#swishy skirts

[doomspaniels]

What are you doing with all that hair? You are a working line, what could you possibly need with those luscious locks?

... are you smuggling toys in your skirts?

[artianaiolanthe]

Since I was just spreading the good word of @mayakern 's skirts!

(he/they before anyone sees this)

[broresteia]

a recent fit i enjoyed

[terrified-spider]

I just finished a commission for @starry-eyed-kiddo, of his OC Beatrice Stillwater, dancing with Rudolph van Richten! (:

My commissions are still open, feel free to shoot me a message if you're interested in some art! (:

[bokettochild]

I want... to draw... Legend............. in cute outfits

but that means drawing

and sitting still working on one thing for hours at a time

and if I do it on paper it won't turn out right

but if I do it on the computer than I have to colour it

and colouring is my achillies heel

I can't T-T

[princess-lointaine]

the 'peach fuzz' garden party dress, by selkie.

[transmasc-rose]

@quietwingsinthesky even for you.

[janeeyreofmanderley]

Every time someone writes about a historical woman wishing she could wear trousers because skirts are so impractical....I wonder which specific skirts we are talking about and if they ever wore skirts.

True, some skirts are impractical in some situations. Running through brambles in a silk skirt? Do not recommend. Wearing a full on Baroque Gown? Also not very practical, sure.

However, as someone who only wears skirts and dresses for more than 10 years now, and often long skirts, I must say skirts are really given an unfairly bad reputation in literature and generally.

I wear skirts hiking, cycling, walking, in the city, in the countryside, at home, while gardening- and never found them impractical.

Indeed most of the times I find them more relaxed and comfortable than the jeans I used to wear. Also sitting crosslegged and doing crafts with a skirt is amazing, because you can collect all the material you need in the skirt, just to name one advantage.

When people ask me about my skirts being impractical I always point out I wear different skirts for different uses. For gardening I use an old ratty one, where I don't mind the roses tearing small holes in it. For cycling I don't wear a floorlength skirt, for walking literally anything but a pencil one.

Skirts are not per se less practical, more restricting than trousers. You just have to pick the right one, same way as you wouldn't wear tuxedo trousers to dig in the garden, or go riding.

So,letting women wear trousers is not an automatical "get out of patriarchy jail" card, because it often is not exactly improving the situation for them. Rather it is just another instance where sth typically feminie is immediatly disregarded as stupid...

[are-we-really-doing-this]

Alright JOEY, if we can't get the tight trunks back (SAD. ☹️), then can we at least get this moment one more time?

[madmutts]

congrats on skirt time :3

Skirt time adds +50 to my HP.

[nintendont2502]

Anyway t4t Junedavesprite (transfem June) (agender any pronouns davesprite) (they're birdfriend and girlfriend) (they're both struggling *HARD* after the game) (they help each other through it) (they're gay) (they're gay) (they're so fucking gay).

You agree.

Reblog.

[jon-withnoh]

Big event with schools at work today. An exhausted looking teacher approaches me to ask a question, looks me up and down and says:

„Excuse me, do you know— but no, of course you don’t. You’re one of us.“

Assigned Primary School Teacher at Work Event.

[resssistance]

Kateřina Mrázková and Daniel Mrázek / RD A Evaristo Carriego; España cañí Junior Grand Prix Final 2022 photo by Marco Mantovani   

[reallifepotato]

I shortened a skirt I bought, it's a circle skirt with a heart pattern. It's so cute now I'm so excited to wear it

[queen-scribbles]

Modern AU Jas 100% has these shoes and wears them all the damn time. 🦋

[discountalien-pancake]

I don’t believe in fate, and I don’t believe that objects have souls, but sometimes the universe is serendipitous.

When I bought this collar, all I knew was that it was a) definitely Edwardian, and b) it was mine, because somehow it had not yet been claimed even though it had been over an hour since it was listed and this seller’s listings get claimed within seconds of posting. It arrived. It was Edwardian. It was so fucking beautiful. The lace is soft and airy and seemingly delicate, but the threads are in excellent condition.

And like I mentioned before, I am not shy about using antique textiles. I did know that I didn’t want to cut into the lace, because it had finished edges and was not an infinite repeat in the way that lace edgings or insertions often are—the flat yoke and the flounce were both discrete pieces. So I spent several hours painstakingly taking out the original seam holding the two together. This was thankfully a simple running stitch and I was able to remove it without damaging the lace at all. The flounce was long:

It is folded in half in the image above. Much too long for me to sew into any kind of blouse without cutting it. So I toyed with the idea of making it into a frilly Edwardian petticoat.

Guys.

Guys. It is exactly the right length. That is some serious serendipity at work.