dressmaking for the younger crowd

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Really?? If you showed up for work in an office I ran I would send you home to change clothes. 2" below the crotch is not a skirt length! For heaven's sake make some things that are more professional looking.

I guess dressmaking really is for older ladies. This length works fine for younger girls, but I guess few of us make our own clothes.

Holy smokes. Around here that length is called "5 minutes to midnight". Unless your job includes giving lap dances, any garment that ends only

1 or 2 inches below the crotch is a shirt not a skirt. 3 inches above the crease of the knee (in the back) will give you a skirt that is "business short".

Kathleen

As a younger girl I would not wear a skirt 2 inches below the crotch. Not even out clubbing or to parties. I'm no prude but I also don't want to give the world an eyeful of my backside either. I also sew a lot of my own clothes so I can mimic my favourite designers (currently Largerfeld, Chloe, and Stella McCartney). You might feel really comfortable wearing skirts that length and so might your friends, and that's fine - but it's not appropriate for a workplace. Look around - how many workplaces do you see where girls (your own age as well) are wearing skirts that length?

Exactly how old ARE you? I've been making clothing WAY before I even started high school and even when I was young and stupid - going to clubs until all hours and such - I *never* wore anything that short. I'd really watch how you categorize people because we actually have some young ladies in the group. Myself, I'm only 32. I have been making myself work/socail clothing for years now, and the length has never gotten to the point where a comment would be made about what my job was. It;s all in the style of the garment really. Get yourself to a fabric store or look at patterns online. I;ve noticed that most of the pattern comapnies are tailoring their designs to a "younger" crowd. Maybe that way you can find yourself something that is acceptabel to both you AND your boss. Otherwise, you could find yourself entertaining offers that you don't (or maybe you do?) want, but out of a steady job at a shoe store.

i am 19, and my skirts are similar to my friends. i'm not sure what the big deal is, this is not unusual for girls. this length is short but still keeps me covered.

actually i work in a mall shoe store and i was told to wear someting stylish by my previous boss, who never gave me a problem. my new boss is older, though and maybe she likes more conservative dress. anyway, i will check out some of your suggestions. thanks!

i was thinking if you're riding a pole or lap dancing or similar place of work.

'any' movement of 'any' part of the body in a dress and you'd be hanging out in the breeze and everyone would see everything. a skirt doesnt move as much but what are you thinking???

2 inches is not low enough to cover a damn thing. either get some decent clothes on or get a new job. sorry but that is indecent. how bout wearing hot pants underneath, like short shorts to keep the jewels covered.

i need coffee. jeanne

A good guideline is "fingertip length". Fintertip length is still cute, will show off your legs and not be considered slutty. Or, knee down and see if you skirt brushes the floor. Ask your supervisor for a specific number as a guideline. Do you gals realize that the big deal is that people can see up the back of your skirt unless you are very, very careful? And even if you are not? What's popular and in style is not always tasteful. Currently, the styles is to leave very little to the imagination. Covered is subjective: at the local downtown mall, on the UP escalator, it's a pretty regular occurance to get more than an eyeful of some girl's butt cheeks, with skirts of the length you mention, and a thong for *ahem* coverage.

lest you think we are all a bunch of fuddy - duddys, we aren't - I'm a very fit, athletic 40-something liberal. I like to wear short (er) skirts to show off my cyclist's legs, but I save the really short stuff to wear in private, I don't care to share with the world.

funny story- the other day I had an hour or so to kill, so I was doing some shopping at the mall. I went to VS for underwear, (yes, regular panties, no comments please) and as I was leaving I walked out down the main aisle, behind this couple shopping. She was bent over looking at something, and right as I pass within arm's reach behind them, he stick his hand down the back of her lo-rise jeans, grabs the little strap of elastic on her thong, pulls the strap out, and reads the size on the tag out to her. I was so close I could have touched them, and I started laughing so hard when I saw that, had to work at not laughing out loud, which turned into a snort, boy, did I leave that store fast.

LOL same here...I made my first blouse when I was 8 & I've been sewing ever since; made all of my skirts, dresses, blouses, prom dresses while in school and also made my maternity clothes. I'm 52 now! Even when I was 18 and had moved out of the house, and could REALLY let my hair down and wear anything I wanted, I never wore anything that short! *tight* maybe, but not that short...! :)

-Irene

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I meant thumb length, that's a little shorter. ;-)

Do I have stunted arms and never realized? "Fingertip length" for me _would_ be as long as Tresa's skirts are.

I thought you were going to say he gave her an atomic wedgie.

