--- title: This $20 Amazon Skirt Is My Favorite Piece of Clothing description: I bought it on a whim, and now I can't live without it. authors: - name: Martha C. White role: Writer url: https://money.com/author/martha-c-white/ education: BA, English, Princeton University at_money_since: 2015 articles: 350 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Federal Reserve Rate Cuts - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology published: '2019-08-08T16:14:34.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T12:02:53.000Z' section: Lifestyle word_count: 464 canonical: https://money.com/amazon-skirt-favorite-piece-of-clothing/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![190807-Amazon-Skirt-Impulse-Buy](https://img.money.com/2019/08/amazon-skirt-impulse-buy.jpg) Necessity might be the mother of invention, but sometimes necessity plus laziness can lead to a really great bargain find. Last winter, I was taking a trip to someplace warm. I had nothing to wear. I live in a small condo, so my summer clothes hibernate in plastic bins inside a storage unit a few towns over. I was busy, the weather was lousy — and [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com) beckoned. I’ll admit, it seemed easier and a lot more appealing to have something new show up on my doorstep with a few clicks than to schlep out to the storage unit and dig through bins in the freezing cold. I know, I know — unnecessary spending and fast fashion and throwaway culture and Marie Kondo and all that. But my seasonal sluggishness overrode my wasteful-consumerism guilt and I went ahead and ordered [this maxi skirt](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BLHJB1D). I rationalized it, thinking because it’s actually convertible to a dress as well as a skirt, I’d get lots of mileage out of it on my trip. Plus, it was *cheap* — less than $20 — cheap enough that I told myself I’d just donate it after getting back home so it wouldn’t hang around in my closet taking up space. But then, something funny happened after I got back from my trip. I started reaching for that skirt often. Lunch with my mother-in-law? It was perfect. Networking group meetup? On point. Al fresco date night? Hits the spot. (I wore it as a dress that time, dressed up with a beaded belt [like this one](https://www.amazon.com/International-Concepts-Beaded-Stretch-Belt/dp/B07B4LGDKM).) Community gardening event followed by drinks with friends? Check and check — a feat that would be basically impossible for any other article of clothing to accomplish. It became my closet’s breakout hit. ![](https://img.money.com/2019/08/joop-joop-2-skirt-amazon.png) At a glance, it might not look like much: A [maxi skirt](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BLHJB1D) with an asymmetrical hem, smocked elastic waist and a faux belt. You can pull it up so that the waist ties turn into halter straps and the oversized waistband becomes the top of a dress. Simple. But its beauty is in that versatile simplicity. It’s one-size-fits-all, effortlessly flattering thanks to all that elastic and pairs well with a shocking number of items already in my closet. (I went with a circular pattern in a black-white-brown color combo, but you can choose from [more than a dozen](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BLHJB1D) hues and prints.) It's all cotton, I can chuck it in the washer and I don't need to iron it. Win all around! I seriously wear this about once a week now. At this point, I can confidently say that I’ve gotten my $18 worth out of this skirt many times over. 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