They may be slit or gored

Usage examples of skirts.

Hysteria bubbled almost to the surface with that thought, but she maintained a smooth face by sheer will and gathered her white silk skirts slightly.

Gathering her skirts, the yellow-haired sister darted past Nicola up the stairs.

Nicola spread her skirts in another curtsy, deeper this time, and words burst out of her in a rush.

Egwene, Nicola gathered her cloak and her skirts and went scrambling up the stairs so fast that twice she stumbled and nearly fell.

There was no choice save to gather her divided skirts and go along without a struggle.

She was a Red, and her charcoal-colored skirts had discreet red slashes, but her shawl lay draped across the back of the chair behind the writing table.

A washstand completed the furnishings, except for a three-legged stool, onto which Katerine promptly lowered herself, adjusting her skirts as though on a throne.

Her tone was still cool, her face serene, but her hands smoothed her embroidered white skirts unnecessarily.

Gathering her cloak and skirts, she went out, murmuring thanks to Lelaine for holding the flap for her.

Accepted named Anemara, who spread her striped skirts in a deep curtsy.

The other pair unarmored were women, one in blue with red on her skirts and breast, the other in gray.

She gathered her skirts and strode past Faile at little short of a trot, splashing mud as she went.

Her dark green skirts were sewn up on the left side to show red petticoats.

Selucia, watching over her shoulder in a white blouse and divided brown skirts, nodded.

Tuon was all in brocaded blue silk, a coat of odd cut that covered her hips and divided skirts so narrow they seemed to be wide trousers.