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steamman wrote: ↑Sun Jan 04, 2026 11:42 am So to start off the new year, I decided to wear my brand new dress that I bought in the Christmas sales. A Karen Millen zip front sleeveless black real leather midi dress. It’s a gorgeous dress that gives that “wow” feeling. I teamed it with 4” block heel knee boots.

Sounds enviable!

I have occasionally seen explicit age limits for cross-sex loos or changing rooms: the one I remember stated 7 as the oldest child allowed in the "other" changing room with a parent.

Myopic Bookworm wrote: ↑Sat Jan 03, 2026 6:55 pm (Bought online from www.disturbia.co.uk , in case anyone's interested.)

Drat! Went to check their website, discovered a sale, and now I've gone and bought another skirt!

I wore a dress to practice with the church music group and got no comment. (It is a very plain black knee-length dress, sleeveless and worn over a long-sleeved t-shirt, with a thick knitted cardigan on top.) On Sunday I'm planning to wear a near-ankle-length skirt in a dark tartan-like check. (Bough...

For me, the kilt was a huge part of gaining confidence in wearing what I liked. It was a socially acceptable way of wearing a skirt, and I started in my mid 20s. I later branched out into plain coloured kilts. It was decades before I realised that society was allowing me to wear skirts only of one p...

In Scotland, pleating to the stripe is reserved mainly for military kilts. Civilian kilts are generally pleated to continue the sett.

I love the poem, even though I can't tell the connotations of all the words and images in the original.

I have noticed that if I'm feeling down, I haven't the inner confidence that I need to go out in a skirt, and I resort to trousers.

In town today, I noticed that H&M are currently running an ad featuring women in suits.

I had a nice compliment on my outfit today: black/dark grey denim skirt, of the kind that starts as a sort of pencil-type but then breaks into pleats above the knee and finishes just below the knee. I wore it with a very male combination of navy pinstripe shirt and grey pinstripe waistcoat, wuth bla...

Many of the garments I see for sale with designs on have clearly been photographed separately and then had a design photoshopped on top. This is obvious in the more blatant examples because the design does not follow the shape of the garment.

I always like to support any retailer that is prepared to push the boundaries, so I bought one and it arrived today. I felt the same, and bought one. Although the weather is not suitable for trying it out as a running garment today, I have no problem with the snug fit. (Maybe I am less burdened in ...

You will find that whatever skirt you wear, some people will assume it is a kilt. I went to a local coffee stall in a plain mini skirt, and it took me a while to work out why someone started talking about bagpipes! (It was incessant comments about bagpipes, clans, and cold knees that helped to driv...

I bought a few kilts of Amazon US. Material is arcyllic wool but they don't always do the pleats right. Nice to see the ones here are nicely pleated to the stripe. I found it curious when in the US to find that pleating to the stripe was so common. In the UK, pleating to the sett is widespread in o...

I am booked to sing with a mixed a capella group for a memorial service at the end of the week. A good programme: Victoria Requiem (opening section), Lauridsen O magnum mysterium, and the last part of Byrd's Mass for four voices.