Hi,

Sorry,  not a woman but I have thought about this!

On a long hike it might be necessary to cover up several time and it's best if it can be done quickly and smoothly. Many men use kilts or other types of wrap skirts, others loose shorts that go on over boots without too much chance of getting caught up. Many of these are home-made or custom adapted in some way.

The problem for women and the top half is that normally you'd be wearing a back-pack with food, water, clothing and so on, so getting on a T-shirt or something like that is a deal of trouble.

If I were making something, I think I'd try a sort of bib for the front only, held up by a loop around the neck, and extending down to two wings that would wrap around to form a skirt, closed with Velcro. That would go on by just putting the loop over the head and wrapping the skirt part to the back, all with the backpack still in place.

I have been on one SOC walk which included a couple of women but I completely failed to observe how they managed it.

Cheers,

Missy,

When I went on a nude walk with some friends, one of the women who took part brought a long skirt with an elasticated waistband. When we saw other walkers and she wanted to cover up, she stepped into the skirt and pulled it up over her breasts. I think she had a small daypack on; all she had to do when pulling the skirt up past her waist was to lean backwards a tiny bit, so that the pack wasn't pressing on her back. To the best of my recollection, her pack didn't have a waist strap.

If you like, I can email her and ask her for more information.

Good luck with the walking.

Philip.

I find that a strapless dress with an elasticated top is very easy to put on or I carry a sarong which you can wrap around you pretty quickly.

Missy i find the best item for nude walking is a long summer skirt with a deep elasticated waist band , they are easy to step into and one can pull them up over breasts quite quickly and they stay in place till anyone as passed ,also you roll them up quite small and put it in a shoulder bag as we find nude walking is always better with less items to carry round , always happy to take PMs and emails if you need any more help . sue

My one-time naturist girlfriend used to carry just a long and loose T-shirt, in her hand or rolled up and hung round her shoulders to stop sunburn. Light to carry, quick to put on and it falls down and covers everything in a moment without even looking odd. If you get a plain one you can even put it on back-to-front if you're in a rush. The only problem as others have pointed out is the backpack - it did provide the perfect excuse to hand baggage duties over to me!

For women I would have thought the issue would be much simpler - a light wrap around dress perhaps even left on that could then be pulled together when necessary in a few seconds.

I think a loose tee shirt is an excellent idea for a lady. When I go for a nude walk, I always have a loose pair of shorts in my hand, then I can whip them on real quick if I spot a walker on the green lane I walk nude on.

Fashion and tailoring tips for naturists: oooh, the irony.

Although I’m not an experienced rambler, either naked or dressed, I assume the challenge here is to identify something that can be slipped on quickly to cover both pubis/bottom AND breasts without (as Nib mentioned) first removing a backpack/rucksack.

Items that are typically pulled down over one’s head, such as a poncho, tee shirt or night shirt, would presumably need to be XXXL-sized to get over even a small backpack/rucksack without significant impediment (and, I suggest, would make the wearer look silly), so are not ideal.

Items that are typically wrapped around one’s body from bust to thighs, such as a dress-sarong, bath towel or other random large piece of fabric would presumably have the same deficiencies as the above items (if wrapped around the worn backpack/rucksack) or would require (at least a bit of) time-consuming activity to get it under the backpack/rucksack, so, again, are not ideal.

Items that are typically stepped into and pulled up over one’s bust, such as a maxi skirt with an elasticated waistband, seem to me to hold more promise. Although such an item would require a bit of ‘fidgeting’ to get under a backpack/rucksack, it's still quite quick to put on under a backpack/rucksack (without a waist strap): I’ve just tried it.

I acquired a large, decent quality (so it is sufficiently long) shirt from a man substantially larger than me and made a ‘shirt dress’ like this one: http://www.thesewingdirectory.co.uk/how-to-make-a-shirt-dress It was simple to do, and if I can do it, it must be easy for most to do. I'm pleased with it because I think it looks quite pretty, even if I do say so myself.

