Continuing on from what I’ve been posting about skants recently, I decided to make a few of my own.

To skip straight to the “typical” skant for humans, look to the large doodles on the right. It was originally a stiff tunic, kinda like the TNG skants, but you know what rides up if you try to sit in it? Stiff tunics. So I’ve gone for a pleated skirt design. Being tailored, it’ll lie flat and smart well, but also have plenty of freedom of movement. The inside is lined with the division colour, and there’s always a stripe of it visible. It can also be pinned up, if needed, which has the added bonus of creating a colour-band sash. Officers can pair the top with shorts, leggings or trousers, whichever they’d prefer or need to. Because of the side-split for mobility though, it’s necessary to wear one of those three things.

Over on the left, a Ktarian wears a skant paired with trousers, and underneath a Vulcan wears… well it’s a skant (with shorts), but it can’t help but look like a cape. I’m sure other versions exist too which are a bit less cape-like, and you probably won’t find many Vulcans in shorts. There’s also a Bajoran officer, wearing a skant with leggings.

In the middle, there’s a selection of humans, wearing a few different uniform designs. At the bottom there’s an officer wearing a long and less-tailored (no darts, no pleats, the side-split also starts further down) version of the skant, with trousers and a hijab in their division colour. Above is an officer wearing a non-tailored tunic - very similar to the maternity wear, but without the extra fabric to account for growth. So both of these officers are wearing versions of the uniforms more suited to people who either don’t want or cannot have their uniforms to be tailored to their shape.

Right up at the top, is Julian wearing two of his uniforms! He has a tailored version of the long skant which he wears with leggings. It looks like a bathrobe as a result, but I don’t think anybody has told him. He also has a tailored short skant (also paired with leggings), which he wears more commonly. His preferred style is to wear them with shorts, so they more closely resemble his old uniform.

I think in general, given the variation needed to outfit every single member species of Starfleet (at least those that wear clothes), Starfleet doesn’t have set uniforms so much as they have a “style guide”, plus probably only two rules: 1) A minimum of 10% of your visible uniform must be your division colour, and 2) Your division colour must be visible in some way from every angle. So many more skirt style uniforms other than these will exist, based on factors such as religion and culture, identity, whether that person experiences dysphoria of any kind, etc. The same is somewhat true of the jumpsuits and trouser versions of the uniform, which may be more or less tailored to shape depending on the person wearing it, for example.