HOW TO STYLE YOU BASIC SKIRT.

I LOVE a good skirt, but for a while I found them tricky to wear. I wasn’t sure how to style skirts, felt limited in the tops and shoes I could pair with them, and constantly wondered either, “How does this work?” or “Am I doing this right?”

The great news is there are a few things you can do or look for to make styling skirts reallyyyyyy easy! Today I’m sharing tips that I use to effortlessly style.

1. Tuck tops into the skirt or knot them over the skirt to define your waist.
I think you can get away with untucked tops with pencil skirts, but a-line skirts are harder to do that with since they’re not fitted. Tucking or knotting tops helps define your waist and creates shape and structure. Otherwise the outfit can look shapeless and aimless.

You can tuck the top in tightly, or you can blouse it out a little. Every top and skirt combo will look different tucked tightly versus bloused out a little, so play around with it! You can also add a belt if you want even more definition.

2. Look for skirts that hit at your natural waist. This keeps tops in place better!

3. For skirts that hit the knee or above, either flats or heels work. With midi skirts, wear heels. This is not a hard and fast rule, and it’ll always depend on your body shape, the skirt, and style preference. But most often I prefer a little lift to elongate my legs when wearing a midi skirt.

I don’t own many midi skirts for that reason. I don’t love having skirts that I *always* have to wear with heels and prefer the versatility of a knee length skirt.

I love having open shoe options as an easy way to dress skirts up or down!

4. Find skirts that you can dress down or dress up with two simple outfit formulas:
Whenever I’m considering buying a skirt, I keep these two outfit formulas in mind. I try to imagine if the material will work with both combos or if it will be too fancy or too casual. Both outfit formulas worked with both of today’s skirts, even though they are made of different material. Denim is casual, but a blouse and heels stepped up the skirt!