Would you care to tell us more about the large-pocketed skirts? 👀
I absolutely can.
They’re the @mayakern skirts. They are lovely and I get so many compliments whenever I wear any of them. I feel like the librarian version of Ms. Frizzle when I wear them. I recently got myself the stargayzing skirt and the monarchs one - I wore the latter for the first day of Summer Reading, and our library’s kickoff party, and got complimented many times.
(Today I wore the one with the big fern-y leaves, gives me jungle vibes. A patron said I should have worn it when Shedskin Reptiles is here for tomorrow’s program, but we did a Dino-craft today and it was the closest I had to that.)
(Oh man, maybe one day there will be a, like, fossils one.)
They’re long enough to wear to work, and completely cover the bike shorts I wear underneath for thick-thigh and bending-over comfort. They fit comfortably around my waist - though they changed manufacturers recently and thus the sizes are done differently, and one size I fit is just a little tight feeling by the end of the day (the elastic digs in more) and the other pulls down with even just my car keys in my pocket, let alone my phone (too loose for my preference.) I’m debating seeing if my mom can’t work some sewing-hemming style magic on that one.
The best part, besides the comfy skirts with pretty and fun designs, is the pockets. And when I say the pockets are large, I mean that they advertise them as able to fit a Nintendo switch and they are NOT JOKING.
I like to wear them when I go out to the orchestra or movies or to eat, and I don’t want to be dealing with a whole purse. I can fit my wallet, my phone, my inhaler, my keys, my sunglasses, and a travel size pill bottle of assorted meds into the two pockets and still have room to spare. Often you can’t even really tell I have things in said pockets unless the weight is pulling down the band of the skirt.
I even have one of their mini-skirts, because I wanted the aurora borealis pattern and it was out of the midi length, and the pockets are still large, and the skirt still covers well, and my bike shorts barely peek out of the hem.
The first one I ever got was the Bee skirt, which is back (my mom asked me to buy her one, so I did lol). The jellyfish are back too, which I also have.
They’re definitely a bit of a splurge for me, but I’d rather spend the money on a cute, comfy, well-made skirt by a small independent business than on things from the store that don’t fit well and I’m lucky to get pockets with and are medicorely made.
Anyway, if you love fun skirts with large pockets I highly suggest checking them out.