Having read Nib’s  posting about ‘a sort of bib for the front only, held up by a loop around the neck, and extending down …’  and having ambled about some clothing shops (horror of horrors for naturists, perhaps?) got me thinking. Dungarees seem to be in fashion at the moment and they incorporate a ‘bib’, albeit a bib held up by shoulder straps rather than a halter neck. So how about this:

Take some dungarees (I suggest in traditional blue denim, but lightweight not heavy denim, perhaps the stretchy type containing 5% Lyra?) and remove the back and shoulder straps by unpicking from the back of the waistband. Take the metal loops off the shoulder straps and attach them onto a strip of fabric to be used as a halter neck strap. If you don’t mind discarding the back and shoulder straps you could use the fabric from that. Alternatively, you could get trouser dungarees, cut off the legs to make them shorts dungarees and use the fabric from the legs to make the new halter neck strap. (You’ll probably want shorts rather than trousers, anyway.) Another alternative would be to get skirt dungarees and take the hem up a bit and use the resulting spare fabric to make the halter neck strap. (If you preserve the back and shoulder straps you could attach some metal ‘jeans buttons’ to the bottom of the back and make buttonholes in the back of the waistband, then you’d also have nearly ‘normal’ dungarees too.)

I wonder if my backless dungarees (either full length, shorts or skirt variety) would be naturist-friendly and function satisfactorily? As the waistband is loose it would be easy to step into and pull up to one’s waist – at least as easy, if not easier than normal shorts – with only a simple extra movement to pull up the bib an hold it in place with the halter neck strap (which may be okay as one part or may need to be in two parts which join with, say, a press stud). I guess it would probably leave some ‘side boobage’ on show but it would certainly cover nipples and areolae (while standing upright anyway), so perhaps non-naturists would not be too traumatised?

I don't beeLIeve it!!  Men answering on this topic.  When my wife was alive I restricted my views on female attire to"That looks fine, Darling"  Anything else required lots of tact.

I don't beeLIeve it!!  Men answering on this topic.  When my wife was alive I restricted my views on female attire to"That looks fine, Darling"  Anything else required lots of tact.

I am in total agreement wit this one, even with "That looks great darling", I often get, "If you don't like it, just say"

I don't beeLIeve it!!  Men answering on this topic.  When my wife was alive I restricted my views on female attire to"That looks fine, Darling"  Anything else required lots of tact.

I am in total agreement wit this one, even with "That looks great darling", I often get, "If you don't like it, just say"

That's because women's 'intuition' incorporates have both sarcasm sensors and white lie detectors - don't ya know? - a man's tone of voice and his body language often say a lot more than his minimal word count.

Of course, this isn't necessarily a significant problem if her chosen attire can be simply discarded or easily altered, but it could troublesome if her chosen attire is her 'birthday suit'.

I've led a few nude walks on moorland and there have always been a few women on them. Also done several nude walks in mixed groups in Spain.
All the women have used a full size and very light sarong.
They often carry their stuff in a hiking waist bag.
They have all seemed to have less trouble than the men with fumbling.  🙂

I don't beeLIeve it!!  Men answering on this topic.  When my wife was alive I restricted my views on female attire to"That looks fine, Darling"  Anything else required lots of tact.

I am in total agreement wit this one, even with "That looks great darling", I often get, "If you don't like it, just say"

That's because women's 'intuition' incorporates have both sarcasm sensors and white lie detectors - don't ya know? - a man's tone of voice and his body language often say a lot more than his minimal word count.

Of course, this isn't necessarily a significant problem if her chosen attire can be simply discarded or easily altered, but it could troublesome if her chosen attire is her 'birthday suit'.

You have just reminded me of an occasion when I told my sister who had just dressed to go out (luckily not my wife) that her stockings were wrinkled.
She was wearing leg make-up.  :-[

Kaya's long post above left me thinking that a version of the backless halter dress but with a wrap-round skirt (rather than the pencil skirt usually associated with these dresses on starlets at award ceremonies) might be a practical solution.