mind you, as an actual girl who nobody looks at twice if I wear a skirt (aside from my mother, ironically, who thinks because of my weight I look better in pants), I would never wear a skirt while stripping wallpaper or painting. ;-) You're far more dedicated to skirt wear than *any* woman I know...even the girls who wear skirts to the exclusion of anything else usually have a pair of jeans around for when they need to climb under the shed or up a ladder. ;-)
Perhaps you can just assume that she was concerned you were doing heavy house work in girls' clothes even girls don't usually wear for the purpose. I know my mother would have responded to me doing house repair in a skirt by nagging me to put on some jeans (and she's not fond of my appearance in jeans, either, but nothing seems to convince the woman there isn't some magic slimming clothing out there that will make me *look* 8 sizes smaller).
Well, I didn't need to get up on a ladder. (The ceilings on the third floor are only a couple of inches more than eight feet, and we attached the scraper to the pole from my push broom.) And the way this skirt hangs, I'd have to be a ways up for it to matter.
This is, in fact, my "doing stuff I want denim for" skirt. It's not the "nice denim"; it's "go ahead and get messy" denim. And it's not like it gets in the way of carrying stuff. So I guess I just saw it as being functionally equivalent to jeans for this sort of thing. It really didn't occur to me as an odd/extreme choice. Hmm.
But you're right that I'm more attached to skirts than most women (though I've met a couple of exceptions). I'll grant that. Still, I know some women who avoid wearing skirts to a greater extent than I avoid wearing pants, which is a kind of related phenomenon...
(no subject)
Perhaps you can just assume that she was concerned you were doing heavy house work in girls' clothes even girls don't usually wear for the purpose. I know my mother would have responded to me doing house repair in a skirt by nagging me to put on some jeans (and she's not fond of my appearance in jeans, either, but nothing seems to convince the woman there isn't some magic slimming clothing out there that will make me *look* 8 sizes smaller).
(no subject)
This is, in fact, my "doing stuff I want denim for" skirt. It's not the "nice denim"; it's "go ahead and get messy" denim. And it's not like it gets in the way of carrying stuff. So I guess I just saw it as being functionally equivalent to jeans for this sort of thing. It really didn't occur to me as an odd/extreme choice. Hmm.
But you're right that I'm more attached to skirts than most women (though I've met a couple of exceptions). I'll grant that. Still, I know some women who avoid wearing skirts to a greater extent than I avoid wearing pants, which is a kind of related phenomenon...