https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/passed-up-leather-skirt--imaginary-lifestyle Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 05 May 2026 01:25:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/passed-up-leather-skirt--imaginary-lifestyle#post-824354 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:22:46 +0000 Caro in Oz 824354@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You are so right - they need to be items you will use not just ones that will sit in the wardrobe making you feel depressed. I started writing all the things I didn't buy in a list in my phone - it was amazing how much they added up to over a season. It made me realise I could spend a lot more on clothes I loved &amp; would wear. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/passed-up-leather-skirt--imaginary-lifestyle#post-824346 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:09:30 +0000 Deborah 824346@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well done! Sounds like you have your thinking in the right place. The item sounds so gorgeous, I can understand how hard it may have been to pass up. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/passed-up-leather-skirt--imaginary-lifestyle#post-824341 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:56:29 +0000 unfrumped 824341@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thistle, your words hit it --"something so beautiful"'. A good reminder that beautiful and luscious items - really a luxury item- have a place in my wardrobe if it's the right item for me but not just to sit in the closet being beautiful and unused. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/passed-up-leather-skirt--imaginary-lifestyle#post-824248 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:40:46 +0000 Transcona Shannon 824248@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm applauding you like crazy right now - good for you for walking away. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/passed-up-leather-skirt--imaginary-lifestyle#post-824246 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:36:03 +0000 Anonymous 824246@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I admire your self discipline. You can save the money for something that will better fit your style and life. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/passed-up-leather-skirt--imaginary-lifestyle#post-824222 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:56:56 +0000 Raisin 824222@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sometimes passing on an item is hard to do, but right. If it was just going to become an orphan, no sale is worth it! Great job resisting! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/passed-up-leather-skirt--imaginary-lifestyle#post-824113 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:38:15 +0000 Lyn D. 824113@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well done!<br /> Someone else will buy it and love it I am sure, and you can put the money towards an item you will wear and enjoy. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/passed-up-leather-skirt--imaginary-lifestyle#post-824105 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:19:43 +0000 Thistle 824105@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Good for you! So hard when the item is so beautiful, but you are correct on all of your points. It is not right for your lifestyle, so best to leave it behind, regardless of what a good deal it was. If you won't wear it, and you won't , it's $139 wasted. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/passed-up-leather-skirt--imaginary-lifestyle#post-824092 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:26:53 +0000 unfrumped 824092@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Never have owned a leather skirt, and it's not on any list I've ever made.</p> <p>However...</p> <p>Was in Marshalls and right there was a Tahari leather skirt in a kind of burgundy-brown color. Price $139 with regular label of about $800. Like a gold nugget amongst all the usual so-so items. Size 4. Hmmm.</p> <p>I tried it on and I believe it fit. Maybe take up waist, if picky and if wanted to tuck in. Leather like butter. Just delicious.</p> <p>However...it was about mid-calf length. A very tricky length for me, adds dowdiness factor and is a problem for footwear, which is already a problem for me with skirts at all; I mean as opposed to a just-over-the-knee length, which I would consider good for a leather skirt. Style and zipper-slit precluded add'l alterations even if I wanted to pay. Also it had a front slit, fairly high, of course would wear tights but was just a bit "suggestive" in its placement for facing off with patients, if you know what I mean.</p> <p>I must say I was tempted to take it home so I could "examine" it further before anyone else bought it--just own it for a few days and then take it back. The color and quality of leather was enough to make you swoon. But in reality, I couldn't really use it; I could barely use a leather skirt at all IRL and would not expect to get enough wearings if not able to use at work; but I swear if it had been made a little differently I might have bought it, if only to pet it from time to time!</p> <p>Anyway, this does remind me that there can be a place for leather in my life, as I learned with my leather jacket I bought last year, but it really belongs up top--jacket or vest--because then there I can wear many times, and what's the use of leather if you don't get to experience the feel while actually wearing it? I actually had a burgundy leather jacket from Nordstrom's in my shopping cart but am having second thoughts about the styling. Again, the skirt kind of helped set the tone for the "feel" of the leather and I would love to duplicate that in a topper. </p>