights. And no easier way of removing afore said.

Pantys are not the easiest garments to get right, with regard to fit, and are vulnerable, but besides being functional, they feel good on your legs, and are fun. I don't wear them always. in the summer I tend to wear only sandles or shoes with long socks. ( I don't care so much about women saying that men shouldn't wear long socks, here in the Netherlands. but i think that if I wear them with skirts they don't mind so much as with short pants. ) ( back in the 70's in australia it was very normal to wear long socks ith short pants. I don't know how it is now, but in the Netherlands somehow it's taboe, along with short white socks. with short pants)

So depending on you motives, or the looks you want, will determine if and which pantys / tights you wear or do not.

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The difference between wearing jeans, or slacks, and wearing a skirt with tights or hose, is like night and day. There is much more airflow around the legs, and other areas we shall avoid mentioning. Pants drag on the legs, and the upper area is baggy. Skirts gently slide on hose covered legs, and feels so much better, and they fit properly.

As far as the look, at least for me hands down the look of legs coming out of skirts, hosed or not looks much nicer than loose fitting trousers.

For me leggings can be pants, and those are way different than jeans or slacks. Once again they fit, they do not drag on the leg, they move with you, not against you. Skirts are much the same.

I personally do not like letting the dangly bits dangle, I think it feels terrible. One time I had no choice do to a pair of hose deciding to die while I was wearing my long broomstick skirt. The hose broke (no other term) in the panty area, and became uncomfortable. So I took them off.

I did not like the feeling at all. I was quite happy the skirt I was wearing at the time was long. I now always have a spare pair of hose, or underpants with me, just in case the hose I am wearing decide to die.
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Since1982 wrote:What part of Pennsylvania are you in? I was born in Reading within easy reach of Amish, German Baptists, and Mennonites. I wonder how they'd react (if at all) to a man in a skirt. Interesting. :) I do agree tho that wearing pantyhose or tights sort of defeats the purpose of wearing a skirt instead of trousers. :oops:
I'm in Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love, though pretty damn violent these days. I'm not at all up on how people of different religions might react to a man in a skirt, however, the cynic in me suspects they wouldn't be all that accomodating.

I'm at a loss to understand why you would feel that hosiery defeats the purpose of wearing a skirt. Maybe I'm dense, but that doesn't make any sense. After all, women do the very same thing, so, where's the problem? I wear hosiery because it evens out the overall tone of my skin while hiding any minor blemishes. On top of that, I like how my legs look in hosiery.
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Since1982 wrote:I do agree tho that wearing pantyhose or tights sort of defeats the purpose of wearing a skirt instead of trousers. :oops:
If the purpose of wearing a skirt is to be able to go "commando" or nearly so, I agree.

On the other hand, a skirt with tights may still be less constricting than the alternatives. For example, with our current weather here (~40 degrees F at night), it's a bit cold to be riding a bicycle in a skirt with just socks. Skirt plus tights gives you more freedom of motion while avoiding frostbite of the thighs.

But if you're just walking around, I find that I'm plenty warm in warm knee socks and a long skirt with a reasonable number of warm petticoats (I'm not sure you'd call a polar-tec underskirt a "slip"), even when it gets below zero Farenheit (-20 C)
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I wore my kilt to church this morning (All Saints Service) with tights,hose and a nylon underslip, I was lovely and warm
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I admit a lot of the time I choose not to wear skirts on days I know are going to be cold, windy, or rainy. I absolutely HATE being cold! I live in the Pacific Northwest and most days are drizzly and gray, with plenty of wind and occasional snow. Most people do not carry umbrellas, because you just don't normally get "that wet", and it's considered part of the local culture to be tough enough to deal with the little dampening of the hair and shoulders that everyone gets now and then.

I've always thought the advice to "wear pantyhose" with a skirt to be laughable as an insulation layer. Wind blows right through pantyhose, and I want to be WARM!!! TOASTY WARM!!! I'm sorry I don't own an entire wardrobe of lined wool slacks to get me through the winter.

Having ranted about my percieved needs, I do admit that wearing jeans I am still not as warm as I'd like to be.

Would somebody like to enlighten me as to the best way to stay warm while wearing a skirt? I do own two pair of clunky boots (one a sandy suede and one a dark brown leather) that come just below my calves, but my calves are quite large and muscular and it'd be very hard for me to find ones that could come up to the knee.

I want to be warm, but I want to look stylish and pretty too.
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Emerald Witch wrote:Would somebody like to enlighten me as to the best way to stay warm while wearing a skirt?
The traditional answer was multiple skirts, usually long. The limit is the point where you are stepping on the hem or dragging it in the mud. Ruffles on the bottom help, too, to keep drafts from going up your legs.

I wear thick knee socks plus multiple slips/petticoats. When it's really cold, I have my choice of a polar-tec petticoat and a nylon-and-polartec overskirt (with pockets, of course!) The two together are too hot even for zero-degree days, though.
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Emerald Witch wrote:
Would somebody like to enlighten me as to the best way to stay warm while wearing a skirt? I do own two pair of clunky boots (one a sandy suede and one a dark brown leather) that come just below my calves, but my calves are quite large and muscular and it'd be very hard for me to find ones that could come up to the knee.

I want to be warm, but I want to look stylish and pretty too.
As AMM says,

Long skirts worn with thick kneesocks work well, or, in my experience, even knee-length heavy skirts worn with wool kneesocks or OTK socks, then your normal boots or shoes. Today, I decided to wear a military "summer" weight traditional kilt with a lightweight black pleated skirt underneath, plus a nylon slip. On the legs, a pair of trouser socks, plus a pair of wool kilt hose socks. Warm enough that I could probably have done without the parka that I threw on when I saw that the temperature was only 42 degrees here in Duvall.

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Mid calf heavy weight skirt with one or two slips. Tights, Knee sox. Hat

A lot of body heat escapes from the head, so wearing a hat helps keep the rest of you warm. You can get pretty stylish with hats.

Make sure that your feet don't feel pinched when wearing both tights and sox. Pinched feet get cold quickly and make you miserable. Also make sure your boots are waterproof.

If its really cold try getting a pair of thin undersox. You can find them at ski stores.

Also, take a cue from SCA costumes: chemise, petticoats, skirt.
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