Mini or maxi: Which skirt is right for you?
telegraph.co.ukLisa Armstrong, head of fashionWhile millennials have been gobbling up late-90s/early-noughties fashion – aka YK2 – for the past couple of years, anyone old enough to have worn crop tops and bumsters last time round has been wisely sitting it out.But as of this autumn, there is one long, languid 90s take-out we can all enjoy.
The maxi is back – at Burberry and Brunello Cucinelli, and at Chanel, Tod’s and Altuzarra. Other designers, including Roland Mouret, have included the maxi in their resort collections, which drop in November.
This one has legs. Speaking of which, I’ve always felt more comfortable having some kind of covering on mine.In previous times this meant trousers, trousers and more trousers, because as well as not doing minis, I didn’t do floor-sweeping skirts.
I’m not a germ-phobe by any means, but anything that brushes city pavements strikes me as asking for trouble. But the new maxis stop at the ankles, just above, or failing that, the tops of your shoes.
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