Test a theory

I thought back to my climb up the stairs last night, and decided I could test a theory by using the newly acquired mirror. Knowing that my entire floor was unlikely to crawl out of their beds until well past 7:00 gave me plenty of time. I headed back to my room, quietly checking to make sure my roommate was still asleep. She had shifted a bit, but she was completely out. I carefully pulled the mirror from under the bed and headed out to the stairway. As usual, the stairs were deserted, though I detected a strong cigarette smell indicating someone had violated the university's no-smoking policy by lighting one up in the stairway during the night.

I took the mirror down to next landing and positioned it so that it was facing toward the top landing. From here, I guessed, it would mimic the view of a very short person coming up the stairs below me. I proceeded back to the top of the stairs and looked down. Sure enough, my skirt was so far below my knees that there was no way for anyone on the steps to know that I wasn't wearing panties.

Next, I decided to see how much leeway I had for these stairs. Reaching down to my sides I slowly scrunched up my skirt, carefully watching my reflection in the mirror below. The skirt moved above the knee, but there was still no way to see anything. Finally, as I pulled it above the middle of my thigh, I could begin to see something, and as I pulled it a bit higher, I was staring down at a reflection of my unshaven pubic hairs. After turning around, I did a similar check of the backside which confirmed that skirt lengths from near the mid-thigh and lower would be safe for stairs.

For the next experiment, I retrieved the mirror and headed back to my floor. I could hear a few sounds from waking students in the nearby rooms but the hallway was vacant. I leaned the mirror against the wall opposite the drinking fountain, and then went to get a drink. I bent over as if getting a drink and peered back at the mirror. Once again, the long skirt gave no indication that I wasn't wearing panties. I hiked it up to around mid-thigh length and checked again. If I didn't bend over too far, it was fine, but if I bent over far enough, a low angle viewer might be able to see my butt.

Before ending, I tried to mimic a pose made by one of the girls in the NiP folder. I hiked up the skirt even further, and spread my legs far apart, holding them straight. Then I bent over sharply while arching my back slightly. As I turned my head to look back, I could see my entire butt and crotch reflected clearly in the mirror. I stood for several seconds admiring the beauty of my own lower body. Just then, a door across the hall started to open, and I immediately pulled down my skirt, stood up and went to retrieve the mirror. The neighboring student was only half-awake, and she barely noticed me on her way toward the elevator. I headed back to the room and returned the mirror under my bed. My roommate was still sound asleep, and she probably wouldn't wake up until well after 10am. I still had some time to kill, but I decided I'd done enough around the dorms, so I headed to over to the campus.