Casual dress?

"Crisp, Kim?" She waved the packet of crisps in my face. I smiled, shook my head.
"No ta. My hands are kind of occupied with holding my skirt down."
Laughter from my best friend as she took the crisps back. Lovely. As if the odd looks I was getting from passers by wasn't enough!

You see, today, for the first time since I was about 8, I wore a dress - willingly and of my own choice - outside. As casual wear. Usually, if I am to wear a dress, it is due to some sort of party or do where dressing up is required, like birthdays or parties or such. I never wear dresses as casual wear.
Except I did.
It was a 2-in-1 affair, a long jumper with a skirt peeking out of the bottom. It's very nice - not too long (so I don't look like my mother) and not too short, although it does fall above the knees.

When I put the dress on and started on my way to my friend's house, it was a glorious day.
By the time I got there, there was quite a wind.

As you can imagine, I was having a lot of fun trying to prevent a Marilyn moment - while I'm sure my lovely friend would have killed herself laughing, I didn't fancy my dress lifting and showing off my underwear for all passerby...s (passers-by? passerbys? passerbies? Hmmmm - none of those sound/look right...) to see!

Moral of the story: dresses for casual wear = BAD.