I don’t want to wear very short skirts, but I also don’t particularly want to look like a dowdy between-the-wars governess. Is that too much to ask? You wouldn’t have thought so. It seems entirely reasonable to expect that there might be an inch or two of sartorial middle ground somewhere between being a bare-thighed minx in this season’s Miu Miu miniskirt and a mousey wallflower mooning along with droopy hemlines trailing in her wake. That doesn’t seem too much to ask, does it? A skirt that looks modern, without being short.
I would love to be a short-skirt person. And I really have tried, I promise. But I don’t love my knees, at least not in flat shoes, and only rarely can I rouse myself to a pair of high heels these days. I realise this is a hopelessly old-fashioned lack of body positivity and I should probably keep quiet, but I’ve always been useless at lying so we are where we are. One can’t be on trend all the time.
