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The new trend for mid-calf length skirts is dividing the fashion world
The midi - a skirt with a hemline mid calf - is a trend that is provoking stong opinions. Is it the epitome of ladlike chic, or a sure way to make your calves look fat? Here two style experts take sides on the new midi skirt craze.
Author Sophie Parkin, 45, lives in South London and has two teenage children. She says:
Skirts are coming down and so are dresses. Hooray!
For someone suffering from terminally bad orange-peel thighs - and I know I'm not the only one - the news from the catwalk that the midi length is back is as much a relief as a celebration.
If, like me, you can remember the midi - the mid-calf length, last "in" during the early 1970s - you're of an age where it's wonderful news.
Some claim it's an "unflattering" length, but I wonder if they are considering the alternatives - they certainly haven't seen me in shorts or, God forbid, hot-pants (now that's a length I'd call unflattering).
The midi is the perfect length for the over-40s. It encourages you to cover up those horrible nobbly, saggy Demi Moore knee problems and hide your bicycle calves; it also insists that you get out some flattering heels and put away the clunking sandal wedges that seemed like a good idea at the beginning of the summer.
Whether A-line or pencil, the midi encourages seamed stockings, to the delight of manufacturers of suspender belts, lingerie addicts and men everywhere. A midi will never look good with trendy, hideous footless tights
The sophistication of its length recalls Ava Gardner's suggestive sensuality. The midi demands the appropriate undergarments of fantasy silks and satins. Even in the 1970s version, neither Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway nor Charlotte Rampling looked frumpy in their midis.
Far from being unflattering, the midi enables me to show off my slim waist and trim ankles - "old-fashioned requisites of refinement that never go out of fashion," as my granny used to say.
More important, it forgives everything else in between, as long as you can learn to sashay in a tight pencil skirt ( accentuate the positive) and not lose your balance (bottom in, shoulders back, stand very tall in heels).
It's a lot sexier than any short skirt because it leaves more to the imagination than all that fake tanned flesh on display. It's also a less embarrassing look for real women than any amount of empire-line smocks with shorts, ballet pumps or plimsolls, which should, quite frankly, be left to the kids.
Terrifyingly, the midi skirt - a hideously unflattering cut that carves your calves in half at their widest point, thickening the ankles and shortening the legs in an instant - is this season's biggest trend.
However you sex it up, even if you go commando, it simply does not work.
Since when was it cool to dress like the Queen? Just because Camilla is trying to win her over does not mean we all have to follow suit - except on the few occasions when wearing a "midi" is acceptable.
These are: if you can balance on 10in heels; you're off to a fancy dress party as Barbara Woodhouse; you want to look as inappropriately fashionable as Meg Mathews; or you have a hideous, overamorous suitor you wish to put off for ever.
And speaking of sex appeal, surely all of us - save giraffes, Elle Macpherson and a few other lucky gals - want to make our legs look longer. So why would we want to cut them off at the widest part of the shortest section? It makes no sense and sees the erstwhile swan revert to ugly duckling (and old fogey to boot) in the time it takes to do up the zip.
It's a well-known fact that the hemline drops with age, so at a time when we do all we can to maintain our youth, why do we suddenly want to throw ourselves into retirement?
Yes, Chloe, D&G, Miu Miu, Lanvin and even Topshop are pushing us to our fashion limits with the revival of all things unflattering, but we must stand firm.
There is a sartorial rule of thumb we should all live by: if a skeletal supermodel earning £10,000 a day to make clothes look good resembles a librarian with water retention when donning a midi, then what hope is there for us mere mortals?
Imagine yourself in the midi - take it from the catwalk to the street. If what you see is the woman in the Charlie scent advert, with a beaming smile, floppy-brimmed hat over-shiny hair and a flowing skirt marching forth to the free-living spirited future, wipe this image from your mind. Replace it with the reality.
Think back to when you were in your teens and your mother bought you your first, and hopefully last, midi-length Laura Ashley corduroy skirt. Need we say more?
Ladies, in a season where almost anything goes, you can have fun. Wide-legged pants equal long slim legs; knee-length pencil skirts equal long slim legs; shift dresses and sharp suits, all good.
Kelly Osbourne in her goth-inspired midi
. . . you work it out.
When it comes to skirts, high waisted pencil skirts are my absolute favorite. They tend to be quick and easy when your in a wardrobe crunch and can be made in a matter of minutes. I made this one using this silk jersey from Mood that feels so incredibly rich. Following the instructions below, I challenge you to whip your own up.
Tools:
Stretch jersey/knit fabric approx
Thread
Tape measure
Yard stick
Rotary cutter or scissors
1. Measure your waist just below your belly button, divide that number in half-make note of that number (for curvier figures, add 1" to that number).
2. Measure from your belly button down to where you want your skirt to end and add 1/2 inch-make note of that number.
3. Fold your fabric in have length wise and using your yard stick mark the above measurements on your fabric. ex: waist 28 /2 17 +1 18" by length 30 1/2" and cut your fabric to those measurements.
3. Fold the fabric so the correct side of the fabric is touching each other and sew this side seam closed.
4. Once the seam is closed, lay your fabric flat with the seam on your left and starting at the top left, cut fabric at a diagonal removing only 1" from the right side.
5. For the waist band, measure the smallest part of your waist and divide the number- make note of that number.
6. Cut a piece of fabric, 7" x your waist measurement.
7. Fold the fabric so the correct side of the fabric is touching each other and sew this waist side seam closed.
8. Lay the waist band flat at the top of the skirt edge and cut the bottom of the waist band at the angle that corresponds with the edge of the skirt.
9. Sew the waist band to the skirt
10. Fold the waist band over 3" and hem.
11. Fold your skirt hem under 1/2" and hem

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