writers and long skirts: you're doing it wrong

[burntcopper]

Or rather their propensity to have the heroine cut/tear them off whenever there's action required.

Excuse me while I groan because it's clear you've never actually seen material cut or torn. It's up there with the writers who tear a shirt off someone for the sex scene - do you know how difficult this actually is?

Anyway: Person is wearing a long

Comments

[xenaclone]

Knot it up = good solution to fighting in plaid if one hasn't time to ditch it!

[snowballjane]

Hah, now I want to see someone rip a bias cut frock and go "oh. I wasn't expecting THAT." Or possibly hacking at a multi-panel skirt going "oh bloody hell, who overlocked these seams?"

[terrie01]

Hell, in the case of a skirt, it would be faster to take it off than to hack it up.

[marbleglove]

Hahahaha! I also studiously suspended my disbelief for the hacking of the skirts, but you make a very good point. They really should just hike them up, do kick ass stuff, and then let them down again.

[burntcopper]

99% of the time they do this in an evening gown, and snowballjane pointed out there is added silk, complex man-made fabric, sequins...