Construction of vertical skirt at the base of the footing, to confine the underlying soil and generate a soil resistance on skirt side that helps the footing to resist sliding, is one of the recognized bearing capacity improvement techniques. In this research, laboratory investigation combined with numerical analysis was performed to study the behavior of one sided skirted strip footing subjected to eccentric load. A range of load eccentricities and skirt lengths were investigated. Bearing capacity values for all cases were compared to come up with the favorable design conditions.