Broomstick Skirts

[cimorene]

I loved broomstick skirts when I was a child, or perhaps I should say a teenie-bopper, and only stopped wearing them at around age fifteen when the pressures of wearing relatively normal clothing for the time got to me and prevented the wearing of skirts with tigers or elephants printed on them to school. I had three or four, I think, and my mother had a somewhat vintage white one with lace trim that was pretty fabulous.

guinevere33 and I used to call each other and plan our outfits for school in advance in 8th and 9th grade, so it should be no surprise that we wanted to be matching at the 10th grade IB class Halloween party. She wore a lacy white top with my mom's white broomstick skirt and a pair of Claire-Danes-in-Romeo+Juliet-inspired wings I'd made out of approximately 500 individual white paper feathers and some cardboard and ribbons (part of my own Halloween costume the year before). I wore a big, voluminous floor-length black robe and a witch's hat, although before long we exchanged accessories ("It's like a yin-yang!") and I was a witch in angel wings and she was an angel with a witch's hat.

I've been jonesing for a broomstick skirt again, though, and I really want a white one more than anything, but they seem to have fallen out of fashion again so I haven't been able to locate one. I e-mailed my mother to ask for hers - she never actually wore it herself anyway, so I figured she could spare it - but she said it was sacrificed to the gods of costume-making years ago, as far as she was aware, and she couldn't find it anymore. I know there's an Indian Stuff shop on Eriksgatan, however, which displays decoratively-painted furniture and bejewelled slippers in the window, so it's possible I could have some luck there, or at Ra-Ke, otherwise known as the Hideously Ugly Yet Bizarrely Expensive Formal Dress Shop. Indiska's been a no-go for months. Other ideas?

Comments

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

I had to google it to figure out what kind of skirt you are talking about (and now I kinda want the riding skirt in here.. (http://www.rockmount.com/skirts.htm))
You could try the "real" ethnic shops instead of indiska. There is one facing Puutori, if I remember right and if it's still there. Or, that kind of skirt would be really easy to just sew yourself.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know I could make one... I've never sewed a tiered skirt, though, and am slightly afflicted with laziness. I actually started cutting out a full white knee-length skirt recently, and shiroi_chi offered me some handmade crocheted lace to stick all over it, I just haven't sewed the bits together.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I've seen the fabric at Jo-Ann's.

[bluesbell.livejournal.com]

:D

What are the odds! I have a long white broomstick skirt that I bought from Indiska a few years ago and it's been sitting in my closet ever since, practically never worn. Clearly I've been saving it for this reason. It's yours if you want it!

eta: It's viscose and not cotton, in case that matters.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Hahahha, no, that's not a big deal (I had a black rayon one, actually, now I think of it)! I'd love to have it. What are the odds indeed! o_O

[sophiawestern.livejournal.com]

I can't help you.

But I spent so much money in Indiska when I visited my friend in Stockholm. :)

[vellum.livejournal.com]

there wouldn't happen to be any street fairs or outdoor markets around where you are? a friend got me a knee length tiered skirt from there. i'm not entirely sure if broomstick skirts are supposed to go down all the way to the floor or if knee length makes it not a broomstick skirt.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Well, there are occasionally ethnic clothing and accessories sold in the market square, but they tend to be mainly accessories as far as I'm aware.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

The 'broomstick' part refers to the crinkled fabric. A few years ago I saw a lot of knee-length ones. The ones I was familiar with as a child were more like low calf-length to ankle-length though.

[pierydys.livejournal.com]

What's your waist and hip measurement, sweetie? :-) I might just have something that fits the bill... (And it actually did come back in a few years ago, so there might still be stuff floating around, at least in the bargain shops out here.)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Thank you! A local friend of mine said that she has one she will give to me, though.

[pierydys.livejournal.com]

Oh yay! Glad you've been reunited with it :-)

Broomstick skirt found!

[indolentncrazy.livejournal.com]

I found it-- we had put it up to make curtains for Ls reading loft. She says you can have it. I trhink it is a bit... grubby, but I am sending it to you so you can figure out how ti keep those gorgeous wrinkles.

Re: Broomstick skirt found!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks! Cool!