Maxi skirts: how low can you go?

Don’t be afraid of the new longer length maxi and midi skirts. Here’s how to drop your hem and raise your style quotient Admit it. The fashioning-up of the longer skirt has piqued your interest, hasn’t it? The maxi skirt and its more awkward younger sister, the midi length, have – after a couple of seasons’s hard graft – finally stolen the limelight. It is the trend most likely to convert its catwalk kudos into commercial success and as a grown-up with a real body you’re keen to get involved, but more than a little bit wary because – and let’s not sugarcoat this – they might be less revealing but they are far from easy to wear. In fact they are downright difficult. The catwalks have been trying to convince us about “longer” for a while. Back in September there was a lot of hoo-ha after a beautiful Jil Sander show focused on floor-length couture-style skirts in pinks and oranges. It was, according to Caroline Issa, fashion director at Tank magazine and darling of the blogosphere, “the moment when I

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