When my daughter started horseback riding she complained that her underwear bunched and rode up. None of the typical styles were any better; bikini, high cut, boylegs, they all "roll up into a rope and I end up chewing cloth". Talk about getting your panties in a bunch...

Finally a fellow horsewoman told her that what she needed was thong underwear, "No matter what kind of underpants you wear they're all gonna creep up on you, so better a string than a rope, eh?"

Apparently she was correct. My daughter says they are much more comfortable, at least for riding. You probably don't want to leave your basket of clean laundry sitting out in the hall, though, where your 11 year old brother can grab your thong off the top of the stack and run around the house with it, seeing how many potential uses he could think of... "Look, it's a pirate's eye patch! No,it's a slingshot! It's buttfloss!" "Ow".

Kathleen

If you are at work - a business, not a street corner - you should wear skirts to the knee at least. Or pants if you like. Did you really mean 2 inches? as in 5 centimeters? And no I am not some old woman, I am in my 20's.

Michelle Giordano

if i wore a knee length skirt at a fashion shoe store i would be fired. how dowdy can you be? i am not some paralegal in a conservative law firm, nor a capitol hill staffer. give me a break! and i cant wear pants because my hips are too wide; if they fit the legs, my butt gets squeezed out the back of my pants like two watermelon seeds if i squat, and if my butt fits right then my legs are floating in a baggy shroud. what's the big deal?

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And I'm a getting fitter former bra and shoeless hippy! But I'm also a teacher and a professional dress and costume maker. Back when I was a little younger than you, I wore skirts as short as that - with matching Big Knickers under them so nowt showed that I didn't want showing! And I was in school, not working. For class I had to dress as if I worked in a lawyer's office or a bank: that was the dress code for school.

Save the frilly ikkle cute stuff for weekends and fun trips: dress professionally at work, especially in a shoe shop, where you are crawling about fitting shoes, and your bum is frequently higher than your head! I was buying shoes this week, for myself and my son. The ladies in our local shoe shop are very professional, and the younger lass (about your age) wears smart boot-cut trousers with a nice belt to complement her figure, and I have no idea what kind of knickers or belly button piercing she may or may not have, as all is decently hidden! :)

Oh, Penny! I have dripped tears of laughter on the keyboard! Pain is making me cranky this morning, and I really thank you for the giggle.

Maybe the USA is still wearing last year's fashions? Gasp! Oh, the horror... ;D There are some lovely versions in the Vogue catalogue...

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I agree that asking your boss what they think is right would be a good start if you want to keep this job that is. Then you can take their comments and work out a compromise skirt. Personaly speaking I prefer a skirt that doesn't reveal everything in a workplace situation, even from young trendy shop assistants. For me smartly dressed and decently coverd up, projects a professional attitude towards work. However I hear your dilemma that you work in a young environment so I am not suggesting you cover up to the ankle, thats why I think trying to ask your boss and take their opinion onboard would help you work out a good compromise skirt length. Life is about compromise in the end. Dresses are hard for us pear shaped people, I can agree with that as I am long waisted, swaybacked small busted and vary between a size 10 to 12 top and a 14/16 bottom.

Claire in Montréal, France.

Seems if the hips are that wide, a short skirt would only draw more attention to them. A longer skirt would draw the eye downward rather than right to the backside....

So I am curious...you work in a shoe store, so I imagine you need to bend over or down to put shoes on people's feet? And you're going to do this with a skirt that barely covers your butt? My son would love to know where this store is.

-Irene

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Dowdy LOL.

Here, take a look at this... All skirts from bluefly.com that a person could wear even to where I work (which is not a shoe store...farthest from it) and to a shoestore, restaurant, anywhere.

?Y15B2601C?C58B2201C?P2AB1201C?I3DB5201CAnd if anyone doesn't like my fashion sense..........well.............flltttt (thats me sticking my tongue out and blowing at you LOL)

If the OP still thinks those are dowdy, then here is the formula for a skirt:

Take two rectangles of lycra in the length you want your skirt, sew the two sides, hem top and bottom, but make sure the width is too tight for you. after you have sewn it, put vaseline all over yourself and jump into the skirt. That way you can get into it. And you still have that sleazy look that seems to be "so popular" wherever you live.

If you go anywhere else in the world dress less like the 1980's 15 year olds did and more like the skirts I showed you. another clue, shrunken blazers in rich fabrics are IN for fall/winter. You can wear your cone bra underneath if you really want.

HTH, if not then go BUY A PATTERN:

should have a short skirt in the girls or juniors section.

Michelle Giordano

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