"how can I tell if my pencil skirt is too tight"
"how do I know if my pencil skirt is too tight?"
"how tight are pencil skirts suppose to be"
"how to tell if a skirt is too tight"
"how to tell when a pencil skirt is too small"
"is your pencil skirt too tight"
"pencil skirt tight"
"pencil skirt bunch"
I've been doing some thinking.
Listed above are the terms that most often lead to my blog. More often than not, they will lead you to this posting from two years ago: Is my pencil skirt too tight?
As the above statement implies, your pencil skirt can be too tight depending on the occasion for wearing it. With that confusion, lets setup some parameters for pencil skirt tightness. Given that I'm more scientifically minded, I think I'm probably going to have to develop a flow chart for this post, but for now, we'll just go down a list of relevant questions. We have 3 (THREE) main situations to consider:
1. Occasion
2. Fabric
3. Personal Comfort
Parameters for Skirt Tightness
1. Is this skirt for: WORK or PLAY?
First, any skirt for play can encompass work skirts, but it usually can't go the other way around. Secondly, for visuals on how a work pencil skirt should fit, look at: Ann Taylor, and JCrew. Most of the pencil skirts listed show an appropriate level of tightness for a work environment. If you don't like your butt being hugged at all, then go ahead and play in your work clothes.
To see the fit for "play" pencil skirts, look at the pencil skirts listed at Urban Outfitters and American Apparel. It's a little unfortunate that most of the sites are limited in the scope of the sizes they chose for their live models (a lot of them are skinny with no butts or hips), but the Interlock Pencil Skirt from American Apparel provides a nice movie with someone a little more on the bodacious side.
Look at the pictures and the movies provided. While no one has a pencil skirt that is quite obviously ill fitting, there are a few movies where the person actually pulls their skirt down a bit - don't regard this as normal behavior, this is called "I'm uncomfortable with how much my skirt rides up" behavior.
2. Fabric
If you observe the sites listed in the first category, you'll see that generally, pencils skirts for the work environment are less stretchy while skirts for play have a higher degree of elastic to them.
On a skirt with very little stretch, trying to force your body into that situation means at least one if not all three of these things:
- at some point the skirt will rip down the seam because you're putting too much stress on it.
- with too much stress on fabric that has no give, your squishy parts will distribute to ease the stress on the fabric
-your skirt will obviously bunch and pucker when you walk. You can refer back to the original post for the reference pictures.
I've gained more weight. The Happenstance Skirt has done everything but rip.
Look at the pictures and the movies provided. While no one has a pencil skirt that is quite obviously ill fitting, there are a few movies where the person actually pulls their skirt down a bit - don't regard this as normal behavior, this is called "I'm uncomfortable with how much my skirt rides up" behavior.
2. Fabric
If you observe the sites listed in the first category, you'll see that generally, pencils skirts for the work environment are less stretchy while skirts for play have a higher degree of elastic to them.
On a skirt with very little stretch, trying to force your body into that situation means at least one if not all three of these things:
- at some point the skirt will rip down the seam because you're putting too much stress on it.
- with too much stress on fabric that has no give, your squishy parts will distribute to ease the stress on the fabric
-your skirt will obviously bunch and pucker when you walk. You can refer back to the original post for the reference pictures.
I've gained more weight. The Happenstance Skirt has done everything but rip.
Skirts with more elastic ("play" skirts) are suppose to hug your curves, but even elastic has it's limits and when you find your self reaching that limit, it's like the skirt has no stretch at all.
You're looking for friction, enough to hold your skirt in place, but not so much that your skirt will take the opportunity to bunch and pucker.
3. Personal comfort
Pencil skirts can be comfortable. It's not fashion dogma that they have to be uncomfortable. This is probably the question that brought you here in the first place. Do you like being in your pencil skirt? I'm no doctor, but I do know that tight clothing increases your blood clot risk.
Exceptions:
Pencils skirts with the RUCHING!!! Bunches up? It's suppose to. Look tight? It's suppose to. Feel good? I hope you do.
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