Abstract: A dance skirt is made up of overlapping, downwardly divergent panels, each panel individually connected at its upper edge to a common waistband but otherwise unconnected to one another so as to extend freely away from the waistband, the waistband having free ends releasably connectable to one another including tie members at the free ends, one of which is passed through an opening in a free end and tied to the other tie member so as to lay flat against the waistband.