Are UGs An Endangered Species?

[Silk]

I think it's a cultural shift for the most part. Jeans has become almost the "uniform" worn by the masses today. Ironically, I don't own jeans and have worn them very few times in my life because I hate the heavy and constrictive feeling of them! I have always preferred dresses and skirts myself but you know what, nowadays I am more often in shorts or pants, not because I prefer them (because I definitely DON'T) but because of the cost of buying a nice skirt or dress is prohibitive for many of us. I only wish I could afford some nice skirts and dresses! (It doesn't help that I'm 5'2" so it is harder for me to find them for my height and when I do, the cost seems even worse.)

As for my younger days in high school, I went to a convent school where the school uniform had 3 options for girls: grey pants and a white shirt, grey skirt and a white shirt or a kilt and a white shirt. To me there was no question that I wanted to wear the kilt and I did, 5 days a week for 2 years (until the school closed and I was shipped to a school that only allowed a grey skirt or pants.) But interestingly enough, some girls opted for pants or at least the grey skirt and even those who opted for the kilt would not put it on till they arrived at school and would take it off before going home. Myself, I travelled to and from school in my kilt quite proudly. ;) lol

I will say that one problem when I do wear a skirt or dress out is that sometimes it can result in some embarrassing moments when a gust of wind shows up. That's not to say that you don't have underwear on but even still, no one wants the whole street looking at their underwear! ;)

Silk

P.S. Vulnerability while wearing a skirt or dress is possibly part of the problem too. I know that I have been on dates in the past where the fellow has tried to take liberties let's say because I was wearing a skirt and with the ever increasing tendencies towards boldness that I've seen, I could understand how it might make other girls feel vulnerable too.