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  • To give a feminine long-skirted ensemble some masculine edge, she sometimes will wear a tucked-in, tailored shirt or oxford shoes to complete the look.

    Rachel Roy on How to Go With the Flow of Longer Skirts Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan 2011

  • She's enthusiastic about the long-skirted look that's currently gaining traction, she says, because the style has "a classic-ness to it and also a certain amount of tradition."

    Rachel Roy on How to Go With the Flow of Longer Skirts Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan 2011

  • He liked her neat-shod feet and the gray-gaitered calves, -- alas, now hidden in long-skirted Dawson.

    CHAPTER 8 2010

  • And Sara had some long-skirted, medieval-looking dresses she wore, and of course Luke would have saved one of his wildflower circlets for her hair.

    Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010

  • "Yes, that's fine, but what about the winter?" various friends countered, so I tried traveling to PEI then, too, and found other things to love, like the ice fishing shacks stacked like bright Legos along Malpeque Bay and the snow tornadoes rising like long-skirted fairies in the fields.

    Holly Robinson: Do College Costs + Retirement = Canada? 2010

  • And Sara had some long-skirted, medieval-looking dresses she wore, and of course Luke would have saved one of his wildflower circlets for her hair.

    Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010

  • "Yes, that's fine, but what about the winter?" various friends countered, so I tried traveling to PEI then, too, and found other things to love, like the ice fishing shacks stacked like bright Legos along Malpeque Bay and the snow tornadoes rising like long-skirted fairies in the fields.

    Holly Robinson: Do College Costs + Retirement = Canada? 2010

  • "Yes, that's fine, but what about the winter?" various friends countered, so I tried traveling to PEI then, too, and found other things to love, like the ice fishing shacks stacked like bright Legos along Malpeque Bay and the snow tornadoes rising like long-skirted fairies in the fields.

    Holly Robinson: Do College Costs + Retirement = Canada? 2010

  • And Sara had some long-skirted, medieval-looking dresses she wore, and of course Luke would have saved one of his wildflower circlets for her hair.

    Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010

  • Women with demure hair coverings and babies jostled alongside their husbands, alongside pious long-skirted young girls clutching prayer books (like me) and yeshiva guys trying to study Talmud while dangling from a pole.

    Ilana Teitelbaum: Passover Memories in Jerusalem 2009

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