Ok, speaking sensu stricto historically, I'd like to know your ideas about a thing that bothers me a little bit. I might be splitting hair, but bear with me.
I'm not really a fan of how female minifigs are solved in LEGO; I'm namely concerned with legs. Although the "skirt" solution is clever and it gives us lots of nice printings, it's too blocky, the women can't sit down or ride the horse properly, and viewev from the side, they look too blocky. Using the normal legs makes them a bit masculine for my liking, and it's not exactly historical either. (One may argue that they don't wear trousers but say wool leggings, but it still doesn't make them wear skirt or dress.)
there's of course a possibility to use the cloth skirts, yet they are not really nice, they don't come in that many colours, and I don't know how they limit legs articulation.
I thought about some solution to this "issue", but the only thing I came with was to build a skirt+legs+shoes with a 2x1 brick for skirt, 1x1 round plates for each leg and then 1x1 square plate for shoe. It's... not nice, really.
So, what's your solution for female legs? Do you prefer the original dress, even though it limits the movement? Do you use minifig legs? Or do you have some better idea?
Thanks for help!