Received wisdom says only teenagers and the very slim should wear minis, while maxis remain the preserve of older ladies. But what if you want to break the rules? Standing in the village shop, I am positively squirming with embarrassment.
Behind me someone is sniggering, muffling the sound with their hand. I remember that excruciating scene in The Witches Of Eastwick when a sexily dressed Susan Sarandon goes to buy groceries and the disapproving local women stand behind her muttering. Emma says: I am walking through our paddock leading one of our ponies. The setting is beautiful. The fields are green and the hedgerows bright with bluebells. The only thing spoiling this romantic vision is me.
Although my dress is floating around me, lending me a flavour of some latter-day pre-Raphaelite heroine, it is so long it has tripped me up three times. I finally resign myself to holding it up, at which point I start to resemble a giant yellow watermelon. The ponies are intrigued by my brightly coloured riding gear and keep nibbling my skirt. Even worse, the bees think I am a large flower and are hovering hopefully around me. I know all about the fashion for miniskirts, and I wear them all the time.
But somehow the maxi-dress look has eluded my friends and I. I am quite short - 5ft 1in, and I have big boobs. While a short skirt makes me look taller, I'm worried that a maxi-dress will swamp me. Also, I usually wear dark colours, and I notice that maxi-dresses tend to be very bright.
My fears are far from quelled by a trip to the pub, when I wear a halterneck blue gown by Warehouse. It is very tight under my boobs and I have the odd sensation of feeling exposed, despite wearing a full-length dress.
When I walk into the pub, the drinkers all stare in amused curiosity. The barmaid can barely pour my drink, so hysterical with laughter is she, and the owners pop out to say hello and join in the mirth. I feel very silly. Everyone else is wearing jeans or hiking gear, so I look most incongruous. However, there is a secret part of me that loves the dress. It is very flattering because it clings in all the right places.
In fact, though it is supposed to be a day dress, it would be perfect for a black-tie event. Like yesterday's offering, I would look brilliant at a ball, but trying to watch telly with great folds of material swamping the sofa feels rather silly, and tidying my bedroom nearly cripples me as I trip repeatedly over my skirt.
Things don't improve when I go shopping for the day in a Topshop maxi. Driving in it is life-threatening when the hem keeps getting caught up in the pedals. Eventually, I hoist it up over my knees. When I arrive at the shopping centre, I feel self-conscious - and with good reason.
Everyone is staring at me. Maxi-dresses may be de rigueur in Soho, but in a sleepy Devon market town I stick out like a sore thumb. It is truly gorgeous and I am determined to buy it after the skirt-swop experiment is over.
I love the colours. I ask two girlfriends what they think of it. They agreed that I looked fine for a party, but totally wrong for A-level classes. Yes, there is a time and a place for these dresses. But for daywear, I'll stick to miniskirts. I loved Mum's look. I think she's got great legs, so I don't see why she can't wear a mini. I suppose there will be plenty of people who think women her age shouldn't wear them, but I was pleasantly surprised that she looked so good.
However, she would have looked better on a beach in Barbados than in the middle of our village. The Dailymail. Kathrin Member. Oct 22, 0 Sydney, Australia. It depends on the Mum! My mum says she no longer likes showing her knees she turns 63 in two months. I think she still looks fab for being in her sixties, but she says she feels to old to show her knees.
But, I have friends who are Mum's I am 24, they are around , so of course they have no problem with it. Dec 14, 2, 8 NYC. If she looks like Victoria Beckham, then sure. She returned them.
However, I did see an Instagram pic of her friend wearing one of the same tops in the park! However, part of me thinks that they are young and have the figures so why not let them wear the skimpy clothes.
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