Trying on skirts in clothes shops

[Juan]

I was thinking about this particular thread, while I was away on tour.
I innocently bought my first skirts many years ago, trying them on in the stores without experiencing any problems, and not even wondering that there might be any issues with my doing that. It's not that I was very brave: I had had the experience of buying myself "women" shoes many, many times over the years (and only after trying on several pairs). Shoe clerks never look the least surprised, and in general they are patient and very helpful. Why should buying a skirt be any different? It wasn't.
But since I learned how to sew, I started making my own skirts. So this time, while I was exploring the town and shopping around, I decided to venture into some "female clothing" stores and try some garments on. Just to report my experience. They simply didn't carry any clothing for men, so they didn't have separate fitting rooms. The clerk showed me to one of the booths. I tried on the first one: a Indian flowered skirt.
"How did it fit?" I heard her ask from outside the curtain.
I came out, displaying the beautiful garment in front of all the customers. They didn't even turn around.
"I think it needs to be a bit longer", she declared
She was right I was wearing platform sandals and the hemline barely reached the shins. While I strode around the store, taking a look at the merchandise, keeping the skirt on, she showed up with a pile of skirts in different models. She obviously had no problem! I tried some of them, and ended up buying a wonderful, ample, ankle length, brown gauze skirt with tiny embroidered silver lines. I wore that to the next store, and then back to the hotel.
I think I might start buying skirts again, just for the fun of trying them on!

[RyeOfTheDead]

I thought of this thread this week too. I went shopping on weds and I wanted to get a new pair of boots or shoes to wear with skirt/tights combos as the weather gets colder. I have brown boots which i've posted pictures of on this forum, but I wanted either black boots or high top black chuck taylors to wear with some outfits that didn't go as well with brown, such as my black and blue buffalo plaid shirt.

Anyway, I decided, well hey since i want to see how this footwear will work with my skirts, why not wear a skirt and tights when I go shopping so I can find out before buying them? So I went into DSW in the green mini skirt from Old Navy that I posted before and the brown boots, and I tried on a pair of Levi's brand shoes that looked just like the solid black chuck taylors, and also a pair of men's pleather motorcycle looking boots. I decided to ask the girl working which she preferred, she told me the boots because they could be dressed up or down, so I bought them.

Then I was like "Well I'm already out" and so I went over to the nearby mall and went into the Gap and was looking at a knee-length plaid pencil skirt and the SA came over and was helping me find a 12, which he couldn't, but then looked at me and said "You might be a 10, you should go try it on." And he handed me the skirt and pointed to the fitting room area. First of all, nice news, the 10 fit, which is pretty awesome because time was I wore a 16. But also, just the fact that it was his suggestion that I try it on and not even me asking made me feel really great.

I ended up not buying the skirt, they had just gotten them in and they didn't have the color I wanted yet, plus I had a $20 gift card at home I'd hate to not use. But it definitely made me want to shop at that store again and I told the SA I very much appreciated his help.

[Since1982]

Rye said: black and blue buffalo plaid shirt

I'm very confused here, is this a shirt that's been badly bruised (black and blue) or one made from Buffalo hide colored into a tartan?

[RyeOfTheDead]

Actually it was a typo, it's a skirt not a shirt.

[red4222]

I shop and try on women's clothing at old navy the fitting rooms there are co ed and Just find a skirt I want and try it on...I have even had a few sales girls help me with sizing and they went and got me another size if the one I took in didn't fit and then checked to see if it fit right....