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I think Primary.com are fairly unique in that their Unisex or Gender Neutral children's clothing clothing has dresses and they actually sometimes show a boy modeling a dress. The question is how could we arrive at it being normal to see boys (and men) wearing dresses, not just in an online catalog t...

What did I wear today? Pants I just got back from walking the dogs, or rather slip sliding on the icy ground. It's minus 14 C right now with a windchill of minus 23C. Oh Canada.

Barleymower wrote "It's not the first time this has happened. I was not old enough to remember but in the 1960s there was another attempt to revolutionise menswear and escape the man box. It failed." I was a young married man with kids and a mortgage in the 1960s, so I remember thinking MI...

Thankyou Tom. It is almost 11 years since she died so I am more or less over it. We were close to our 50th anniversary. Yes she was supportive of kilts, nightshirts and things that had some claim to masculinity. In the 1960s there was a vogue for men to wear Kaftans, and she made matching kaftans fo...

I took a lightweight kilt which my late wife made for me to be dry cleaned and pressed. The lady behind the counter said it was not as heavy as the last gentleman's kilt they had cleaned, so was it a kilt or a skirt. Perhaps I looked a bit annoyed because she quickly added. "Gentlemen's kilts d...

[It certainly isn't a bad state of affairs if the data is representative of reality, but I also suspect the results are skewed because kilts make up an extremely small portion of the responses. I often see people wearing them in person - there were a good number of kilt wearing males at Sidmouth fol...

Both of these threads are exactly the sort of discussion that Skirt Cafe exists for. I am definitely a Screwdriver. 75 and more years ago it was still quite common, even in England, for boys of the middle classes to wear kilts on occasion. I did quite frequently. But I would have been most reluctant...

Saw a man in a kilt today in Ottawa. He was walking and I was driving so only a fleeting glimpse. Not as costume. Rest of the outfit was casual. I would have loved to stop but these 60km an hour roads and heavy traffic make that difficult. I was wearing my almost usual Sport Kilt. His looked like it...

What is the policy of posting picture of a total stranger without their permission? Some people, even members, don't want their family or perhaps employers to know. Members sometimes leave out their own faces when they post.

I think if the curious man had been alone I would probably have told him about Skirt Craft. But his wife was right there and clearly they had been discussing it. My wife, who passed away ten years ago after almost fifty years together, was quite supportive of me wearing a kilt but I am certain she w...

I bought a pair of Dr Scholl's insoles for lower back pain and surprisingly they really worked for me. In a couple of days I was pain free. Now one month later I have them in every pair of shoes that I wear and back pain is a thing of the past. I am 83 and have arthritis.

If they just provided the waist measurements instead of that 'Find your size ' nonsense they want you to go through.

For most of my life I have been used to wearing a kilt for casual as well as formal occasions. My late wife rather liked it, but I knew her well enough to know for certain that a skirt would at the very least meet strong disapproval and likely make her less accepting of a kilt. So, though I envied h...

Back then, 75 years ago I think it was pretty standard for kilted little boys to wear girls knickers. Boys underwear was shapeless, saggy and invariably white. It was not made to be seen. Girls school knickers were better looking and closer fitting, also dark green or navy blue. I knew three other b...

To be serious, they should really come out and just have a male child model wearing this clothing and face the backlash with dignity.

150 years ago it would have been unusual to see a middle class boy under the age of five who was NOT wearing a dress.