I believe we may be having a problem with jargon here.moonshadow wrote:That's one of the biggest reasons I don't like pencil skirts, or skirts with a really small diameter hem. Pencil skirts seem to be in vogue now with the ladies, and every time I see one walking I think of penguins waddling. Either that, or it's like they are trying to walk in a potato sack race. Personally I think it looks ridiculous.
When I think "pencil skirt" i think the sort of tight-fitting mono-tube garment that hugs the hips and legs, usually with a slit in the back to allow motion, and which typically ends either slightly above, or at, the knees. These, depending on the fabric, cut, and depth of slit, can be practical garments for folks without a great length of leg.
Longer tight-fittings skirts, some with and some without walking slits, especially the ones without, are typically known as "hobble skirts" for a good reason: they hobble one's gait. These are usually deployed when someone wants to look entirely ornamental and doesn't particularly care about the practical needs required of one out and about in the world.
This is the form that the "maxi" seems to be taking on at the moment, and is removing the garment from serious consideration as an everyday rig. We're seeing what the "Fashion Designers" think women might be interested in.Especially those slim little cotton pencil skirts that drag the ground, to the point where the woman is constantly stepping on the hem.
I have a few maxis from years gone by, and those all have vast hem circumferences that can easily accommodate my 3-foot single-step length (this implies slightly more than ten feet of circumference -- a lot of fabric). I've actually tested some of these at a run, and they work; modern ones would fail miserably, even at a slow amble.
Was it that way all the way 'round, or was it that way only astern? If it was that way only astern, then what you were seeing was a skirt with a train -- a rather rare thing in this day and age; if it was that way all the way 'round, then what you were seeing was somebody who didn't know how to purchase or hem a skirt, or who wasn't wearing heels to properly life the whole thing off the ground (a very sloppy mode, I'll add).Saw one worker at one of our stores sporting such a skirt that drug the floor at least by 3 or 4 inches. I could see she was having constant trouble trying to negotiate the garment.
Having the hem on the ground ahead of one is an invitation to disaster as it's all too easy to trip over the hem unless one is paying very close attention to the thing. Even "floor-sweepers" are several millimetres above the deck in the front, although many sport very short trains that do drag a bit.
Two words: "Fashion victim". For one, it sounds like it was ill-fitting/fitted and, two, that she had no clue how to handle a long skirt in general (else she'd have know how to tame the thing). Dirt and slop are something entirely else altogether, and tend to be inexcusable; one just does not wear a skirt with a train in such environments. Period.Several times she about tripped, and working around these hot fryers, ovens, and such, it's an accident waiting to happen. Not to mention it just looked dirty and sloppy with all the dirt and shoe marks along the bottom hem.
I keep toying with the idea of getting a skirt with a train, but to the best of my knowledge based on commentary here, that B&B is the only one of us who possesses such a thing. They're completely impractical in the modern world.
Just don't hit the ground too hard or fast.I like skirts you could do a split in.
my grey one is very comfy, doesn't ride up much and although it is not everyone's style, I just prefer them 
