Coat and skirt lengths - does anybody care?

[latrucha]

I, like all others, am currently hunting a winter coat. All those that I like are, to my mind, very short i.e. above a knee-length skirt length.

Now, a skirt showing underneath a coat, especially quite a mart coat, is horrid and wrong.

Am I hopelessly living in the '50s or am I absolutely right?

Yes that Zara website is a BIG disappointment. Has anyone been into one of their stores recently - is that mingery on display there too?

Oh and yes, I would generally say with a skirt you need either waist-length jacket, or a coat longer than the skirt (not something in between).

It is a rule I often break due to having a bit of a shit and uncoordinated wardrobe though.

I'm worrying in the same way as you, HoB.

I do know that, even if droopy skirts and baggy jumpers are The Way To Go this season, I won't be wearing them as I have my own rules, which include never knowingly wearing something unflattering to me just because it's deemed fashionable.

Which rule jumped into my head at a school open morning today, when several ill-advised furry gilets were on display. Lovely on those who suit them, but not many do.

Oh GOD no - I would never wear a skirt which came below the hem of a coat. To me that looks awful.

Either wear a long coat or a short jacket. Not a mid length coat which shows an inch or two of skirt underneath. It's wrong. It's like showing your petticoat underneath your skirt

I generally buy great big long coats, inch or so below knee, because I like that swooping Professor Snape swoosh a long coat provides.

Skirts are generally knee length or mini.

I intend to ignore the GHASTLY midi skirt length trend this season. Look at the pictures of the models in Grazia wearing those monstrosities. They look like frumps. Imagine what we mere mortals will look like.

meant couple of inches below the knee.

Jesus wept at all that Zara stuff. It looks like Marks and Spencer circa 1983.

And I am 6 foot tall with nice legs. I tried on a midi skirt in next (of all places) for a laugh, it made me look stumpy and my calves looked like an American footballers.

Mid length skirts are fashionable?

They are just seeing how gullible we are.

Of course, mid length skirts look fine on some people, but this is feeling like a Scarey Fashion Moment, and I for one am nervous at the prospect of no longer being able to find a skirt that ends above the knee.

Especially as I only really started wearing the shorter ones again this year, after a few years of (unjustified) self-consciousness at being overweight.

Hmm... I see what you mean but I'm not convinced. I suspect of a noir heroine waltzed on to the tube she'd look pretty frumpy in fact...