"Practical" skirts for various activities

[Raakone]

I know it's been said, but "what activities"? I don't think there's a "universal skirt"...although from what I've read, the Macabi comes close. Me, I've done a few various things in my sarongs, even gone swimming in one! *laughs* And climbed over a railing in one (tricky, but not impossible)
~Ra'akone

[Skirt Chaser]

So my question: what would a practical skirt design be for such activities?

More generally, what skirt (or kilt) designs are practical for what activities?

Keep an eye out to see if anybody there does wear a skirt, what kind, and watch for any accomodations they make such as holding a long skirt to the back of their knees if seating themselves knees up. Also, practice at home with what you have. You want to know what skirts are too tight to allow your full legspan before taking off hiking or what gets stuck to you with static if rolling in it.

Quiet Mouse

[AMM]

Keep an eye out to see if anybody there does wear a skirt, what kind, and watch for any accomodations they make such as holding a long skirt to the back of their knees if seating themselves knees up. Also, practice at home with what you have. You want to know what skirts are too tight to allow your full legspan before taking off hiking or what gets stuck to you with static if rolling in it.

Quiet Mouse

Welcome back, Quiet Mouse! Your visits are always appreciated.

The girls who wear skirts at these events either wear long ones or ones with shorts or jeans underneath. Sitting "knees up" is rare for anyone in that crowd, but cross-legged (which is a stretch for me) is common, as is sitting on the heels (which I can't do at all.) They also like to form "couch piles," including when skirted. They do pull their skirts down as necessary.

As for practicing at home: when I can, I sit on the floor, including cross-legged, just to stretch my joints I wouldn't want to do that in public with my knee-length skirts, but the 30" or longer ones I think are OK. I tend to turn around (like a cat) as I'm sitting down while pulling the skirt down and under me, then adjust the part of the skirt on top.

I don't wear tight skirts, in any length -- if I can't do a Sun Salutation, or sit-ups, or put my leg up on my dresser in one, I'll get rid of it.

I have both synthetic (nylon or polyester) and cotton (half-)slips, and it's the cotton ones that tend to stick to my legs or socks. All my skirts are lined (I add a lining to the ones that didn't come with one), which also reduces the tendency for the skirt to get stuck to me.

-- AMM

[Big and Bashful]

Welcome back, Quiet Mouse! Your visits are always appreciated.

The girls who wear skirts at these events either wear long ones or ones with shorts or jeans underneath. Sitting "knees up" is rare for anyone in that crowd, but cross-legged (which is a stretch for me) is common, as is sitting on the heels (which I can't do at all.) They also like to form "couch piles," including when skirted. They do pull their skirts down as necessary.

As for practicing at home: when I can, I sit on the floor, including cross-legged, just to stretch my joints I wouldn't want to do that in public with my knee-length skirts, but the 30" or longer ones I think are OK. I tend to turn around (like a cat) as I'm sitting down while pulling the skirt down and under me, then adjust the part of the skirt on top.

I don't wear tight skirts, in any length -- if I can't do a Sun Salutation, or sit-ups, or put my leg up on my dresser in one, I'll get rid of it.

I have both synthetic (nylon or polyester) and cotton (half-)slips, and it's the cotton ones that tend to stick to my legs or socks. All my skirts are lined (I add a lining to the ones that didn't come with one), which also reduces the tendency for the skirt to get stuck to me.

-- AMM

Couch Pile? Sun salutation?

[AMM]

Couch Pile? Sun salutation?

Sun Salutation -- A yoga sequence (it's not a posture, more like a sequence of postures) Any good book on Yoga should show this.

Couch Pile, Recipe for -- Take one or two couches that look like they were rescued from a garbage truck 20 years ago, add 20--50 teenagers of mixed genders, hair colors and styles, clothing colors and types, etc., who are very friendly with one another, and arrange the latter on the former in a relaxed way such that it is not clear which extremities belong together. Throw in a guitar or two and maybe a ping-pong paddle and some hit songs from the '60's or '70's that have seen better days.

Now try to find the kids that you have promised to drive home (100 miles away.)

-- AMM

[Big and Bashful]

Fanks for that!

[staticsan]

I sorta experimented with different skirts for different things a few years ago. That plus recent experience tells me that a kilt is close to the perfect design for the varied activity you described. Whilst I haven't done all those things while skirted (or kilted), I have done a few, significantly, sitting cross-legged on the floor. The kilt covered everything well.

That said, I used to have a shin-length full skirt I tended to wear when doing PC hardware work, which I often do on the floor (more room to spread out). Oddly enough, it worked quite well.

As for short, tight skirts, I had two I found really good for cleaning wet areas, like the shower cubicle, because they could be shorter for more comfort than a pair of shorts and for most of the work I would be standing anyway.

Wade.