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The TuTu Skirt?

(55 Posts)
BlueBelle Sat 06-Apr-24 08:03:41

Don’t like it but the black one looks the best

NotSpaghetti Sat 06-Apr-24 07:29:17

Thought I'd just put a couple of photos here - this is the kind of thing I'm talking about.

NotSpaghetti Sat 06-Apr-24 07:09:33

I think it's already out there. Both my younger daughters have longish tulle skirts - which is basically what these are.

The older daughter has two of these that I've seen her in - she's been wearing one for at least three or four years. She wore one to a friend's wedding with a high necked blouse but mostly wears the frothier of the two with a big chunky jumper or boxy jacket and used to wear it to work. It's a surprisingly versatile garment it seems to me.

My other daughter only wears hers to party in but it is very nice on her with a long slim fitting top over it (think long-length M&S scoop neck thermal vests!).

I don't think that many fashions develop to suit an "apple" shape to be honest.

Esmay Sat 06-Apr-24 06:49:29

Not for me either .
To carry off this look you need to be willowy and tall .
I do wear 1950's puff petticoats and dresses in the summer occasionally .
I was doing very well with my weight loss until a long bout of illness set in .

mae13 Sat 06-Apr-24 02:46:09

In the Guardian (5 April) there was a fashion item pointing up the latest trend in skirts: the TuTu Skirt, an adapted ankle length, chiffon, lightweight fabric affair, layered and NOT sticky-out like a traditional ballet skirt.

Hmmm.....can't see it making much impact among the masses unless the masses are 6' tall plus and as thin as a stick of celery. Certainly wouldn't work for me: 5'1" and dumpy Bramley apple-shaped! It looked ultra stylish on the model in the accompanying pic but she looked all of 21, size 4 and veering into the anorexic zone. No, no, no.