(As a flutist, I might stand a chance at picking it up).Wanting to get some practice and get a feel for things, I walked into a store this afternoon and asked for help in finding a skirt that would fit me. (About three years ago I was 305 pounds and lost 55 pounds, then kept it off the last year and a half. Now, I'm beginning to lose another 55 pounds using something called "The Daniel Plan" with some friends at church.
The sales lady skillfully put me at ease and recommended a pencil skirt in a stretch black, I was concerned that it might be too small so she gave me another one and took me to the changing rooms. I was wrong and she was right so I'm sitting here in a Lane Bryant black Ponte knit pencil skirt about 24" in size 24. I'll probably get another similar one, and then I'd like to find something shorter, maybe a mini and something in-between.
But I'll likely wear the kilt out in public before anything else.
But in areas where I don't know much, I've had my nose rubbed in it too many times not to ask for advice and help. And she was quite outgoing, recommending this and that and chatting me up so I was concentrating on her and not what other customers in the store might have thought. 
