By Abby Buchanan
Round Table reporter

Recent spring weather has inspired popular new trends such as styles of dresses, different types of sunglasses, and, perhaps the most popular new trend, the floral skirt.

MHS freshmen Ally Soule is the proud owner of 18 floral skirts. MHS junior Emily Gallagher beats her out with 29 skirts, not including floral dresses or repeated skirts in different colors.

Soule thinks that the skirts are so popular because “they’re bright, girly, and fun. Different from shorts, skirts in general are more comfortable and make you simply feel, well, prettier.”

The main reason that the new skirts are popular is because of the warm weather that has hit recently. As soon as the weather hit mid-70s, almost every girl at school whipped out their dresses and skirts and went “spring shopping.”

Many girls can be seen wearing them either high waisted with a belt or worn like a normal skirt, at the hips.

Soule and Gallagher bought their skirts at Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle, Old Navy, Hollister, Macy’s, Wal-mart, Target, and Charlotte Russe.

Most of these stores, particularly Charlotte Russe, have a big display of the new skirts right in the front of the store, encouraging girls to buy them.  These stores try to push the latest trend because they know that once the trend picks up those skirts will sell like crazy.

This tactic worked on Gallagher, she describes her favorite skirt as “navy blue with purple and magenta flowers on it.”

According to Soule, one of the main reasons these skirts sell so well is because they are comfortable and stylish. “I know when I get dressed in the morning I have two things in mind: comfort and style.”

Gallagher thinks the reason these skirts have gotten so popular is “because it is a quick and easy outfit to throw on but it is also really stylish because of the synched waste.”

Both Gallagher and Soule agree that the new trend took off because of the recent spring weather but the first signs of the new trend actually started during the winter months. “The recent floral trend began in the winter but, for comfort, we added tights,” said Soule. One of Gallagher’s favorite things about the tights is that “when it’s warm you can wear them with a tank top and flip flops but if it’s cold you can also wear them with leggings, boots, and a sweater.”

Soule and Gallagher are just two of the many girls at MHS sporting the spring floral skirt.