https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 28 May 2026 08:32:32 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young#post-701347 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:33:04 +0000 Anonymous 701347@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It's tough to pull off. That's for sure. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young#post-701264 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:47:46 +0000 rachylou 701264@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think the style isn't so much young as fashion forward. But I think they make everyone look like they're doing the Heidi climb up the mountain (whereupon Heidi wears all her clothes to carry them up, for lack of a suitcase). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young#post-701188 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:33:33 +0000 Scarlet 701188@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Um, I am here to tell you 5'7" is tall. I really like that skirt, but I am a pipsqueak. Actually I have a black chiffon mini that I haven't worn in the last year cause I just wasn't sure about it. I also have a white ruffled one back home. Once they fit again I will have to test them out. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young#post-701186 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:31:12 +0000 Mo 701186@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My first association was also cheerleaders, FWIW. A touch longer solves that, though, as Angie mentioned. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young#post-701184 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:27:54 +0000 annagybe 701184@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've been catcalled. It just doesn't happen to me, and I lived in the Bronx for a year even.<br /> I know my style has shifted somewhat but I haven't figured out wear I'm going. So I'm putting out fashion feelers. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young#post-701183 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:21:14 +0000 ironkurtin 701183@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Anna, don't do it. I wore a shorty pleated skirt like this the last time they were popular, in the mid-90s. I wore it with opaque black tights and a black sweater and thought I looked great. And maybe I would have, downtown. But I lived in midtown and I was harassed so badly by every taxi driver going by that I ran into the Gap and bought the first skirt I could grab. Never again. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young#post-701180 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:13:55 +0000 Thistle 701180@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I remember wearing skirts like this in high school. As such, I am biased against thinking they are for the young. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young#post-701176 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:10:26 +0000 Angie 701176@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Anna, you come across taller than that because you are long limbed. It's one of the reasons you integrate flats so easily into your outfits. Ladies in Japan are virtually all petite. 5ft to 5ft 2 is a common height. Petites wear shorter skirts (not micro minis) extremely well and up to an older age. Somehow the shorter height takes away the juvenile factor. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young#post-701158 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:58:05 +0000 annagybe 701158@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for the clarification. I don't think I'm very tall (only 5'7"), but yeah it's probably tall enough to make a difference. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young#post-701150 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:54:35 +0000 Angie 701150@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>There are lots of very stylish Japanese ladies in Japan wearing short pleated skirts at your age Anna, but they are shorter than you are (point number one), and wear the length a little longer (point number two). Those details make the difference. </p> <p>A very short pleated leather skirt is not a style I would suggest you purchase. A longer pleated leather skirt - for sure and with my blessing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young#post-701142 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:47:31 +0000 Arya 701142@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I made the mistake of buying a short pleated skirt at BR a couple of summers ago. It's really difficult to avoid the cheerleader look, and even if I manage it I always feel like it's a too young (for me) look.</p> <p>That said, this particular skirt looks much more chic than mine, and styled as it is in the photo it is certainly a more mature/urban/cool look. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young#post-701140 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:41:49 +0000 Diana 701140@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I agree that it depends on how it's worn. I do think that this might be a style that you can't cheap out on though - I think cheaper fabrics are going to make it look like a cheerleader skirt. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young#post-701138 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:39:52 +0000 catgirl 701138@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmm, I don't think so... it depends on how it's worn, at least to me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-others-is-this-style-of-skirt-too-young#post-701114 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:54:08 +0000 annagybe 701114@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I've seen these short pleated skirts in a few places</p> <p><a href="http://www.neimanmarcus.com/p/See-by-Chloe-Batwing-Sleeve-Top-Pleated-Miniskirt/prod150350045_cat42640750__/?icid=&#038;searchType=EndecaDrivenCat&#038;rte=%252Fcategory.service%253FitemId%253Dcat42640750%2526pageSize%253D30%2526No%253D30%2526refinements%253D&#038;eItemId=prod150350045&#038;cmCat=product" rel="nofollow">http://www.neimanmarcus.com/p/.....at=product</a></p> <p>I remember it was either last year or the year before you said no to me in pleated leather skirt in this style. </p>