Long skirts around the house

[BlackbirdFirst]

I've gone full mummy fashion blogger today and I'm wearing a gorgeous floaty skirt with a little tee.

So tricking annoying to get about. So far, the cat has played about with it, DH (and I) have stepped on it going down stairs, I've got annoyed kneeling down to get things out of cupboards and caught in the car door.

Ffs I'm clearly doing this floating fashion thing wrong.

Aibu to think pretty impractical for a mum? How did the 70s ladies do it?

There is a reason why Edwardian ladies rebelled against long skirts.

Another one off to give the toilet a hug because someone actually just said 'mummy fashion blogger'. 🤮

I don't have a waist so this thread is triggering my waistband phobia/envy. I wish I could float around like this but I'd look like a gazebo wrapped around a tree.

I'm a floaty skirt wearing woman, honestly, just hold it up slightly with one hand, to the side, super fast and no chance you will forget to untuck

Never hears of it tucking it into knickers, that sounds obscene 😂
We just dont wear maxis to do housework tie it up to the side. Try midis?

Tea length. Then they don't sweep the floor, much more practical. Have you noticed that most Disney princesses wear tea length dresses for every day and save the floor sweeping stuff for the ball gowns? (Ok, Belle had those pink and blue day dresses, but they weren't actually hers; the blue one with the white apron was tea length.) And they all end up rich and married to princes with their perfect libraries or restaurants or whatever, with someone else to do the housework, so they must know what they're doing.

Pink and green, sorry, not pink and blue. Sorry, Belle, you're cool but Princess Anna eclipsed you when Frozen came out.

Or midi length. Maybe the princess are midi length, come to think of it. Showing ankle, definitely. Aurora was barefoot in the forest but even she didn't have the skirt sweeping the ground too.

Why would you wear an impractical long skirt just because some woman did on Instagram?! Bizarre.

Just wear leggings. Or yoga pants. Or jeans. Or shorts. Or leggings. Or nothing. All are better and more practical/comfortable than long skirts to do housework in.

I love a maxi dress, but for wandering around a coastal town or a nice meal in a beer garden, not for doing anything useful or productive

😂

I only wear long skirts when I don't need to do anything practical.

So, about once a month, for maybe an hour.

@DontDribbleOnTheCarpet

Oooo, I think I saw you the other day! Stopping traffic while your cows crossed the road? I've got to say it was the first time I've ever seen a glamorously clad farmer!

@Seafog

I'm a floaty skirt wearing woman, honestly, just hold it up slightly with one hand, to the side, super fast and no chance you will forget to untuck

That's how I've done it for over 40 years, never tripped up or anything like that at all

From what I remember of the 70s the dresses were heavier cotton or polyester blend, so perhaps not so floaty?

I think you need to watch some episodes of the Good Life.

long skirts are a nightmare. My dp told me he liked them in the beginning so I went through a phase of trying to wear them, but after falling up the stairs more than once, I now give them a wide berth

I am it so funny that you managed to have triggered so many people OP. Please go and take a photo posing in front of a brightly coloured wall just to finish them all off.

I’m sorry @BlackbirdFirst but you are making me want to wear one of those skirts now... (and yes I remember the ticking into your pants too. I thought I was the only one to do that!)

I wore them in the 70s and don't remember any problems except walking home in an Indian print skirt one night in the rain. It soaked up the skirt which then clung to my legs and made it difficult to walk. Otherwise I'd just hitch them up when necessary, no tucking in knickers was ever required.

They were a pain when my Dc were little but I can cope now!

I also agree - if you have shorter legs get them from the petite section, as this was part of the problem I was having!

Wore them in my youth before children and housework.

I still occasionally wear one now I'm long past having children around but unless the weather is very dry I'll change into jeans when I take the dog for a walk.

As pp said there's a reason Edwardian women wanted to shorten their skirts.

Yes, you can do practical things in longs skirts but it makes it all so much more of a faff.

polyester blend

Wash your mouth out! Never! I wore skirts in cotton print, cheesecloth, Indian printed cotton, velvet and one I made in crepe fabric but never polyester.

I don't remember any problems in the &0's wearing long skirts, but then I was free to please myself, and wasn't coming up and downstairs with a baby in one arm, a basket of washing in the other, tripping over Lego as I went. If you can just waft around with hands free, it's not an issue.

That's "in the 70's". I did try long skirts in the 90's but gave them up because of babies etc.

And yes, cotton, cheesecloth, all sorts of lovely fabrics but never 'polyester blend'

Back in the day, my friend's son had a playdate in their flat and they'd arranged what must have been about 100 tiny plastic toy soldiers in different groups up and down the very long hallway which went from the front door, past the bathrooms and bedrooms and kitchen to the lounge.

We were in the lounge, there was a knock at the front door, friend in swirly maxi-dress went to answer it, carefully stepping over all the groups of the toy soldiers, but the downdraft from her floaty frock scuppered all of them, to cries of anguish from her son and his friend who had spent ages setting them up.