Else what's a heaven for?

I recently made a monumental discovery: with skirts, it doesn't matter that my "commuting shoes" aren't the same height as my pretty shoes, I won't be dragging my clothes on the NYC streets if I wear a skirt. YAAY! It doesn't help with the pants that all need to be shorter now that my waist is thinner, but at least I have more clothes to wear now and I can wear the impractical shoes I seem to be accumulating.

I used to joke that I (tried to) wear skirts to work once a week so that my cow orkers wouldn't think I'm some sort of lesbian or something, but then last week, when I actually wore a skirt a third time in three weeks, Raita mentioned it so, um.

Fashion is hard. I'm not good at noticing details, esp. of stuff I don't find immediately relevant, but has there been a shift in the "fashionable" length of a skirt or am I developing more clue? On my first skirt suit, my mum told me to get it shortened so that it hit just above the knee, so every skirt I've bought since then has been shortened to that length. I've bought a few since then that didn't get shortened and now that I'm using that part of my closet more often, I've noticed the ones that fall right below the knee (so that the first bit of leg you see is the narrow part), look more "right" whereas above the knee somehow looks trashy. ARGH.