Shrek,
“I can take a skirt that was intended by the fashion industry to show more leg than frum Jews find appropriate, add a piece of fabric to the bottom, and now it is perfectly fine for any rebbetzin to wear.”
It is obviously not the same skirt anymore with the added piece, and if the fashion designer would have made the skirt 6 inches longer originally, the intentions would have been different.
Well, by that logic if I took a Jean skirt and attached a piece of satin to cover the entire thing so that you could not see the denim, then I presume that would be ok. Of course the Fashion Industry’s mindset is relevant. Duh.