Our mother always said...

Lengthen those skirts!

In our family our petite mama gave birth to tall girls.We are all between 5’6 and 5’8 without heels. With our high heels on we tower and hit the Amazon Woman Height. As much as we appreciate being tall, and love wearing heels, we always encounter this problem: our skirts are too short!!

We find it a bit tricky to purchase cute skirts and dresses that don't ride up and show too much leg. So many designers create a hem line for the more petite girl, and so make the taller girl look hoochey. This past summer our brother was married and all of us girls were involved in the wedding. The challenge was on! We had to find cute dresses for May that hit the right spot, and didn't make us look like old school marms. After much shopping, hemming and hawing, we decided on another tactic: Make the dress work somehow. Anyhow.There must be a way to prevent our mother's evil eye! Praise the Lord we found it. 



without the modern girl's petticoat



With a bit of lace, and an extra layer underneath, a simple lace skirt or lace slip adds the extra inches and passes the hem line approval for mamas and grandmamas. We call it: The modern girl's petticoat 

With a bit of lace

What to look for: Depending on your dress try to find a slip or skirt that will match, doesn't have to be the same colour. Leah wore a buttery yellow dress and found a cream coloured lace skirt from Forever 21. Renee wore a brown dress and found an inexpensive, black wide lace skirt from Jacob.

Before

After!

Your dress can't be too tight, as then you will look a bit bulgy around the waist, and who wants that? We found that the higher empress waist or A line dresses worked the best.

lacy skirt from Forever 21

If you do have a tighter dress, you can look for a plain slip and sew wide lace around the edge. 

How's that mom?

          Ta-da!