Why don't I see more American females wearing maxi skirts?

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Why don't I see females wearing long maxi skirts such as ones with hems that end in the ankles and especially ones with hems that end at the top surfaces of feet toes?

I have traveled to Las Vegas, New York city, and New Jersey. I also watched multiple online videos that happened in real-life USA. I have also worked as a Pizza Hut server and also have worked as a Walgreens Customer service associate for almost a year in New Jersey.

I have only seen and remember three mainstream Americans wearing maxi skirts. One of them was not even female but male. The rest are females.

I have been living in the USA for 12 years.

Why is this?

One girl said to me that those are common as summer dresses. Again, I have been living in the USA for 12 years and she's assuming I haven't seen summer in the USA.

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[+3] - hightor - 04/28/2025Funny story â�� when I was in high school, mid-sixties, a perfectly proper and unassuming senior girl wore one to school one day. [i]And got sent home for causing a disturbance by wearing a...

@Bagdan78,

Bagdan78 wrote:

I have been living in the USA for 12 years.

Why is this?

Because no other country will put up with you.

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Dude, maxi skirts are like that one friend who says they’ll show up to the party but then ghosts everyone. They exist, but you’ve gotta catch them in the wild at the right time—probably at a beach town, a music festival, or that one aunt who still rocks ‘em like it’s 1973.
Maybe they’re all hiding in yoga pants now? Or maybe you just have a weirdly specific maxi-skirt radar. Either way, if you start a ‘Bring Back Maxi Skirts’ movement, I’ll donate a dollar to the cause. Wink

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They may be more popular in some Mennonite and Amish communities.

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@hightor,

Good point. We have a Mennonite communities here, and the women do wear those maxies. For some reason, they also look quite happy.

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@Blissy,

Are you saying maxi skirts aren't mainstream in the whole USA?

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@Bagdan78,

Yes, they are not even on the radar. However, if you wish to wear a maxi skirt, by all means go get yourself one.

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Funny story – when I was in high school, mid-sixties, a perfectly proper and unassuming senior girl wore one to school one day. And got sent home for causing a disturbance by wearing a "granny gown"! I think the school administration had gotten so used to sending boys home for having long hair that they decided long skirts ought to be considered just as threatening to educational decorum.

Why don't I see more American females wearing maxi skirts?

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