I’ve been known to scotch tape a hem or two. I’m pretty sure I’ve stapled things in the past….but that might have been the early 80′s and I was longing for a bedazzler.

bobby pins. double stick tape. the scrunchie is a great idea. spare leggings maybe??

I’ve used my hairtie more times than i care to mention! I’ve also resorted to actually tying the skirt itself in a knot a couple of times; only works with stretch jersey type skirts which won’t leave you looking seriously bedraggled, but it’s very secure if you can do it. But yes, i’m often beyond caring too!

Nice one!

Great solution!
I’ve used binder clips, and recently a “bannana” clip hair thing on a super windy day when I wore a very poofy skirt.
I do try to carry a pair of cotton/ spandex knee length “workout shorts” with me when I try our a new skirt for the first time, and sometimes with very full midlength skirts that are prone to blowing upwards.

It’s funny that I almost never think about riding in a skirt. A co-worker just asked me about it on Thursday, and I realized how much I just don’t think about it anymore. As you said, A knee length skirt feels as modest as shorts, in the winter I’m always wearing opaque tights, and in the summer, well, if someone gets a peek of my upper thighs, and it really makes his day, he needs to get a life, and I can’t be too fussed about it.

I’d much rather give a random guy on the street a tiny bit of a view than walk in and out of my office every day in a skintight spandex kit that leaves little to the imagination of my coworkers who I have to interact with every day.

The stapling the uniform kilt comment gave me waves of nostalgia. We used to staple ALL over ours. Oh what subversive little preppies.

Classic stylist trick is to use wig tape to secure lighter weight clothing to your body. It’s particularly good for securing silk camisoles and light sundresses, which don’t respond that well to being clipped or stapled, but can also be a problem sometimes. Somebody now makes a product called Hollywood fashion tape that is essentially just wig tape but more expensive and marketed to consumers and comes in a tin and with pre-cut easy to use strips. Plain old wig tape works fine, too, though. I use it to prevent one particularly billowy-on-top silk shirt dress from getting caught in the breeze and revealing my entire body.

I’m a bit late on commenting on this post, but it is sooo timely for me. I’m a newby biker and last week for reasons unknown to me I decided to wear a long peasant skirt with an elastic waistband. I’d worn many a skirts before and I guess I didn’t think anything of it. Well, as you can probably guess, it didn’t take long for the hem to get caught in the chain. Fortunately some quick thinking with some backpeddling kept me from showing my skivies to the world. I ended up riding holding the sides of my skirt hems up to the handle bars, which, I’m sure looked hilarious…but not as much as the during the ride home when the wind had picked up. I laughed the whole way home and placed that skirt in the “non-bike days” side of the closet.

I use dutch/cruiser/etc style bikes, and I fold my skirt under me so it’s a lot more taught. Sometimes I fold it up between the thighs and tuck it in that way, so the area on my hips is taught and then the potentially-offending area looks as if it’s in shorts. For dresses too short for that to work I do the spandex shorts thing, but my spandex shorts are quite short, and I’m pretty sure people think I’m flashing them anyway, which kind of negates the whole thing.

I’ve never cycled in a dress or skirt. I take my clothes in my rack bag and change at work. It’s a 20km commute one way and I always wear knicks. Over the Christmas break I might give a skirt a try on some local rides. In my normal day-to-day I find skirts/dresses far more comfortable to wear so I’ll give it a try.