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I lost some weight on another diet before starting this one, so I've recently started wearing skirts and dresses again after living in trousers for years. I still haven't the confidence for anything over the knee though, not without thick tights anyway!

I stopped wearing skirts without even realising it! Probably as I put on weight. I have had 2 operations on my foot (Moreton's neuroma & toe straightened) so I can't wear heels any more and I think my feet unsightly, so usually encase them in comfy shoes.
But I also wore sandals with my dress yesterday! Another breakthrough! I have also grown my hair from a short spikey cut.
One of the comments I did get yesterday was, 'only your eyes are the same'!!

I'm wearing a dress now too!

I love dresses and skirts much more than trousers, I'm a pear shape and they work so much better on me. I have found though that all of the dresses I have now are a bit loose, I'll have to get some new ones next year!

Well I don't own a dress at all haven't for 15 years or so!!! I've a few skirts but because of swollen ankles haven't worn one for 2yrs try as I may (and 2 stone lost ) can't get this very big problem sorted + I don't mean puffy I do mean massive, so cover up with trousers, pity but I'm going to see if any intelligent people on here can help and also going to see the nurse in 3weeks Sue

Doodle you wrote my reply, today brought size 12 skirt and only in Feb I was busting out of size 16 pants and would not go near a skirt. My skirt today is the second I have purchased within a week both are Knee level and I am wearing them with tights and ankle boots. Sooooo chuffed

In the summer, I wear them all the time. I do have winter skirts (and one dress, LOL) but I'm usually too cold to wear them. I'm a coward when it comes to cold.
I wear only long-ish and long ones and my favourites are the Nicola Quilter ones (skirts).

My weird habit is to wear them with shirts underneath (usually slimwear or "invisible" underwear) because when I was in my teens I saw a girl taking a nasty fall while wearing a dress and the dress went up and the whole world saw her undies. Since then, I only wear skirts/dresses with something underneath.

I haven't worn a skirt or dress for at least ten years, I live in trousers, jeans or shorts.
Skirts never look good, they emphasise my pear shaped hips but I would like to wear a dress now that I've lost weight. I will feel self conscious though and probably won't wear it more than once, I don't have much of a social life, my world is mainly dog walking and supermarket shopping.

Coffeetime, a skirt that sits low on your waist will not emphasise your pear shaped hips at all! I always buy my skirts one size bigger so that they hang low and I'm very happy with how I look.
Also, A line skirts and Audrey Hepborn dresses are the best for us pears.

My world is dog walking, food shopping and the gym too.

Wear the dress more than once, even if you do feel self-conscious, eventually you'll forget about it and it's good to expand your comfort envelope with small victories.

My world is dog walking, food shopping and the gym too.

Wear the dress more than once, even if you do feel self-conscious, eventually you'll forget about it and it's good to expand your comfort envelope with small victories.

[Moogie]

I wear them around the house & garden in the summer, but not out and about!
I used to wear them around 6 years ago when I was a size 8-10. The bigger I got, the less I wore them. Over the last 7 months or so I've worn them out a few times for special occasions - funerals, birthdays etc. I don't tend to get my legs out though, they're still tree trunks to me!

Thought it was just me. I'm a jeans & t-shirt girl. I do have a few dresses that I wear especially in winter with tights & long boots ( to hide the legs) but I feel very dressed up & uncomfortable in dresses & skirts & change the minute I get home.
I find skirts really difficult to wear. They seem to emphasise my hips & lack of height & don't look right no matter what shape they are & now I can't wear high heels my legs look worse
But with this gorgeous summer weather I am trying to wear some of my summer dresses( maxi etc) that I usually only wear abroad - in fact wearing one right now

I wore a short(ish) skirt the other day,for the first time in years.

I live in jeans usually as I have horses to do and dogs to walk, so jeans are much easier. I do feel so much better for losing a bit of weight, I can't wait until I can buy new smaller clothes and feel feminine again. I have more of a waist now, so feel like less of a straight up and down blob.

My biggest regret is not trying this WOE earlier, I've wasted years thinking it was impossible to get the figure I wanted back, and just gave a lovely dress I've had for years away to charity a few months ago as it was only size ten. I'm wishing I'd hung on to it now as I think I just might get there after reading so many inspirational posts.

I prefer to wear a dress most of the time. As I am short, a skirt and top tends to cut me in half and the last thing I want to draw attention to is my waist! Living in a hot climate it is much cooler to wear a dress. In the winter months I wear trousers but find walking and sitting in them very restricting so they tend to have an elastic waist and are made of a soft material.

I wear dresses pretty much every day - especially in this heat. I am more of an apple shape, for my sins, and find that trousers make my waist look bulky, whereas, dresses cut on the bias or just under the bust cover my problem area nicely.