How To Wear The Skirt Of The Summer

With tips from the one and only Jalil Johnson.

If you’ve been reading Earl Earl for a while, you know I’m more of a pants gal than a skirts and dresses girl. I have to kind of remind myself to try a skirt, and when I do wear a dress, it’s usually tent-like and the kind of thing you throw on after swimming with wet hair and nothing underneath. Dresses for me are generally more of a utilitarian item - I wear them for these newsletters and I make myself play with them, and I have a lot of fun with that, but in my real every day life, or if you know me IRL, you’re unlikely to ever see my in a dress, dress, much less a skirt.

And if I’m going to play shrink with myself, I think it’s because I struggle with the idea of traditional femininity. As a mother, I bristle at what’s expected of moms because we’re women. I don’t like to think that any of those societal norms apply to me, though I live a pretty hetero-traditional life. At home, there isn’t a strict adherence to oldschool gender roles (my husband cooks, for example), but when I th…