A little help shopping?

[straightfairy]

My tastes in my desired skirts to buy has been refining, for want of a better word..

I like this item

http://www.freemans.com/products/cheer- ... -701977_14

but it's too short for me. and despite searches, I can't find anything similarly styled, but longer, that I like.

if anyone sees something suitable, could they let me know please?

[Sinned]

I would happily wear that skirt but not at the price quoted. £4 is the price I would like to pay. The length is about right - mid-thigh.

[skirtyscot]

That's a good design. Halfway to being a kilt. If I were to design a men's skirt, I'd come up with something like this. I'd happily wear it, at that length or a couple of inches longer. £49 is not what you'd call cheap, but £4 is somewhat unrealistic!

[Sarongman]

Yes, I also like that skirt. I would raise one caveat in the pockets. If the pockets end at the straight line of stitching below them, then they are impractical. I find many skirt pockets to be so shallow as to be purely decorative.

[JohnH]

You carry a side or cross-body bag so you don't have to stuff things into your pockets. I got sick and tired of picking up my pants or skirt and having things fall out of them and the ultimate thing that caused me to end the habit of stuffing things in my pockets is when I washed and ruined a cell phone while washing a pair of pants.

John

[Sarongman]

You carry a side or cross-body bag so you don't have to stuff things into your pockets.

I have a couple of bags for the times I wear a sarong of one of the two pocketless skirts I have, but have a paranoia about putting such bag down somewhere and, absent mindedly (my mind is absent more often than it should-I might dock it's pay ) walking off without it, so I'll stick with pockets.

I washed and ruined a cell phone while washing a pair of pants.

Hmmmm Waterproof phone anybody? I could easily do that, however I am an old fogy who only carries a phone when I need to, and that is VERY rarely.

[janrok]

That skirt is way to short for me, sarongman.

[Sinned]

skrtysct,

Yes, I know that £4 is unrealistic so I might stretch to £9 but I haven't paid more than £5 for any skirt yet so I'll stick to my limits. I'll wait to see if one appears in a charity shop or I might make one. I am careful with my money as I have so little of it. Also I don't want MOH to say that buying skirts is an expensive pastime.

[straightfairy]

I'm more concerned with the design than the price. I have skirts ranging from £2.50 to £50 and can save up if needs be for a really nice skirt.
Ditto the pockets. Decent deep useful ones are good, but I can live with shallow ones if i really like the rest of the skirt.

[Lawrence de Grande]

Which skirt? The link only shows me a whole catalog page of various ladies wear and accessories. However, I do see several skirts there that I would definitely wear.

[skirtilator]

$9 for a skirt is extreme, even fairly cheap trowsers are double the price. In the left corner the snobbish scotsman and in the right corner the extreme bargain hunter. Exremely cheap doesn't pay off in the long run and extremely expensive is unnecessary. My limit is the price of two really good jeans. Which means here in Europe arround €90 each but I just need two or three really good skirts, like Skilts or Sport Kilts.

[Sinned]

skrtltr,

You don't know me. I'm careful with my money - I may not be a Yorkshireman but I'm certainly an adopted one and have taken to heart their thriftiness. They have a saying about short arms and deep pockets!!!!

I don't pay a lot for clothes and the fact that I'm not a hard wearer of them testifies to the fact that I can have clothes for twenty years or more and they still wear well. I have one or two general items that date back to the seventies. I have a denim waistcoat made by Brutus ( a well-known brand here in the UK ) and if I have it much longer it will be an antique. I buy clothes in sales and pay under £10 for them. The only things I have paid more for are suits and they are something I very rarely wear anymore. A £50 skirt would not just be remarkable for me - it would be a miracle!

[allen476]

My tastes in my desired skirts to buy has been refining, for want of a better word..

I like this item

http://www.freemans.com/products/cheer- ... -701977_14

but it's too short for me. and despite searches, I can't find anything similarly styled, but longer, that I like.

if anyone sees something suitable, could they let me know please?

Why not make it yourself?

I have the same problem, I find something I like but at 20" (or less) it looks like a mini on me. I have learned to sew on my own and make what I like.

I am working on the new version of the actikilt and have about a full day of sewing left. However it has 20 box pleats (so similar to what you posted in the link) that are the real time zapper.

If sewing isn't your forte, how about having it made? I know expensive, but sometimes necessary. You might want to see if your local school or university has a clothing design program. Many of those won't charge you labor, only materials. I know our local school does and they will make you what you want with only the cost of material and notions. A kilt would move you to the front of the line here but a skirt would leave you back at the end.

[straightfairy]

It's way beyond my sewing skills, and I simply don't have the money to have it made.