Next set of photos are on my blog at https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/10/early-1900s-call-album-page-42.html 'nPhotos were taken in 1909-1910 - possibly at Syracuse University where my great aunt Edith graduated from.

[pattyhankins@genealysis.social]

Next set of photos are on my blog at https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/10/early-1900s-call-album-page-42.html

Photos were taken in 1909-1910 - possibly at Syracuse University where my great aunt Edith graduated from.

My favorite photo on the page shows Edith and a friend ready to go ice skating - with their skates hanging over their shoulders! I don't know about anyone else - but I wouldn't want to try ice skating in a long skirt!

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[zeborah@mastodon.nz]

@PattyHankins Lovely! The skates remind me of the strap-on rollerskates I had when I was a kid.

I've definitely seen people doing casual ice skating in long skirts and I wouldn't mind trying it myself. You'd just have to avoid sit-positions and catch-foot tricks and such, but as long as you keep your blades under your hems and not the other way around you'd be fine... (Probably helps when you're used to wearing long skirts anyway and have the instinct for how they move and how to kick them out of your way as needed.)

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@PattyHankins surely those are short skirts suitable for sports, they easily clear the floor :D

and I agree with @zeborah , they probably would make doing advanced stuff more complicated, but for casually gliding around the ice (which is all I've ever done with ice skates) they don't look that much of a problem, I'd try it too