2011 Fashion alert! Men in skirts! Get use to it!

[knowsbleed]

I'm a staunch defender of the fanny pack/man purse.

I often carry one like this (that's not me nor do I look anything like him):

... but mine looks a lot more like this:

 

[Manic]

I have pockets. My keys, phone, wallet, a pen, and mp3 player all fit in my pockets just fine. I keep a small piece of scratch paper, money, a condom, my glasses prescription, and my cards in my wallet.

 

[knowsbleed]

I no longer live in the '90s when I used to wear ridiculously baggy jeans with huge pockets. Normal fitting/slim pants (I'm not talking about skinny jeans which will never been worn by me) don't have all the pocket space I require.

But I've digressed enough. Marc Jacobs looks ridiculous in those skirts.

 

[Alex The Great]

I will never, EVER, wear skirts. And if I see one of my guy friends wearing a skirt, I will mock him to his grave

 

[Dreadstar]

The NY Times May 27, 1876 p.6 editorial "A Curious Disease" said women in trousers needed treatment in "the best conducted hospitals for the insane." Later comes WWII and puts 17 million women into pants, breaking psychiatry's curse on women of being stuck in skirts. That curse still binds on men however. Psychiatry is extremely toxic to all human liberties. Slaves that wanted freedom had "drapetomania."

Roman soldiers were excessively masculine and wore skirts. Trousers are a horse back riding invention. Skirts and trousers are style differences never sex differences. Sex differences occur in anatomically distinct items like athletic supporters and bras. Men are senselessly denied human rights in clothing. This is the fault first of psychiatry and second, of religious fanaticism.

Psychiatry invents hateful labels for "diseases" that do not exist (forms of behavior of which majorities are intolerant, thereby validating the intolerance) and BLOCKS human rights. They invented "transvestism" in 1910 in common parlance "cross-dressing." The fact that both sexes are born naked is of no matter to their vile definition.

 

[Manic]

1. No one here is calling men who wear skirts diseased.

2. Modern psychiatry and societal norms say a lot of stuff about how we should dress in public. I'm apparently not supposed to walk around outside in my underwear. If I did so, I'd get arrested.

3. I wasn't born naked. I was born with underpants on, like a Ken doll.

 

[Dreadstar]

No, no one here is calling men that wear skirts diseased. But they are calling them either gay/transvestite/cross dresser. There is nothing wrong with being gay, or a transvestite, or a cross dresser. But in labeling skirt wearing men as such, there is a negative connotation associated with said label. They could have just as easily gave the man a compliment for his bold choice of clothing. Its as if they are somehow not a "real" man because they choose to wear a skirt. Remember kids, its a democracy out there. That means I have free choice. Brave men and women died in the World Wars for my right to choose!

I am a straight guy, I prefer to wear skirts. End of story. And not the frilly fem skirts either. Lets not jump to extremes.

I said that you can wear what you want as long as you:

1. Break no laws

2. Hurt no living thing.

SO, going outside in public in your underware is breaking the law.

 

[knowsbleed]

Dreadstar, until you provide pics of your skirtful fashionery, I don't think anybody is going to side with you. Bring it... we'll embrace it.

 

[Timstuff]

I feel so bad for "fashion-savvy" men. They have to look so stupid just to be fashionable. I am so happy that I am a normal, non-fashionable person who has a giant collection of graphic T-shirts and blue jeans.

 

[The Original Bamfer]

Skirts? Hell no. Kilts? OH HELL YES!

 

[Silvermoth]

It's funny how half a year ago people thought we would genuinely be wearing skirts in 2011. Here's 2011 and ta-da! No skirts!

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Hahaha, silly people.

 

[Harls]

The year is still young ... :P

 

[Gamma Ray]

I always hear women complain about skirts. Shouldn't something that provides a constant flow of air be more comfortable?

 

[Grillz]

I want the suit with the matching hat and gators!

 

[garyrenard]

I was born and raised in San Francisco for 20 years. The sight of men in skirts is not a new thing for me.

 

[kiltie]

This is my first post but I must admit I may not post again with the attitudes here. I felt I had to counter the anti-skirtman posts above, by supporting Dreadstar. He seems to be the only one making any sensible comments

Some of you men may never wear a skirt - but why should we all conform to your narrow view? Or get mocked, ridiculed or labelled gay? How many gay people do you know and do they all wear skirts? I think gay men would be even less likely than normal heterosexual men to try one with the attudes prevalent here are anything to go by.

Substitute the word "gay" for "black" and the prejudice is obvious.

Someone above asked for picture evidence - here is a website with many pics. A few of them are kilts (which some of you might wear) but many others are skirts. So there -> they do exist. It may not be fashionable but there is a movement to promote that there is an alternative to trousers all the time.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/meninskirts/

A final thought - Just think back to the shock and horror when Kathryn Hepburn turned up at an award ceremony in TROUSERS!!! Now it is considered almost "de rigueur" for women to wear them and only on special occasions wear something else like a dress/skirt. Men in skirts will happen because it has already started!

 

[Sawyer]

I always hear women complain

Truth.