AIBU to want the 'midi' length trend to bugger off?

[natwebb79]

So many gorgeous dresses ruined by the fact that they stop mid-calf. I can't be arsed to wear towering heels to compensate. Wharever happened to good old fashioned 'just above the knee'?

I have got it so wrong this week.

Yesterday just above the knee - the dress was old and jersey and the hem kept kind of rolling up. Spent the day tugging it down and feeling like an arse.

Today I wore a midi dress. I am short and round and I wore it with trainers. All day long I felt swamped but with my puffy ankles on show. I spent the whole day comfortable but looking like a flump.

Tomorrow it's the just below the knee sun dress so at last I will not feel like an arse or a flump. I have a feeling that's too right on my tits though.......

Until someone makes a maxi dress that actually fits an average height woman who doesn’t want to wear towering heels, I think I’ll stick with midi.

I like maxis, and just on/below the knee also works on me. But midis make me look really weird, like it's meant to be a longer length but I've had a growth spurt or picked the wrong size. I look somehow like I'm wearing the wrong clothes.

And as a PP said I think of midi length as innately uncool - it's what my mum would wear when I was a teenager in leggings and a mini.

As a total short arse I love midi length. I can finally find a 'maxi' dress or skirt that doesn't drag on the ground but covers my cankles.

Midi is horrifically frumpy. I'm 5ft 2 with well developed calf muscles, so they get cut off at the broadest part. It has a look that suggests that I've either grown out of maxi length or failed to grow into mini. Maxi is fine if I don't fall over it. Mini is fine at maximising the length and shape my legs have. Midi just looks stumpy.

I love midi and used to wear them even when they bwere considered frumpy as my thighs and knees are absolutely terrible. I only wear skirts that cover my knees. I quite like pencil jersey skirts that finish just below the knee though the bottom bit of my legs aren't great either but I am ok with those on show (just)

I like midi too, even though I'm short. Comfortable and practical, and they hide my varicose veins

I love it as a petite size because I can buy midi and means I finally get a me size maxi dress!!

Snap! Oh BTW, who's selling them right now? I want one!

I hate midis too! I have short legs. Just above or on the knee suits me best.

I love midi length dresses and skirts. I’m fairly slim but have chunky thighs and like them covered up without being swamped by a maxi dress. Just above the knee looks horribly frumpy on me, I look a lot younger than I am and it makes me look like I’m playing at being a grown up in something that’s too big for me.

I love midis as I'm 5 foot 4 so they look like what a maxi is supposed to look like on me!

Midi is finally in fashion?

Anyone selling midi dresses with pockets?

I love a midi, by which I mean a true midi in the 70s sense, when it first came in and meant mid-way between knee and ankle, so not on the widest part of the leg at all. I look dire in just-above-the-knee. Even when I was thin it didn’t work with my legs. Now I’m chubbier it is gruesome.

My knees will never be witnessed again except by those who love (and forgive) me. YABU.

Look for different styles if you prefer a mini (you slim confident freak you....)

Love Midi (and maxi!). 5ft 9 but the height is all in my body, I have little titchy legs so a midi allows me to actually 'wear' a dress (ditto maxi)

The other types of dresses I wear as 'tops/tunics' because they finish essentially mid thigh or just under my bum

YANBU. Midi just looks frumpish on me. I have thick ankles. Knee or above looks much better. And don’t get me started on ankle grazer trousers - ridiculous trend.

I look dumpy in any length other than just above the knee.

Over 50 here and hell will freeze over before I buy s midi frump. sgree totally op. Above knee maxi or trousers.

I'm tall with great legs and I love a midi.

Just above the knee = holiday rep. Just below the knee = mother of the bride.

@slightlyglittermaned
Midi is finally in fashion?

Anyone selling midi dresses with pockets?

Scarlett and Jo! :) I've a Daisy, love heart and dot print ones - all with pockets :)
www.scarlettandjo.com

They always end at the widest part of my calf so make my legs look really chunky. I love maxi and knee length but being 5’9” it’s hard to get a decent knee length or maxi and i’m Too tall for standard but too short for tall ranges.

I used to love them, but now I'm a bit older, they just look frumpy on me

But if is embarrassing when you’re wearing a midi as a maxi and you pass by a woman of normal height wearing the same skirt...

I love midis. I'm 6ft tall and 40 and they are the perfect balance for me. I almost never wear above the knee now and although I love maxi skirts they are not hugely practical for day to day.

I just recently bought this from M&S: https://www.marksandspencer.com/cotton-blend-full-midi-skirt/p/p60167096?image=SD011T594020TTJPXXEC90&color=TEALGREEN&prevPage=srp&pdpredirect

I love it! I don't care how old and frumpy that makes me sound.

I know what you mean. I love above the knee skirts and dresses. I’m short but one of my best features is my shapely legs, so I like to show them off!