Converse with skirts / dresses

[MillsAndDoom]

Now we've moved house I'm walking a lot more so need to wear flats more.

I'm more of a skirt / dress wearer than jeans, so need lovers of Converse to tell me what kind of skirts I can wear with my (low) converse.

I'm thinking shirt dresses / denim skirts might be ok?

Or am I making a terrible sartorial error? And am I too old at 41 to wear Converse? Or is that more in keeping with the muttony not mumsy Mumsnet rule?

I love my converse but only wear them with trousers. With a skirt is a bit too teenage for my liking.

You have to have truly fabulous legs to wear converse with a skirt as they cut you on a unflattering part of your ankle

Totally agree- I'm 25 and don't generally give a toss what I look like but I would not wear cons with a skirt/dress.

Maybe the platform ones from last summer. Not flats.

Thanks - as I thought but secretly hoped someone would come along and say it was fine so I can justify a purchase to DH.

bethelbeth - can't walk the two mile round trip in platforms without breaking my ankle

I think I may have worn converse the low ones with a denim skirt before.

i wear my converse(shoes not baseball boot type) with flowery dresses/skirts finishing above the knee.

i wear this type of shoe with skirts.....very comfy

Do it, its fine!!
I wear converse all the time, trousers / jeans in winter....dresses / skirts in summer.
Everyone seems to do it round my way.
Oh....and I am as young as you

OK IF you are tall young skinny with great legs and skirts are above the knee

Oooh its swaying in the other direction now - thanks

Sadly Fatty I am tall, but neither young nor skinny. I do have great calves though

I wear converse shoes with long and short skirts, as well as shorts.

well I do, and I am 40.

I've done it - only with low ones with a denim skirt and only really to festivals / gigs and the like. But I quite like it as a 'look'. I wish I had the guts to wear hi tops with leggings as my friend does and looks great. (But she's about 12ft tall and weighs 3 stone...)

I'm short and fat and nearly 40 and I am never out of my converse (shoes). Skirts, dresses, jeans, anything. Who cares if some body fascist thinks to themselves that my legs aren't right for the shoes? Fuck 'em, I say. My feet, my shoes

Way to Go Ghost

Ghost

Well, who are we dressing for? Ourselves or some strangers?

I wear converse shoes with my denim skirt.

Anyway, wearing trainers in summer is just stinky

Momentarily thinking I was on facebook there, I was looking for the "Like" button on ghostinthebackofyourhead's and bluddymofo's posts!!

ooh yes a "like" button on MN would be great as well as a "dislike" button

I like the look of converse, especially with short skirts or dresses.

However I have flat feet, and need more arch support than converse allow. Is there anything I can wear, other than birkies or dowdy ecco?

I like Converse with opaque tights and a short flowery skirt.

You don't have have great legs to wear them, but they are not flattering on the ankles if that matters to you.

Not so keen on Converse and mid length skirt mumsy look.

I like plimsoll/ low converse type shoes with long skirts hippy style, but I am v old!