Cycling in long skirts--more driver respect/care?

[shootingstar]

I was amazed to hear from another woman who does cycle where she does wear longish skirts cycling to work, etc. This is in Vancouver, downtown where she said half-laughingly that she found the drivers seemed to treat her as a cyclist more respectfully when she cycling in a (long) skirt.

She was responding to me after one of the ladies in our co-ed cycling group this weekend was cycling in a long flowing skirt..wth her cycling shorts underneath. She had knotted up her skirt abit at back so it wouldn't catch on wheel. She would have been cycling about town for approx. 35 kms. today.

Ok, this is news to me... driver respect for skirted women cyclists..not wearing mini skorts.

Not sure I could ever wear a flowing skirt while cycling. I did wear an above knee (3 inches above) wrap skirt in Hawaii...but there were no shorts underneath. I rode VERY carefully for 5 kms...