‘My coats are mostly knee-length, which is completely wrong with a long skirt’
My skirts have been getting longer since this summer. I’ve gone from mostly knee-length with the odd shorter skirt, to mostly mid-calf-length. It started because to-the-knee skirts and dresses, which I relied on as the Prada-esque grown-up-cool length for years, began to feel a bit office-wear. And not in a retro Mad Men way, just in a regular Monday morning way. A longer skirt makes me feel more sophisticated. (I am not at all sure the longer length actually does me any favours, but you can’t have everything.)
Anyway, the whole Below The Knee thing was going really smoothly. My midi skirts enabled a deeply satisfying dig-from-the-back-of-the-cupboard revival of two near-redundant categories of shoes: a pair of silver and a pair of black pointy kitten heels both totally worked, but only as long as I could brave bare legs; after that I switched to knee-length boots – black stretchy ones, and wrinkly tan suede ones – I hadn’t worn since the dark ages.
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