We do sound like we have a common mind set on skirts katz12. =-)

teresa

Yep, backspins do that to folks. I certainly switched to closer fitting pants after some nasty falls. I've still managed to shred a pair of those though

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I wear both. It depends on my mood and what I have clean. Feeling chubby at the moment, so I'm in more a pants mood

Does anyone have something to recommend that doesn't tear, doesn't have holes, gets dry fast, and is warm? My frosty tights are getting holes from the boot area and from when I jab myself/slice the pants

Once I wore a skirt (when i was at 2ft spin), and I fell and slid as I was going backwards. The skirt got pulled down.

No. More. Skirts.

Sigh. I tore my favorite pants this morning. I already took in the lower half of them a while back due to a spectacular fall while dancing. Now I guess I have to patch them, and stop wearing them while I'm working on my backspin in earnest. But I dislike wearing leggings because, like Agnes, I have thighs like Christmas hams; skirts tend to make me feel like I ought to be a lot better than I am, and I actually like looking slouchy (apparel-wise, not skating wise).

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Picked up some Under Armour at the outlet in Myrtle Beach a couple of months ago and am totally in love with it.

I've been running in addition to the high amount of skating I've been doing lately (headed back to the active duty Air Force in October, so I've sort of been forced into it) and I have to brag on my "skater butt" that is toning up very nicely - in the last year I've dropped about twenty pounds and feel the need to wave my own flag a bit...

I wear the low rise lulu lemon pants with the straight leg, and tights and footless wool tights underneath. Generally I have 3 layers on top with a tank, then short sleeve and on top a fleece. I prefer the pants for practice, but start wearing dresses the week before a comp.

Dressess are nice I just have to be in that "pretty girl" mood to wear them. For years I wandered around the CU Boulder campus in dresses, I got a lot of looks.

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I'm enjoying wearing skirts this summer. My favorite is a black Patagonia knee length skirt, great to wear with pretty sweaters. But when fall/winter comes, I'll be back in pants with silk longjohns underneath. These New Hampshire rinks are cold!

Pat

I usually wear my Se_ku pants or the UA Frosty tights and Mondor footed tights or knee highs underneath them...if the rink feels chillier than usual I add leg warmers (by Harmonie, got them at DiscountDance site).

I have a pair of Lululemon pants but they are the flared ones, I think they are called the Groove pants...I have stopped wearing them when I started learning backspins since I have taken a nasty fall although the pants didn't rip thank goodness lol. I do like the Se_kus, they fit really well and have held up nicely in the wash and doesn't leave me with a wet butt after falls. When I pass my pre-bronze tests in a couple months I'll definitely reward myself with another pair! There was a sale on the Se_ku site on the dresses, I got one to wear for my test since it is cuter than the other designs I found elsewhere.

I like wearing skirts too but I have to be in a certain mood to wear them...usually on my Tuesday late afternoon freestyles...I can't gather the enthusiam to put them on at 5:40 AM in Saturdays, lol....I have the ones by Jerry's with the flat skirt that have the slits on the sides. I wear two pairs of tights with them (one footed, one footless).

Pants. I am a guy.

I left blade did get tangled a few times during the exit of a backspin or a jump. But I think this is a good reminder that I did something wrong.

when has being a guy stopped anyone wearing a skirt? John Kerr wore a kilt for their Original Dance last season, but he is Scottish.

He wore shorts inside when he did that. Not that Scottish.

Coward.

I would imagine that a hard fall on ice in a kilt without any underwear might be something of a "procreation limiting event"

Sarah

PS - I wore a skirt on the ice for the first time on Friday. It won't be the last time (actually, my coach insists on skirts for some tests but I'm not that good yet)

Ooh, I really want a pair of the Frosty tights after you've all raved on them so much. But I also don't want to spend $50 on a pair of pants....esp. not any time soon. There are so many different things I need to spend money on soon (better locks, etc. for my bike, a new chain for my cross pendant I wear all the time and have hated being without for the few weeks it's been since I broke the last one, etc.). Not to mention all the medical and dental bills I'm about to rack up! I keep looking on eBay but no dice. A while back there was a seller who was selling some that were new but had defects...and I figured, I can spend ten bucks at the alterations place to get a pair of pants for fifteen bucks or less!

I really need to go to the local sports store and try some on first, though. The size chart says a small should fit me but I've seen them in the store and they look tiny! I know they stretch but I don't think I want to spend an entire skating session picking wedgies, lol. So I'm thinking the medium would work better for me (besides, I have a big butt so anything I can do to accommodate that works for me. My hip size is still smaller than the hip size in the size charts for the smalls, but I find that hard to believe).

^^

If you are in the US, try looking at Nordstrom Rack because they usually have a lot of Under Armour on sale. I paid full price for my Frosty tights but realized that they have them at the Rack, albeit in random colors (blue, gray, etc) but you might luck out. I also got an UA Coldgear turtle neck on sale at the regular Nordstrom for about $30 and they are usually about $50 too.

Also I think UA has an "outlet" section on their site so that could be another place to look.

^I'll have to try Nordstrom Rack.

One thing I did figure out, if looking at myself in the mirror in footless tights is any indication...I NEED to find a skirt to wear over top because stuff that tight makes my butt look GINORMOUS! LOL.

My dream is a plain black box skirt with red lining, but unless I make my own, no luck. Sewing with lycra is really hard, right?

I'm a diehard skirt girl, but do not wear dresses unless I have to. They take too long to get off when I have to pee

There's a couple of public skates where I get weird looks if I wear a skirt, so I've got a pair of pants in my bag and wear a wrap skirt overtop. I bought a stretch mesh skirt from a local skater/dressmaker. It's actually too thin to wear on it's own with tights because I don't like the panty showing so it's perfect with pants.

There's something about seeing the skirt flying while I spin, if I don't wear a skirt and then start again, I get distracted by my skirt. I've got too much other stuff to worry about than that. The whole diehard skirt thing started during a dance test, when for the first time I wore a full out dance dress, and spent the entire warm up admiring my skirt. Ooooh it was pretty and fluffy! My coach was going to kill me - after the test.

I've never thought so. Indeed these days I prefer it, finding it more forgiving of slight inaccuracies than non-stretch fabric. If you have a sewing machine with an over-edge stitch, or even a zig-zag, it is usually not too difficult to work with.
Hemming isn't so easy on a sewing maching, I have used a very small, short zig-zag to replicate the rolled hem effect I can get on my overlocker (serger).

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^How would I do a hem on double layers, though? I mean, if I were to do the black-lined-with-red? My mom's machine does not have a serger, if I remember correctly... Would I do it the same way I'd do with non-stretchy fabric?

So can wearing inappropriate underwear

Ant

Lycra doesn't ravel, so you don't have to hem - you can just cut the layers to length. I've also done a lined box skirt where I stitched the two layers right sides together, then turned them right sides out and treated them as one piece when finishing the skirt. It looked very nice, but you need to know the exact finished length before you start.

Hrm....maybe I could even make it reversible!

I'm liking the idea of making my own more and more...then I can make it however I want. I like the box skirt design, but I don't want to shell out $40 to buy one, and haven't found any dance skirts I like quite as well--I like the high slits (I decided I don't need a skort as I can just wear dance briefs underneath when I want to wear just the skirt, and then I won't have 20 dorky layers if I wear it over pants). We'll see if I can convince my mom to help me...I'm not sure she's that ambitious!!

I know that out there, somewhere, there are skating patterns, and surely there is one for a box skirt...anyone know any good links? I found a couple by Kwik-Sew that may work.