Help - I can't walk in my skirt!

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Lol, I have a new skirt - the long kind that almost touches the floor and it's not very big around at the bottom (18 inches across), so it kinda restricts the size of my steps when I'm walking. When I try to walk with this thing on I look like a circus freak! My husband and sister, who are usually my biggest supporters, laugh out loud every time I walk across the room. (They've both tried to show me what I'm doing wrong but no progress yet...) Other women wear skirts that are even more restrictive than this one and they don't seem to have any trouble walking... I also know from past experience that I can't walk in high heels. Is it just me or is this a normal female aspie thing?

I can't wear constricting clothes, it drives me crazy. I can wear high heels but only if the heel is thick. I can't wear the pointy ones. Anyway heels make me over 6 ft tall so I usually don't wear them.

What exactly is the point of such clothing? Is it the modern day equivalent of foot-binding, making the woman look helpless and therefore more 'feminine'?

The thing is, other women don't usually look helpless in such clothing. Somehow they can pull it off...

Maybe that's why aspies aren't supposed to care about fashion - as far as physical movement goes it doesn't work, also there's the sensory problems some people have, and you have to have a certain kind of outward attitude and personality to pull off certain fashions and many of us are lacking that. Must be a glitch in my wiring, that I want to wear this crazy stuff.

Maybe you just have a big stride and need to try to take smaller steps?

Well, I have to admit, a lot of really beautiful clothes feel horrible to wear. That's why I'm usually in sweats.

dont know why, but this topic kind of reminds me of a girl i knew in highschool who dressed all 1950s. lipstick, hairstyle, crazy glasses design, old grandma dresses that would have been popular in the 50s, etc.

I can wear high heels easily if I practise walking in them for a little, I have to say I walked alot better then half the girls at graduation who took tiny little steps and couldn't walk down the hill to the carpark. But there's no way I could wear one of those skirts because my walk would make it really hard. And my legs would get claustraphobic. Well, I'd feel really trapped and have to take if off. Maybe you could add in a couple of slits along the side so it's still kind of fitting but you can walk in it as well?

Don't walk, roller-skate!

Does the skirt have a split at the bottom? That could make a big difference in how restrictive it is to your walking. I once had this summer dress that came down to my ankles. Unbeknownst to me, it didn't have a split so it was impossible to take normal steps while wearing it.

Oh, and high heels? I've said plenty already about my hatred of those torture devices from hell. I only have one pair and that's only because I need all my dress shoes to have a strap around the ankle so they won't slip off my extremely narrow feet. And it seems only high heels come with these.

<-- me picturing this

I can walk fine in high heels- but CHUNKY ones. I walked around a slighly icy campus in boots that give me 3 1/2" or 4" though they're almost platform-y instead of all heel and I was OK, though a little slower since I haven't walked in them in awhile. Normally I walk in shoes that give me about 2", and again, kinda platform-y.

The last dress I had to wears my witch costume. I kept tripping on the stairs. Why do people wears high heels that has really skinny stick things and they look like theyre going to break? I dont why they dont break.

I can't walk in skirts either, because I almost never wear them. And I absolutely refuse to wear high heels. On formal occasions I look dead short because everyone else is in heels and I'm in flats.