sKirTs

The skirt on the left, I have had for a long time.

I wear it ALL the time.  That's why it's faded.

I couldn't believe my eyes when there was one at a thrift store for $2!  I bought it and will probably fade it out also.  I love the colors...and LOTS of tops go with this skirt. (s)

It may look like I spend LOTS of $$$ on skirts.

I don't.

Most of the skirts I own cost less than $1....some may have cost me all of fifty cents.

I do have a lot of skirts, but that's what I wear. 

All the time.  I might go back to jumpers, but right now I am wearing skirts.  It's fun to have a choice, it's also fun to sew and to find them!

I'm waiting for the Holidays so I can wear this skirt.

Hopefully I can find a red top to go with it.

It is a whimisical skirt....lots of snowy bunnys and snowflakes.  I can't wait to wear this!!

These skirts used to be dresses....until today. I was going through my closet looking for something and I ran across these.  I put them up and haven't been wearing them. I cut the tops/bodices off of them and now they are skirts!  I bought fabric at the old Goodwill store here in town long long ago and made the green dress.  It was kind of wild, but I liked it.  I'm thinking the fabric in the middle came from Ghana!  The skirt on the left reminds me of a fire....I cannot bring myself to wear this until it is cold.

I bought two Land's End skirts from a thrift store with my daughter Sara in the little town she lives in.  She actually found them, and I grabbed them from her. 

I had a dark colored one years ago in the same style, and I wore it out.  I was tickled to find these.....I will also be tickled when they are too big for me.....

A long time ago, James's mom told me I needed a black skirt.  I think I was mainly wearing jumpers and dresses at the time and wasn't too concerned when she told me.  This is a picture of a couple of black skirts I now own.  The one on the left is from Kimberly.  I traded her a stripey bag for it.  I got the one on the right just this past week-end.  It was 1/2 off at a thrift store.  Now I do think it's pretty important to have black skirts.  If I find a nice one and it fits....and I have money for it, I buy it.  I will wear black skirts the rest of my life....as I get nicer ones, I just get rid of the not so nice ones.

The skirts below are ones I have sewn.  Now remember, I am getting fabric for next to nothing for the clothes I sew for myself.  The elastic usually costs more than the material! 

i love these skirts !!

  Almost every time I am fixing to go somewhere and ask Lydia what I should wear, her answer is usually this....."wear the MEOW skirt!"

I do remember paying 50cents for the flowery fabric....and over a dollar for the elastic! It's one of my favorite things to wear.  I am always on the look-out for a good black top, it used to be black skirts I couldn't find.  Most tops available today are made to be worn TIGHT and LOW and I don't want either.

There are three skirts pictured above....not just one.  These skirts can be folded and put in a suitcase and worn without ironing!  I like these, too. 

 They are my fancy skirts.

Last, but not least.  Last, but not all.

I have more.....

This is crazy, but the same top will go with both of these skirts!  Yellow! 

I have been greatly blessed by living in the area I do.

The thrift stores I go to don't charge more than $2.00 for a skirt....and sometimes it's even 25cents! 

But if I only had three skirts to my name and pants were free, I'd wear the skirts.  And never blink an eye.

Wearing a skirt will not make you modest, but it's a good place to start.  You gotta start somewhere.

Just do it.