Originally Posted by KlibanQat

Where's a +1 when you need one?

I just don't wear the ankle-length skirts with my bikes, which has fenders but no chain guard. Mid-calf lengths are fine and actually stay down in most of the breezes. It's the skirts just below the knee which behave as poorly as miniskirts. None of the bike-ready skirts are fuller than a half-circle skirt.

I'm not sure what a "skirt saddle" is but from the way I've popped the back seams in the skirt which is too close to being a straight skirt, I can guess. It doesn't take much flare at all to prevent that. All I can say for sure is that the skirt where I measured my stride at the ankle and cut the skirt to fit is the one where the seams pop. The one which doesn't pop is maybe two inches wider at the mid-thigh point of stress, but that's enough.

Skirt guards should be named coat guards. They're nice to have for that job but no help with longer skirts. Maybe someone who wears knee-length skirts more often would disagree.