https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pencil-skirt-fit-1 Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:26:36 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pencil-skirt-fit-1#post-94257 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:39:39 +0000 Kari 94257@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi Christine! I was wondering what you had been up to. Hope the interview turns out well!</p> <p>I have pretty ample hips and a relatively smaller but short waist, so I know that a pencil skirt will look pretty tapered on me. I tend to purchase skirts that look pretty straight on the rack because they end up looking much more pencil-y on my body. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iFHBqlIPD1E/ShYgYYWWedI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/sgjK6N7yPmA/s1600-h/IMG_+649b.jpg">this</a> is what a straighter skirt looks like on me, and <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iFHBqlIPD1E/SqAMmQV2XPI/AAAAAAAABXE/7UA_1KV3L1I/s1600-h/IMG_+634b.jpg">this</a> is what a skirt that looks slightly tapered on the rack looks like. (I don't mind accentuating my curves sometimes.) Hope that helps some. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pencil-skirt-fit-1#post-94198 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:53:54 +0000 yublocka 94198@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Welcome back Christine! Glad to hear that your move went well!! Good luck in the interview!! I can't really help out with the pencil skirt advice because I don't wear them, but I am so impressed you are making yours!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pencil-skirt-fit-1#post-94158 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:39:09 +0000 Angie 94158@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Spot on, Shiny. Welcome back, Christine! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pencil-skirt-fit-1#post-94114 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:09:59 +0000 Inge 94114@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think Shiny might be right Christine. And I wanted to say welcome back, I had been wondering how you were doing. Glad to hear you and your family are settling in and good luck on Friday. (holding thumbs)! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pencil-skirt-fit-1#post-94089 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:34:03 +0000 shiny 94089@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Does this help?</p> <p><a href="http://www.anntaylor.com/catalog/category.jsp?N=1200010&#038;pCategoryId=3939&#038;categoryId=185&#038;Ns=CATEGORY_SEQ_185&#038;loc=LN" rel="nofollow">http://www.anntaylor.com/catal.....038;loc=LN</a></p> <p>From what I can gather, pencil skirts can either go straight down from the widest part, or they can taper in slightly towards the bottom. I suspect if you want to minimize the widest part the former is better than the latter. Me, I like to look as curvy as possible on my bottom half so a slightly tapered skirt is welcome. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pencil-skirt-fit-1#post-94088 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:28:11 +0000 ChristineB 94088@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi all, I'm sorry I haven't been around much the last few months. My family just completed a move to a new city, we've been settling in, job hunting, unpacking, all that good stuff. Oh, and my camera is lost in a box somewhere. I must be getting close to finding it because the boxes are diminishing greatly.</p> <p>Anyway, I have a third interview (with a company that I hope hires me) on Friday, and I want to wear my black pencil skirt &amp; black blazer. I made the skirt myself, and it's a little big, so I'm taking it in this week. The waistband will sit at my natural waist, and will hit just above the knee. My question is how a pencil skirt is supposed to fit. I'm SO used to everything being big in the waist that I'm really not sure how things are supposed to be. My widest part is my thighs, right where my legs hit my butt, kwim? Should the skirt be fairly fitted to there (my widest part) &amp; then fall straight down? I wish I could take pictures so you know what I mean. Any pictures, especially of pear &amp; hourglass ladies, would be very helpful too.</p> <p>Thanks! </p>