Have you thought about making more "practical" skirt designs? I love your skirts and i wish i had one i could wear when some choral event says i need a floor length black skirt. Which is most of them.
i don’t think we’ll ever do something like that for a number of reasons:
i feel like a floor length solid color skirt is something you could find at a larger retailer for considerably cheaper than we would be able to sell it for and i’m not interested in competing with larger retailers; it’s just not something that will go well for me.
with things as they are currently, with our current manufacturer, all our fabric is white fabric that is then sublimation printed, so whether we make a solid color fabric or a patterned fabric, it will cost the same for us to produce. to achieve a solid colored skirt, working with pre-dyed fabric would be much cheaper and is not a thing we can do in our current set up.
while i have been focusing on offering skirts that have a more work friendly vibe to them (i.e. the midi length and less busy designs like the bee and the rainbow, etc.), i am still creating skirt designs that are unique to me and it’s still important to me to offer something you couldn’t buy at, say, a target or wherever.
also, with our current manufacturer, floor length skirts just aren’t possible. due to the size range we offer (starting with preorders in february we’re adding a third size that will go up to 6x), with the midi length skirts we are already maxing out the workable space on our manufacturer’s garment printer. to make a longer skirt, we would have to find a new manufacturer with a larger format garment printer -- which is pretty rare; part of why larger plus size clothing is so hard to find is because it frequently requires larger machinery, which most factories don’t have. (btw not saying i like or agree with charging plus size customers more -- we purposefully charge the same price regardless of size, even tho our larger sizes cost more to make, for moral reasons we have decided to take that hit ourselves -- but i understand why it happens.)
