>Popular fashion here among the ladies right now: short to >medium-length skirt (usually denim) OVER some form of pants. Or >any skirt with thigh-high leather. (Yum. :>)

Down, boy, down.

Actually, the skirt-over-pants look is not entirely uncommon. I've seen two people with it during the past week. I think its one of those things which just spontaneously appears in the minds of women world-wide as the new fashion for the month. Of course, with the weather we have, wearing just a skirt -- of any length -- is not exactly advisable, although women do it anyway ...

--Will