Nailed it...
Wore this getup all over today. This is one of the skirts I picked up at the hippie store at Roanoke yesterday. I actually wasn't in the market for anything today, but we had to run and get some supplies, so I wore it at Walmart and my home store.
We also stopped by a roadside indoor flea market right outside of Abingdon. The type that runs full time year round vendors. It's an enormous place. And I won't deny I was a bit apprehensive about going in. It was crawling with confederate flags, rifles, and such.... It was also quite busy. When I walked in the door, I noticed right off the back many conversations stopped and several sets of eyes were fixed on me. Thankfully a black woman with what seemed like a deep foreign (African?) accent stopped me dead and proceeded to praise the skirt and wanted to know where I got it. I told her, thanked her for the compliment, and wished her a good day. After that nothing further seemed to bother me, we walked all of the isles and checked out many of the booths.
I dare say this extremely redneck establishment was strangely friendly like. Not quite what I expected. Unlike my walk in downtown Roanoke the day prior in a much more "quiet" skirt, where many more strange stares were registered, and a few obnoxious laughs from surrounding riff raff.
Perhaps I have misjudged the country folk around here.
My only issue in this skirt was it is indeed a summer like skirt, the fabric is very light, and today it was somewhat windy. It was somewhat of a bear to keep it down at times.
Amber wanted to try and find a pair of pants (trousers) and we stopped at the GoodWill. We weren't able to purchase anything due to the visa machine not working. She pointed out several skirts that she thought I would like... but in all honesty, even if the visa was working... as it stands I'm sort of "skirted out". Not only am I fresh out of money, but there simply isn't enough days to wear all these skirts. With my four days off per month I have, I think I may have enough to wear a fresh skirt on every day off for a year and not have a repeat.
They are fun though. So many different styles to choose from.