Someone should benefit from this experience.

[jadesfire]

Can I offer some advice?

If you own a flared skirt, whose hem has a tendency to live around your shoulders rather than your knees, even on a non-windy day, do not wear said skirt to cycle in.

Especially do not wear said skirt to cycle in on a windy day.

Especially do not wear said skirt to cycle in on a windy day along one of the main roads out of town.

And please remember that, because the skirt is flared, there is much material available to become caught between the back wheel and the brake pad.

This, my friends, is why I wear opaque tights...

Comments

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. This sounds like you completely lost the skirt. I hope that wasn't what happened!

Have you ever tried keeping a safety pin attached to the hem so that you can pin the skirt together (sort of like shorts) for bicycling and then unpin it for work? That will keep it from flying up, at least.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

It was fine - it had been catching a bit before that, so I was half-expecting it and only the front brakes work anyway :) It didn't happen on the main road, and that I am immensely grateful for!

I hadn't thought of the safety pin. That might work, although there's quite a lot of skirt that will still be flapping - it might save my modesty, but I think the dignity's a lost cause...

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

The safety pin was an old trick from my newspaper days. I often had to take photos to go with my stories, and it's impossible to bat down a flying skirt and shoot pictures. I usually wore a flared skirt because it was hard to crouch down to take photos in a tight one.