I have been waiting and waiting to get my two LOFT silk drape skirts tailored. It's been so long! I finally had time to go to my tailor and boy was it expensive! For 2 skirts and 2 pairs of pants, I almost fainted at the price! The tailoring was more than what the items cost! The price we have to pay to be petite. I got both of these skirts for $9.88 on final sale during LOFT's massive sale awhile back. I scooped up both in a 00P for such an amazing price so even after alteration costs, it comes out to be about $40 per skirt. Not bad for 100% silk.
I had to take in the waist and sides. Here is a before pic of it sitting on my low waist. At first, I thought I could get away with it and attempted to wear it to work and it just did NOT look right. I couldn't tuck anything in and the back of the skirt looked horrid. The skirt- un-altered hangs way too low and looks very strange.  It needs to sit were my natural waist is - up where my belly button is.