As a person who is particularly fond of legs (my own, mostly, but other people s too), I ve been pulling for skorts for awhile. In New York, in Milan, in Paris, I would see them on the spring 2015 runways, pitch incrementally forward at the waist and whisper meaningfully (or at least with what I hoped sounded like some measure of authority) to whoever was next to me: "Skort!" And there were enough on offer that this happened quite frequently—so while in all likelihood I may not be a hotly coveted seatmate at these affairs (there’s only so many times a person can politely smile and nod in feigned comprehension), I don t care: because now I have skorts back in my life.
Sure, spell-check autocorrects skort to skirt. But such insults don t deter this secretly chic piece: It s fashion s equivalent of the El Camino: the fun of a car, the practicality of a truck. With a design that harkens to a reverse mullet—business in back, party in front—the skort enables all sorts of movement: excitable flinging of the limbs, hurling of the bodily self into taxis and onto the floor to play with the dog (a cause very dear to my heart). It s what, in a financial setting, I might imagine to be called a "low risk, high reward" endeavor: all of the fun of a skirt with any question of potential Basic Instinct–style indecent exposure rendered moot. Styles run the gamut: charmingly retro—harkening back to the nineties and beyond—to decidedly modern. They ll work with tights when the weather changes, and with knits and boxy tops in the transitional months.
Reader, I m wearing one as I write this: nifty monochromatic gingham wool with angled contrasting pocket on the right hip (the whole thing is very fall 2014 Céline meets spring 2015 Altuzarrawith a dash of Louis Vuitton fall 2014, if you’re wondering). You can t get more of an endorsement than that.
