How to style a maxi skirt?

[ToadRage]

I do not wear maxi skirts a lot but my MiL made a comment about having to wear long skirts now cos of my AFO's. I'm not remotely ashamed of my AFO's and happy to show them off but thought I would try it anyway, I am only 5'2 and usually wear leggings with a short dress so long things are unfamiliar and tend to swamp me but I managed to find a lovely bright yellow maxi skirt that wasn't too long but I am unsure how to wear it. I just teamed it with a contrasting tshirt and my usual trainers that I wear with my AFO's. I really love this skirt but concerned it will end up like most of my clothes, always worn in the same way with the same things. I long for a capsule wardrobe but I have so many clothes.

What's an AFO?
I would wear a navy tshirt style top - COS has some lovely ones at the moment.

And trainers or birkenstocks

Are AFOs some sort of foot orthotics? I can only wear clodhopper shoes because of my orthotics. So if I want to dress up with a pretty frock, I wear it with my clodhoppers. Why should I have to sacrifice a pretty frock because others might think my feet are ugly?

That said, I do think they look good with a long skirt. I have a multi-coloured A-line skirt which I wear with solid colour tops. Always slightly figure-hugging tops cut for the female body, never 'unisex' t-shirts.

Birkenstocks are good because I can replace the proprietary footbed with my orthotic.

Also wish people wouldn’t use acronyms without explaining what they are. What’s AFO?

Navy t shirt as above or a clashing one like pink or orange if you’re feeling bold.

Yellow isn’t the easiest colour to style, but you could wear with white and either navy or black. I have a mustardy dress that I wear with a black bomber jacket & long leather boots. Is that the sort of thing you mean?

Air Force Ones I think

I am guessing, ankle foot orthosis - a brace to support the foot to stop problems like footdrop.

I no longer need an AFO myself but I can only have flat soft shoes that never look elegant but I have come to love a long pleated skirt with I fitted top fully tucked in or a looser one with a French tuck. I usually wear thick tights or leggings underneath

Sorry, ankle foot orthotics.

That reminds me of my Dad’s terrible jokes about aircraft carriers every time I had new school shoes as a child.