Wears Maxi Skirts

The Famous Maxi Skirt op shopped from Aeon on
Cuba St in Wellington.

When everyone was buying Maxi skirts I vowed to myself that I would never follow that trend. Oh well I guess I broke that vow because as the photographic evidence above shows. I, Lily Gray bought a maxi skirt. What can I say I finally tried one on and I liked it!

Today was my experiment with wearing a maxi skirt to University. Before I start my spiel I must confess it was a little bit difficult. You see I had to catch the bus to university.

Of course I missed my bus this morning. That meant I had to wait for an uncomfortably long period of time at the bus stop, during which time a man in a car drove past me and stared at me for a good 200 m. I guess they didn't have maxi skirts in Palmerston North until I came along...

Then I had to stumble onto the bus. I think stumble is the right word because although I've read extensively about the maxi skirt in Fashion Quarterly they forgot to mention one important detail. Maxi skirts/dresses are horribly impractical. Today I found myself tripping over my skirt going up stairs and down stairs and I even had to awkwardly hitch up my skirt while I was walking through my horses paddock. Maxi skirts aren't made for walking or doing anything vaguely physical (except perhaps shopping). The especially uncomfortable thing was that when I tripped over my hemline I found that my skirt would slip down and expose my petticoat. I was perilously close to a disaster, I could have flashed my undies!*

So I now know that maxi skirts are horribly impractical. Although if I were to choose my clothes based on practicality I'd end up wearing track pants and sneakers 24/7...shudder. I believe that in clothing there must be a balance of wear ability and style. How did the maxi skirt measure on the style front? Well I got complimented by four different people today. Ergo very stylish and a must wear.

I shall just have to pick out a day when I'm doing very lady like things to wear it.

*Although that's quite modest when you take into account that when I arrived at the Equestrian center today there were six vet students posing naked for a nude photo shoot for their calendar. I was a little bit surprised to say the least... A little bit of an eye sore...