How to Style Midi Skirts ~ Part 1 of 2

Skirt lengths come and go…short and long and in-between! While the midi skirt may have started out as one such trend, it’s stuck around long enough to see it become a bona fide wardrobe staple.

As its title suggests, a  midi skirt is a skirt with a length that’s in between that of a mini skirt and a maxi skirt. The hem of most midi skirts falls midway down your calf, somewhere between your knee and your ankle. Midi skirts automatically flatter every body size, shape, and type.

Skirts are not my usual go to for any event at any time. However, I’ve been seeing so many cute ways to style them both casual and fancy. As I began to put together this post, I came to realization that I enjoy wearing them far more than I anticipated as they’re super comfy and so easily pair with almost anything. I took some inspiration from women I follow on Instagram and put my style/spin on the looks. Having the gift of time has allowed me to really get creative and step out of my comfort zone!

Tulle Midi Skirt

True confession…I’ve been wanting a tulle skirt for some time but was really second guessing where I’d wear it, was it appropriate and on and on…until I saw my inspiration! Tammy of Fashion Knows No Age popped up in my Instagram feed wearing her beautiful tulle skirt! It was a reminder that life is short buy and wear the tulle skirt! Being as we’re still sheltering in place and can’t really go anywhere yet, I decided to recreate some fun memes that have been all over social media. When I can go out, I will wear my tulle skirt for a date night or party. A tulle skirt can be paired with a graphic tee, sequined top, solid colored top..the options are endless. This tulle skirt is pull on and super comfortable. It has a lining underneath that is shorter. I’ve added a pearl embellished belt to go along with all my pearl accessories! Voila…I’ll call this my Carrie Bradshaw look!

Memes for Fun

It never fails…I go out to stage these pictures on a non-garbage day all dressed up and all my neighbors are out! Most of my neighbors are used to me; but I have new neighbors! Had to do some explaining! Oh well, keeping them all entertained! LOL

You can see that we socially distanced ourselves from the other shoppers at the back of the grocery store parking lot! Doesn’t everyone grocery shop in a tulle skirt?!

Several dog walkers caught us taking this picture. When we explained what we were up to (at an appropriate social distance), we had some laughs!

I’ve also been participating in #createwhilewewait posts on Instagram and posting them in Stories! Each day an inspiration picture is shared and then whoever wants to put their spin on it and recreate it does just that. My graphic tee prompted me to create this post…Being creative brings me great joy and it has been a gift having the extra time to spend!

Shop the Tulle Midi Skirt and T-Shirt

Graphic Midi Skirt

On a recent trip to Portland, Oregon for a work conference, I had the pleasure of visiting with my long time friend Laura. We’ve been friends since we were about three years old. I was ecstatic that we’d be able to spend an evening together, which involved dinner, a little shopping and Portland’s Festival of Lights. Laura and I entered a very quirky and eclectic store that sold both second hand vintage retro clothes and new items. We had a field day! I spotted this skirt and immediately thought of Terri of I am Terri B wearing her graphic skirt. I probably would have passed up this skirt if I hadn’t seen Terri wearing a similar one. This cropped, pattern mixed, denim jacket was also a find on that shopping trip! This is a crazy amount of pattern mixing for me but I really love how it all came together! Mr. FTF’s response when he saw this look, “I need some anxiety meds! That’s a lot going on!” LOL

Here are several ways to style this graphic midi skirt from casual to dressed up, which do you prefer? In my opinion, it is casual when paired with my P448s and this cropped denim jacket.

When you change the shoes from tennies to pumps, it elevates the look causing it feel more dressy. I added my fishnet socks with bow accents. Having extra time to style things many ways is such a delight for me as I’m usually pressed for time!

To dress up the look, I went from the black tank top and cropped denim jacket, to this long sheered sleeved top with the large bow on the shoulder and kept on the pumps minus the socks for a more serious look. Originally, this top was purchased and worn at Christmas. While I preferred to tuck in the top, you could also leave it out. The skirt is a super comfortable pull on!

You could also pair this skirt with other colors and pull out the pink, red, green or white, I grabbed a puffy sleeved super soft top, added a silk pink ribbon at the waist and my pink suede booties for look #4! Not quit as fancy but not casual…a middle of the road look that I would even wear to work!

Lastly, I added my jean jacket and put my P448s back on to create a more casual look! That is a total of 5 styling options for 1 skirt! Boom! Super simple to switch out a couple of things to completely change the look and feel for where ever you might be going or what ever you might be doing! We will get to go back out and how glorious that will be!!!

SHOP GRAPHIC SKIRTS

Part 2

This post was intended to be one and not two parts but technology and I don’t always get along nor understand each other. After putting countless hours into this post, half of it disappeared. UGH! I had intended to share one more midi with you (pictured above in the Stein Mart add) and how I styled it numerous ways. Therefore, I hope you come back in two weeks (next week is Stylish Monday collaboration) for the final edition of Mad for Midis. When you get glitches, you roll with it and create another post! LOL

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