Every summer my daughter has to wear shorts to school under her summer dress or skirt if she wants to do any gymnastics on the playing field (it’s a modesty thing I presume). This year, I forgot to buy any new shorts and she forgot to mention that last years were too small! I decided that there had to be a better solution out there, surely someone would sell a school skort (skirt with shorts built in underneath)?
Apparently not. All I could find was culottes. So I then went on the hunt for a pattern. All I could find was culottes or tennis style skorts. But, being a brave and fearless seamstress (!) I decided I could alter a tennis skort pattern.