I've been wearing pretty much 24/7 since 2007 when some nurses said I should try them for my 12-hour shifts in the NOC with its concrete floors and raised-tile computer room floors. There were great! Helped reduce night-time leg cramps. Then had a DVT incident and three doctors gave me prescriptions for medium support hose - which was fulfilled by store-bought hose rather than medical-grade.
So, jump 7 years and I have been pondering a conversation I had with a lady friend...who said 'skirt' every time I said the word 'kilt' and well, what's the difference, really?
Anyway, I've worn several skirts out and about during the late Spring, Summer and having seen ladies wearing skirts to work...knee-length ones at that...I said why not?
So I've been wearing to and from work, though not at work yet. Tonight was the most extreme: 48 degrees Fahrenheit with a 15-mile/hour wind from the NNW. which by the Pre-November 2001 formula comes to 33.15 degrees F. The "new" formula gives it: 42.08 degrees F. I was wearing a knee-length knit pencil skirt in the parking garage downtown, 7 floors up, top level within spitting distance of the river. Surprisingly, my fingers, arms and chest got cold, legs were ok and the.....ummm...updrafts were not that noticeable other than the movement of air.
More than 15 minutes would have been a bit much unless I was going somewhere, and if I'd had a medium windbreaker or blazer on it would have mitigated the upper-body cold, and provided pockets to put hands in.
So I can see where short exposures walking to/from the office and wherever you parked or the bus stop and so on is do-able. Now, to try it with an ankle-length skirt. No underskirts or slips or whatever yet.
And...I've noted that many ladies of my acquaintance are 'cold-blooded' by which I mean they have cool or cold hands and feet.... Which they place on me, here and there, in order to warm up and sometimes ask: 'how can you be so warm?'
