Interesting post over at Beautiful Grace – I stumbled upon it while researching another post – where the author, Maria Pauline, expounds the virtues of skirts for girls. As a male, I certainly don’t have any desire to argue the point – my Scottish ancestry has seen me in a kilt more than once and it’s not a pretty sight.

My own personal view on the “Should girls wear skirts or pants?” is purely aesthetic. They look prettier in skirts. But, I’m certainly no ‘old-fart’ that believes females must wear skirts. Even my own girls, while they look so cute and damn charming in a skirt, often wear pants.

So how does wearing skirts work as garden clothes?

In one of the illustrations that Maria Pauline used in her post, it depicts a doll wearing a flowery skirt with the caption “Gardening Outfit” beneath it. For me, as a man who knows nothing about such things, I would have assumed that the caption should have read “Garden Outfit” as in clothes that one may wear while in a garden. However, the caption clearly uses the verb rather than the noun which begs the question, “Are skirts appropriate garden clothes?”

My understanding of what one should wear in the garden are clothes that protect the body and can be soiled without any concern. My immediate thought about wearing a skirt while performing gardening activities is “your knees are going to get dirty” and therefore discounts my previous considerations.

Now, obviously I am completely out of my depth on this topic. As a mere male I have never had to consider wearing a skirt in the garden as an option – for me it’s always a pair of jeans. And I have absolutely no desire to wear a skirt – for those who may be wondering – I’m just interested as to whether women think skirts are good active wear and if they actually wear them whilst gardening.

Or, is Maria Pauline still living in the 1950′s mindset where women dressed to please men.