‘The long skirt – not just a smidge below the knee, but almost to the floor – is vying with Twin Peaks to be to 2015 what Kate Bush was to last year’
I never actually thought long skirts would come back into fashion. I thought they were over in the way pounds, shillings and pence are over and knowing friends’ landline numbers off by heart is over. Over like side-saddle dresses, and bustles. But I was wrong. (It happens.) The long skirt – not just a smidge below the knee, which has always been a thing, but almost to the floor – is vying with Twin Peaks to be to 2015 what Kate Bush was to last year.
In very specific scenarios, long skirts have always been doable. For evenings on holiday, for instance, especially for those of us who are mosquito catnip, they are agreeably loungy. But then the whole point of evenings on holiday is that you just sit outside in a fabulously slothful way, lounging around the table for hours after you’ve finished eating, without having to jump up to pack PE bags or deal with work emails, so you don’t have to worry about whether you’re going to trip over on the stairs. Plus, you’ve got a tan and had loads of sleep, so you look amazing in pyjamas.
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