Skirts and dresses

It has for me but that is because I have a very swollen ankle since it was pinned and plated following a fracture dislocation. I also cannot wear what I would call decent shoes. that is why I wear long trousers and lace ups.

I would love to wear trousers or three-quarter linens, knee length shorts etc.
I'm apple shaped and have short legs so unfortunately it's skirts for me

I like to wear a skirt but the weather has not been right on many days this year!

As far as I am concerned the skirt has had its day. I have worn trousers for years, do not actually posess a skirt now. I worked in a merchant bank in London in the early 70s. I joined the union there to push for the right for female employees to wear trousers at work. Seems like the dark ages now.

I'm a frock freak especially in the summer- love a nice frock. I tend to wear skirts more in the winter with nice woollies and boots. I don't like living in jeans and trousers makes me feel blokey!!!

I agree Teetime.
I do wear trousers and shorts for comfort, but if I want to feel as though I'm making an effort, it's got to be a dress or skirt with the right sort of shoes.
Clearing out some stuff recently we came across a book produced in the late 40's. It advocated putting on a decent dress, some costume jewellery and your makeup if you were intending to sew, as you would then be in the right frame of mind

I like to wear a skirt or dress in hot weather too.
Apart from a couple of very loose lightweight dresses that I wear when it's really hot, I have a couple of retro frocks that I bought (second hand) in the market here.
and I've been looking at another one:
fr.shein.com/Navy-Long-Sleeve-Floral-Maxi-Dress-p-240771-cat-1727.html
Might dare to buy it!
The main problem is my legs, real spindleshanks and lots of blue patches

I only have a couple of skirts and dresses. I'd love to have more but I'm a hard fit. I'm large chested and have a short and thick waist. Skirts have to be elastic waist and dresses big enough through the chest but don't fit tight in the waist. I feel flowing dresses make me look heavier. So I wear mainly trousers and tops.

I tend to wear trousers because my legs are not as lovely as they were.
They used to be one of my best features... Sadly no more.

I feel comfortable in trousers, and they suit me, so I wear them most of the time. I have worn a skirt once this year (I only have one!) and wore a dress last weekend because it was our anniversary and we were going out. I have to say I did feel rather nice in it and DH thought so too, but now it is back in the wardrobe and I can't imagine when I will wear it again. I often see a nice dress I could see myself wearing, but when I try them on, they mostly look awful.

My legs aren't great but I mainly wear trousers because they are more practical for rushing around with three small boys.

I think a skirt or dress looks better with a small heel or wedges, neither of which I can wear any more.

I noticed that most of the young mums in the park after school the other day were wearing strappy tops and skirts or dresses, and they all looked very nice!

I think you ladies are too critical about your legs, A nice pair of heels set off a ladies legs a treat. I have made a life long study and rarely see a leg that I don't admire. (except on a hairy Scot)

Ok, if you have had a knee replacement (as I have) wear a skirt that hides the scar. I do.

Have you had your legs defuzzed for Summer GandTea?

Oh yes, waxed, spray tan, the works.

Photo please?

That's a lovely dress Tricia go for it.
I too have blue patches on my (thin) legs but if others don't like them, that's their problem not mine

I agree GrandT heels do make legs look better.
You try walking in them though, I think a red sparkly pair would be your best bet

I like to wear a dress if I am going out somewhere nice, or if it it hot, especially abroad. Like others, skirts in the winter with boots.

BTW GrandT is it only Scottish hairy legs, you object to?

A dress is so easy to wear - just one thing to put on and it looks like you made a real effort. Kirsty Alsopp always wears a dress and has quite a curvy figure- you don't have to be super skinny to wear a frock. I have loads of dresses and skirts ( mostly made by me) and you can wear them all the year round with suitable layers etc. You can wear a long floaty skirt or dress in summer if you don't like your legs. They're just as comfortable, if not more so, than jeans or trousers, which I also wear a lot, but it's great to ring the changes. It's easy to get stuck in a rut with clothes.

Another reason I don't wear skirts and dresses very much is that, being only five feet tall, I often have difficulty finding something that is a comfortable length. Anything longer than just below the knee looks ridiculous on me. I can't wear cropped trousers for the same reason. If I had three wishes, one of them would be "please make me taller - another five inches would be nice!"

You've hit the nail on the head for me, Greyduster, I'm too short for most dresses and tend to look like a dancing lampshade if I'm not careful. Tunics and leggings are great as they give me the proportions of a taller woman in a dress! But I still feel as though I'm not properly dressed up unless I'm in a frock, so skimming the knee and a jacket on top seems the best solution if I must look respectable (not often!) even though it condemns me to looking dumpy too.

Swimhome I've got to remember that: dancing lampshade, hilarious.
Same here, I'm just on 5ft.

One of my issues about wearing a dress or skirt is that I have fat large legs, particularly at the top. Without tights, they rub against each other and get sore! So it's trousers all the way for me, though I would love to wear floaty dresses