Knitted Midi Skirt - Patch-Pocket A-Line | Icomb

A knitted midi skirt with two deep patch pockets and a drawstring tie, cut in a brushed knit that feels closer to a jumper than to a skirt.

The knit is the point of it. It is a fine, dense plain knit with a brushed finish, matte and soft under the hand, and it carries enough weight to hang in clean folds rather than cling. From the waist the skirt widens steadily into a full A-line, so it swings as you walk and then settles. Wear it with a fine-gauge jumper tucked in, which is what the drawstring waist is there for, or with a shirt and boots. It is the piece that turns a jumper you already own into a knitted co-ord.

The fit

The waistband is a band of fine ribbing, elasticated the whole way round, with a flat knitted cord threaded through it and tied in a bow at the front. It pulls on: there is no zip, no button and no hook anywhere on the skirt. Below the waistband the body is smooth over the hip, then flares evenly to a level hem with no slit. The length reads as a long midi, 79 cm on an M and 81 cm on an L measured from the top of the waistband, which puts the hem at mid calf on most heights. Two sizes only, M and L, which we read as UK 8 to 10 and UK 12 to 14. One thing worth knowing before you choose: the maker publishes no waist measurement at all, only that the waist is elasticated, so the UK sizes in the size guide next to the size selector are our own reading of the garment rather than the maker's, and the elastic does most of the work between the two.

Details

• Fine brushed plain knit, matte and dense, soft under the hand
• Ribbed waistband, elasticated the whole way round, with a self-colour knitted drawstring tied at the front
• Two deep patch pockets sewn on the front at hip level, each with a folded rib top edge
• Full A-line body, no pleats and no gathers below the waistband
• Level hem, no slit and no vent
• Pulls on, no zip and no fastening of any kind
• Length 79 cm on an M and 81 cm on an L, from the top of the waistband
• The maker gives no fibre composition and no percentage, and none of its photographs shows a composition label, so we do not name a fibre here
• The maker does not say whether the skirt is lined, and none of its photographs shows the inside
• Cold gentle wash and dry flat, our own recommendation as the maker gives no care instructions

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