The Shy Pencil Skirt.

Never is this skirt shy. Anyone who has worn one knows that it can cling in all the right and in all the wrong places - showing every bump and curve of your ar**  like no other skirt cut yet. Somehow it does it in a classy way, just like when your partner subtly slides his hand across your backside on a cosy night out as you leave a classy restaurant. It is slight, yet brazenly cheeky all at the same time.
Now that my figure is starting to shrink, I am on the look out for another classic pencil skirt, as a reward for when I have got down to my goal measurements. Think 1950's secretary - hair up, glasses, red lipstick, wide necked small wing collar white blouse, wide belt, sling back or peep toe stilettos and you're there.

The skirt must be below the knee - side or back zip - small back split or even better a tiny below knee fan flare. Not fish, but full. Dark and plain in colour would be best - I'm thinking black, brown or deep plum, maybe - could have white piping or black ribbon edged bias - maybe a close bobble boucle, small tweed or tight dog tooth - maybe........ You see how particular I get - how hard it is for me to find a certain piece of vintage clothing once I get what I want in my head - and why when I find it, I just HAVE TO HAVE IT!!!!
You see what I am really doing, and it took me years to realise this, I am designing the item in my head. There is probably no skirt out there to buy like that! I can't even google a picture of the skirt I have just described that I want, past or present. It is a mish-mash in my head. One day I will have to make it.

Do I care if I look like I don't belong in this era - no, not particularly - because often I feel I already don't. I don't care about labels, for me it is the cut and fabric that counts. I never buy anything for the label, I buy it for the fit and feel. My dream would be to set up a vintage clothing shop. Although I know that realistically half the store would come home with me - but I think of all those very necessary stock shopping trips and auctions I'd just HAVE to go on! I'm getting excited, just at the very thought that it may one day be a distant possibility.