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Someone called at me out of a car "You're wearing a skirt, mate", which was hardly news to me. Unfortunately I was just crossing the road and couldn't hear his follow-up comment, so I don't know whether it was positive or negative.

When first wearing a skirt, I reckoned that half the people who noticed the skirt didn't notice that I was a man, and half the people who noticed that I was a man didn't notice the skirt. If you stick to the drab male colour scheme, you can often avoid notice.

I'm glad you heard him live. As a teenager I was more into Deep Purple than Black Sabbath (and more into prog rock than metal), but I thought Ozzy was one of the great showmen of the age.

As far as I’m concerned a kilt counts as trousers. I feel a bit like that too. On holiday in Scotland, a kilt feels a very 'safe' option, even though I haven't seen anyone else wearing one (outside the 'tourist zone' in Edinburgh). Really it's a skirt, but it doesn't challenge gender perception at ...

I have skirts at everything between fairly short denim minis down to floor length, and I really couldn't say I had a favourite length. It depends on how I feel, and what the temperature is!

Having accidentally timed a short break in Paris for the exact days when the temperature climbed to record levels, I was happy to spend one day of our visit in an ankle-length, olive-green Incerun skirt. As one would expect in Paris, there were a lot of very well-dressed people, including some men's...

I have the necessary chest mounds to fill out the chest area of my dresses. They are so comfortable, I wonder why more people, particularly women, don't wear them. I think you alluded to one of the reasons: women often wear dresses to accentuate their femininity, so dresses are often designed to em...

Just made my second venture out in a cropped T shirt, which although it was gender free in the ?1970s, now seems rather fem-gendered. The first time, I wore it over linen trousers, and got a long stare in Waitrose car park from an older guy. This time, I tried it with a long skirt, and got the kind ...

I mainly use hair elastics or scrunchies, or a large claw grip. But this week my wife decided to plait it, and we both liked the effect. Now I just need to master the skill of doing it myself!

Sizes are crazy: I always try to shop with a tape measure. Waist size is sometimes deceptive because a skirt may fit higher than trousers. One of my early purchases was a second-hand skirt labelled as "16", which is one of my tighter fits, and that misled me as to my likely size; on two oc...

We had a Pride march last weekend so, reckoning that practically anything wouldn't look out of place, I abandoned caution and wore a tartan mini skirt with black stockings and a black, somewhat cropped top. It's the first time I have dared to wear stockings rather than tights under a short skirt, bu...

At a quick glance, I like some things and hate others. No surprise there! Brown is one of my favourite colours; so is green, and there are some nice multi-layered looks in green there. One pair of loose shorts with a bag at the waist (Dior) looks so much like a kilt that they really should have been...

I happily wore the usual short shorts in the late 1960s and 1970s (and wore shorts to school until I was 12, though the school uniform ones were on the large and baggy side). Tubular shorts which reached nearer the knee were then the mark of a foreigner. After recently taking up running as exercise,...

:D :D One of the many things I don't understand is why the Pope has to get a new name. I think that happens with nuns as well. The pope doesn't have to. The custom developed gradually. When in the 6th century a man named Mercurius was elected pope, he felt that such a blatantly pagan name was inapp...

Just catching up with the forum after a few days away. I have to say there are a lot of very sensible comments in this thread. I have been engaged in a bit of discussion on Facebook with a friend who is a lifelong campaigner for women's rights (especially in 3rd world countries) and is definitely a ...