dillon wrote:All the skorts I have - and I have several; tennis, trail, and running - are essentially loose miniskirts with "boy leg" compression shorts built in. I've encountered only once a skort made with a flat free panel in front, and even that had a full skirt around it. I've never seen ones some have mentioned as being basically shorts with flat front and rear panels. I think those types are exceedingly rare. All mine are of stretch lycra/spandex or at least a semi-stretchy nylon, and made for sports. I have a Nike golf skort that is actually a two piece set.
I also prefer skirts, but skorts have the feature of matching the inner and outer parts in color and fabric. Worn with a jock or thong, it's not without utility in an active sports role.
The Skort without the rear apron is or was called a scooter and was the first generation of the skirt short conversion.
It was commonly found in the young girls children's clothing departments.
A Skort will invariably have the skirted apron across the front of the garment be it flat or with accessory buttoned zippered closing panels.
There have been designs that look like a denim skirt with the fly closing both the skirted front panel and the inner shorts together.
For the orthodox skirt wearer it flies in the face of an abomination of the unbifurcated garment with the inner clothing structure.
But this in some cases allows for the omission of underwear or minimal clothing as that is an all ready covered area although for serious
skort wearers the compression inner panty is the answer sans under gear !
An all in one piece garment for the bottom half of the torso !
Ya doesn't haveta wear the skort if ya no want to - but then sometimes the raw economics of buying a skirt garment tilts in favor of buying the skort
where you could simply scissors snip out the inner panel and then have a skirt - but careful how you make this simple alteration least you have something
less than a mini-skirt left over ! I remember years ago of the neighbor kid who wanted shorts and cut the fabric just below the rear pockets resulting in
two globes covered only by the inner pocket liners - Oops lesson learned ! Best to go to a thrift store for practice material.
So Skorts you are either going to like'm love'm or not !
A factor to consider with a skirt the skirt can be raised higher on the waist whereas the skort with its bifurcated inner crotch will stymie this move in the
interests of doing restroom business.
) chiefly because a young professional lady bowler, Danielle McEwan, won a championship, and she bowls regularly in what I assume is a skort, though it may be a skirt. I was not able to tell, but Google images suggest a skort. I was on a bowling team once, like 30 plus years ago, just after college, and I am generally in favor of any sport where beer can be consumed while participating (and the only other one I can think of may be fishing). But she looked good bowling in the skort, and it really makes me want to start another league team of skorted men...if only I knew any others, LOL. Our old team was called the GourdHeads...I think I'd call this one the Benders. Incidentally, her opponent was wearing pants. I'm sure the skort was a factor! 
