Do you wear a slip under summer skirts? Help me find one....

[legacy]

God, I must be boredthis afternoon. It's all Cod's fault - got me thinking about school run dresses and skirts and summer....

Issue: I don't wear flowery summer skirts much 'cos I get COLD, also they seem so THIN sometimes.

Do I need a 'slip' - I have never owned one in my life - help!
Where from? What like?

[NomDePlume]

a slip ?

are you eighty-five ?

[legacy]

But you can see straight through some of these summer skirts!

[cmotdibbler]

I wear slips - mostly beacause things are too see through/too clingy/just need a bit of help to skim over my tum or thighs.

The M&S microfibre ones that they now call cool comfort are great.

[NomDePlume]

Ah, I just wear Sturdy Pants.

[RosaLuxembourg]

I have an M&S microfibre slip - I barely take it off (doubles as a nightie, you know). Essential item of wardrobe kit imo - smooths out all the potentially clingy bits.

[woodenchair]

BHS do full slips too. also fairly cheap, under £10

[FluffyMummy123]

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[ButterflyMcQueen]

slip is such an awful nylon word

[Libra1975]

Slips are deffo needed for some dresses/skirts (especially with thighs like mine, not for general viewing even if that view is just because the light is shining thru at the wrong angle). M&S do a huge range.

[EffiePerine]

I never wear them - static issues

just show your knickers like the rest of us

[Disenchanted]

[NormaSnorks]

No static issues these days Effie - much nicer feel than in Granny's day...

They REALLY do need to re-brand slips I think - they are IMHO essential for some skirts- nice smooth lines, none of that hoiking down when you stand up etc etc

So 'No snurks' ladies (says Snorks)

[RosaLuxembourg]

No static issues with microfibre slips Effie. They are not just any slip, they are anti-static slips.

[cmotdibbler]

I was starting to worry that I was the only woman under 85 wearing a slip.

I realised today that I used to go out wearing the short black microfibre slip as a dress. How my life has changed

[themoon66]

Can we have a link to these wonderous slips then?

I got a couple of waist ones (think they are called 'half slips') from debenhams, but they are a bit crap and ride up and twist about.

[Dragonbutter]

why don't you ask on gransnet?

[princessmel]

My mum wears slips!
But I can see how they'd help with lumpy bits I suppose.

Re the OP, no I dont. If I was cold I wouldn't wear a flimsy skirt.

[EffiePerine]

Do they help with that thing when your skirt rides up when you walk and you have to keep pulling it down?

[DarthVader]

Noa Noa usually do silk slip dress with nice hemlines designed to be seen at the bottom of your skirt - they also do net underskirts, again designed to be seen underneath as part of a layered effect.

Alternatively you can buy summer design skirts made of thicker material to avoid the issue. I'm not mad on insubstantial skirts either!

[wishfort]

I loathe slips, but their absence is too horrible for words. I teach, and it's sooo not okay to see women, of whatever age, showing their underwear through their dresses/skirts.

Now I think of it, I don't like to see it off-duty either.

[2point4kids]

I didnt think slips still existed

[FluffyMummy123]

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[MrsBadger]

just don't buy such cheap skirts

[runs]

[Floren85]

I always wearing half slip under dresses and skirt.