Since BlogHer is this week I have planned out my outfits scrupulously...does anyone else do that?

Anyway, today I pulled a new skirt out of the dry cleaning pastic to wear...as scrupulously planned. It's Calvin Klein, I got it on sale at Macy's, and I've worn it exactly once: At BlogHer Business last March.

Put it on to discover the hem is completely unraveling across the front! What to do?? Changing outfits just didn't seem an option. No, I had planned to wear this, and wear it I was going to do. So I went downstairs and grabbed some Scotch tape and taped that hem.

I'm classy like that.

Funny thing is when I tweeted this I got more @replies than I think I've ever gotten before. Seems lots fo women have had to do similar hacks in the absence of mad sewing skillz.

Some of their suggestions:

elleinthecity: @elisac I've been known to staple skirts. Heaven forbid I have to thread a needle and sew

JennaWoodul: @elisac I've been doing that since I was about 12 I think. Drove my mother crazy.

MaryTrigiani: @ElisaC You should try Hollywood tape. It's great for emergencies and holds better than scotch tape. PS: shame on that cleaner.

socalmom: @ElisaC I'm an old hand at Scotch taping hems. (5'2" -- too lazy to hand stitch)

hardaway: @elisac. I do that all the time. try duct tape

nominivan: @ElisaC you didn't use a stapler!!!?? :)

kalynskitchen: @ElisaC If I ever get there I have sewing stuff and will hem for you. (I'm former Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow and I can hem!)

lizhenry: @ElisaC I'll bring you duct tape, it works so much better for hems plus has a certain geeky aura to it

lauriewrites: @elisac Have done much worse clothing repair. Points for ingenuity.

Thanks for your support, tweeps!