Fashion

I thought the woman was wearing an ankle-length skirt. the fabric was georgette but opaque. Gathered at the waist. Bloused in, I thought, at the hem. Then I saw that the skirt was banded around each ankle. Modest, but hobbling if climbing on or off a bus.

A day later I saw a woman in another example of what seems to be a new fashion. Hers was like a knee-length A-line to whose hem was sewn the bottom third of a pair of trousers. Downright ugly.

the following day it was a woman wearing the very-long-in-the-crotch trousers old Arab men wear, except that the crotch of the men;s trousers is at the knees and on this outfit the crotch (if it could still be called that) was at mid calf or lower. Strange-looking but not repulsive.

Copyright 2012 Jane S. Fox