Well, it's a fabulous idea is what it is. It's the answer to that perennial problem of how to keep your little girl looking together while she's in a dress or a skirt. It might be your three-year old doing the classic hitching-up of her dress to check on a situation that is going on with her stomach, letting the whole world in on the news that she's got her undies on backwards. It may be a four-year old, conscientiously smoothing her skirt over her knees, not yet aware that if your feet are on the chair and your knees are up around your chin, then the point of keeping your skirt down has been lost. It could be your five-year old, showing the dinner company how she's learned to stand on her head. Or it might be your 4th grader who likes to wear a skirt to school but also likes to jump off the swings...

The Skirty is the definitive answer to all of the above. It's cute, it's comfy, it's feminine, and it looks like what it is - an undergarment. But an undergarment that you don't mind the public at large seeing when it suddenly comes into view. Now I know that some people have tried to address this problem with a bike short (usually navy blue). But how depressing is it to get your little girl all dressed to the nines and then finish it off with a navy blue bike short? Because you realize of course that the whole point of the bike short is that everyone is going to see it - so why not make it cute? I would hesitate to say anything rude about the bike short approach, so I won't mention that they get pilly and they fade. I tactfully avoid the whole subject, not bringing up the fact that they are usually dreadfully designed so as to be far too high-waisted, puffy around the middle, tight in the legs, and generally un-cute. I don't mention these things.

I merely state that the Skirty, as opposed to the bike short, is fun. It's pretty. It's feminine. It's practical as all get out. It has a lower waistline that is nice and snug to keep things from getting too bunchy under there. The legs have just a slight flare. It's a nice lightweight cotton rib, with just enough lycra to help it keep its shape. And the lace is a soft and stretchy lycra to avoid that pitfall that far too many girls' clothes fall into - that pet peeve of my youth - scratchy lace. Didn't you always hate that? And that rose on the front just gives it that extra little bit of pizzazz. So I think I'm safe in saying that every little girl needs at least one of these. Then she can wear her favorite play dress and still climb trees, or cartwheel down the front sidewalk, or fly across the monkey bars, or anything else her heart desires. In short, she can be a little girl. And you'll have her covered.