Mini Skirts for Winter 2021

I honestly think that actual mini skirts look wrong on older women even if they have long slim legs (which sadly I don’t and never have had)

I wear short skirts in the winter with thick tights and short boots, but I do have skinny legs! Don't in the summer, I prefer long swishy cool skirts then. ?

I definatly will not. I think it looks shocking on older people.

Lucca I with you, shouldn’t have worn them in the sixties and definitely won’t be wearing them now! Apart from anything thing else they can be a bit chilly!

Funny enough Yamny many of my skirts are described as mini skirts especially if I pick one up from M&S but they still come to around knee length. Being on the short side anything long comes to my ankles.
I do prefer knee length or just above my legs aren't that bad whilst the rest of me has gone to pot lol

I was in my late thirties when I last had one. Used to wear mini dresses in teens and early twenties. These days I like maxi and like to see anything with a bit of swishy.

DiscoGran

I wear short skirts in the winter with thick tights and short boots, but I do have skinny legs! Don't in the summer, I prefer long swishy cool skirts then. ?

How short though ?

I just wouldn't! I still have slim legs but, I've noticed, older women lose the shape in their thighs and calves that makes legs look good. Even with thick tights or leggings, I'd never go shorter than knee length now.

(There's a gran, at the school, who wears jeggings and short jumpers. She's slim - but looks a real sight. Two stick legs, no bum and a bit of a tummy! Why don't people check their side and rear shape in a mirror?)

I always felt my legs were my best asset, and wore very short skirts in the late 60’s and 70’s.

I still think they are ok, would wear an above knee length with opaque black tights, but yes, as we age, minis don’t flatter us so much sadly.

Above the knee skirts and dresses in the winter with opaque tights and flat boots.

I go to the gym three times a week and walk regularly, fortunately I still have definition in my leg muscles and at 5’2” this style suits me.

(In the summer it’s maxi dresses or cut-offs)

I think folks can wear what they like at whatever age and it’s nobody’s business.

I’d say wear whatever you feel comfortable in. Personally, I won’t wear skirts or dresses above the knee anymore - my knees are better hidden ?.

Surely though “above the knee” is not a mini ?

Also I agree it’s nobody’s business, just my opinion.

Yep, with leggings and ankle boots, they look just fine.

Some of the things I now describe as "tunics" and wear with trousers are probably longer than some of the skirts I once wore. I never go higher than the knee now. I do like dresses that just cover the tops of my knee length boots.

It is far too cold for short skirts here in Scotland.
Anyway aren't we all supposed to be turning the heating down and wearing more layers?
Or perhaps walking more to keep warm and leaving our cars at home.

My shopping trolley is coming into its own now.
See you out and about!
that's not me BTW

My mum and dad used to be in despair at the length of my skirts. ‘ You can’t go out in that’ was a familiar phrase.
Now think it would be the children who would be saying it!

It is no ones business what people wear, I just think it looks horrible. I a shorter dress can look ok with leggins and boots/ trainers.

My shorter skirts aren't strictly "mini" probably mid-thigh. Put it this way, you wouldn't see my knicks if I bent over. ?

I wore exceedingly short skirts when I was a teenager. Never again, knee length is as short as they get now and usually over leggings or jeggings.

I was a very naive teenager and wasn't aware that there were good legs or bad legs. You did get fat and thin, muscular or bony, suntanned or not.

If mine worked and got me from A-B I was glad.

My elder sister borrowed a skirt of mine and cut off about 6 inches to make it a mini for her. I was taller so couldn't wear it again. I was not pleased!

I agree that a tunic over leggings is flattering for most figures.

Yes that's me short skirt black tights and boots.

Get back in that mini skirt. Look what the Guardian thinks is In now. Help!!

I had the legs back in the 60s but that ship has long since sailed. If I still had the legs yes I would, not as short as I did back then and probably with opaque tights. I envy those who still look good in a short skirt but wish ladies of a certain size (which I won’t be drawn on) would refrain like I do!

Grammaretto I like the look of that dress. Plenty of room for the tummy to expand. I might get one to wear for Christmas dinner.