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Just back from my skirted dress shopping, having chosen to wear the tight skirt by Next. Five new dresses and one skirt bought, all tried on. I almost changed into the very loose new skirt but I need higher heels as it is white and very long indeed and would have trailed on the ground. My friend was...

I am going dress shopping today and can't be bothered doing the whole dressing as a woman thing so going as man in skirt. I have two skirts to choose from that I bought recently. The problem is that at this time of year you need to wear tights unless you want to freeze. One of the skirts is a long b...

I have done this twice in public, both times when presenting as a woman. Once was when staying in a country house hotel. I had an old-fashioned black and white polka dot fifties dress by Vivien of Holloway and consulted the receptionist about wearing it for dinner in the hotel and she said to go for...

Though there is a lot of truth in the stereotyping described here, I think reality is more nuanced. If a woman dresses in a very masculine way most of the time she will probably be suspected of being gay - it is not true that there is zero criticism. Her masculinity will be more criticised by women ...

Today (Sat 20 April) there is a letter (in a series of letters on male baldness) in the print Guardian from a Sam Heath "a now nearly completely hairless man with alopecia" who lists five advantages of this status, the last of which is "my legs look good in a dress". No explanati...

Agree that the term TV should be consigned to the dustbin. I wear a skirt as a man and also at times present fully a a woman in public, complete with make up, wig, voice and body language. Other times I just wear a skirt and everything else is male. For me there is no boundary between full cross dre...

I confess I had never distinguished between ethics and morals on the basis that of you strive to the highest levels of both you can't go wrong. Interesting distinction. I find the Daily Fail a subject for amusement but it isn't really funny that so many people are influenced by this hysterical drive...

Thanks - I had not known the origin of the pictures. I have seen the film but am not really a film buff - I prefer books. I can recall the film slightly but no the dresses - I probably thought of them as tunics. I recall some SF book mentioning kilts but can't recall this in The Time Machine even th...

Article about Harry Styles in today's Guardian. The online version is at https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/06/this-is-our-shrine-why-harry-styles-fans-are-on-pilgrimage-to-a-viaduct It doesn't have the picture that is shown in the print edition of HS in a dress with a tutu skirt. It is the ...

I see nothing sci-fi about these dresses. They seem perfectly ordinary summer dresses that look very comfortable in warm weather. I already have several like this including a coupe in linen.

I am one of a minority on this site who present as women occasionally as well as a man in a skirt/dress. At no point to identify as a woman and I do not feel I am embracing any femininity because I don't have any. I am acting. That's all. I share this exasperation with any adoption by men of anythin...

My mother wore trousers in the 1940s, before I came along. She grew up in a religious community and got a lot of criticism but she refused to be intimidated. Despite this I never saw my mother in trousers until I was in my twenties. Selling skirts to men can be a success. Top Man sold sarongs some y...

There is more than one country in the modern west. it has never been unconstitutional for women to wear trousers in the UK though I understand it was illegal for women to wear trousers in Paris until very recently, the same as adultery is apparently still illegal in New York - some laws are not enfo...

Obviously the social side of skirt wearing has some way to go. I am old enough to remember when it was difficult to purchase skirts because you would rarely be able to try them on. That has changed beyond recognition in 30 years, I probably don't have another 30 to wait for it to become socially acc...

I think we are looking for problems here. Going into a shop and buying a skirt or a dress and trying it on first is completely straightforward in the UK at least. I can't see how marketing to men as well as women will change this. Personally I think we are already where we want to be. Retailers reco...