Usage Note
jupe is the standard word for a skirt. A mini-skirt is une mini-jupe and a pleated skirt is une jupe plissée. The idiom être dans les jupes de sa mère ('to be in one's mother's skirts') means to be overly dependent on one's mother, equivalent to 'tied to one's mother's apron strings'.
Examples
"Elle porte une jupe rouge aujourd'hui."
Natural Translation
She is wearing a red skirt today.
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