These skirts - am I mad?

[Sadik]

They look cosy & perfect for winter - but I have a suspicion that on someone (ie me) not model shaped the effect may not be quite the same.... I particularly fancy this one but looking at the reviews probably too long, so maybe this one. this dress looks gorgeous too, but I am very much not a tall willowy teenager....

Love the dress!

I love the first one and the dress. Go for it if you like it!!

They could look a bit Plymouth Brethen if you're not careful. And also they seem quite expensive for a plain cord skirt.

The first one is 6% yak! Irresistible.

I love the first one, but I'm far too short for it.
You should get it though, it looks warm and lovely for winter.

I don’t like the dress (because I am large of breast and small of waist and this dress is very much not designed for hourglasses), and I don’t think weird asymmetric waistbands look good on many people. I do however love the first skirt - and it’s part yak!

Not doing it for me

If it doesn’t even look good on the model ....

But prob v. Comfy

I like the dress but the skirts look like something my Nan would have worn to go for a walk in the hills.

I'm short too IHaveBrilloHair - 5'2". It's not going to work, is it...

Trouble is I have proper mini skirts and above the knee skirts & both just feel dated right now. I want to wear a skirt with lovely wooly orange jumper for cold winter days!

I got a Poetry brochure sent through the post and love a lot of the clothes BUT on googling they have some pretty bad reviews for quality and customer service. If you buy, let us know how you get on.

Drab as a drab thing.

If you're not tall I would go for dress over skirts.

I think the look I'm trying to channel is 1950s farmers wife only no baler twine classier

Ah that's helpful info Ponks maybe better to beware given they're really not cheap

Awful!!! Terrible!!!! Sorry 😁

... am I mad?

Goodness. I was expecting something unspeakably outrageous! They're plain brown shapeless cord - what effect are you hoping for? Regardless of your own physical features those clothes will be completely invisible to the eyes of beholders in any normal circumstance.

(They're not nasty! Just quite stunningly drab.)

Like the first skirt. Love the dress. Second skirt is odd.

What skirt would you lot wear with a (burnt orange) wool jumper for this winter?

Not only that they look cheap and badly cut. £120 is not a small amount to spend on a skirt. For that you at least want something flattering and well made.

Definitely get the 1950s farmer’s wife aesthetic.

Skirts yes, dress no.
I love Poetry

I think what I actually want is 1950s farmers wife reimagined by Muji - I've got a camel coloured yak hair sort of smock/short tunic thing from them which sounds terrible but is incredibly flattering.

very frumpy - looks like per una circa 1995

I think the skirt could work if the widest point on your body is your belly. Mum is a real apple (belly bigger than chest and hip/bum) and looks amazing in midi courdroy skirts - it seems to really slim her down especially when worn with a thin cashmere knit. But the H&M / Uniqlo skirts are probably cheaper and better quality than Poetry.

Thing is, having known a few people who would actually have been 1950's farmers' wives, I'm a little furious that this shop is pulling the wool over your eyes. That's not how they dressed - at least that's not the sort of clothes they would ever have bought, new, from a shop. The only way they'd be wearing clothes like that is if they borrowed their husbands' cast offs. The clothes they bought would have been impossibly glamorous little sleeveless frocks, with scoop necks and tiny waists, in the prettiest possible prints. Invariably worn with a little string of pearls.

I am intrigued though, by the limited stocks of dye employed by this singularly unpoetic retailer ...