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Plenty of places where you can find a simpler denim skirt for much less.
Ah, but what happens if one happens to absolutely and completely detest denim?
Perhaps denim is not the right word. I'm thinking of the thick cotton cloth that is often used for trousers/jeans/shorts and for skirts, and which keeps its shape, as opposed to the thin cotton used for shirts ... and skirts.
It's the material I like best for the warmer season.
It seems that men openly wearing skirts in the UK, (other than transvestites, stage acts etc.), are VERY, VERY rare.
I could make some seemingly obvious deductions from that, but, I'm sure they would be very unpopular on a site like this so I think we should all draw our own conclusions.
Derek Plattis wrote:It seems that men openly wearing skirts in the UK, (other than transvestites, stage acts etc.), are VERY, VERY rare.
What do you think guys?
Men in skirts very seldom wear a skirt in public. They wish they would. They talk about doing it on forums. They plan to do it. They drive off to do it. And they return home without having done it.
Am I totally mistaken? Please, be honest. Or eventually this Sunday wear your skirt in public. Let's tomorrow have a response from all 800 members on this forum: "I made it, I did. I'll do it again."
[Men in skirts very seldom wear a skirt in public. They wish they would. They talk about doing it on forums. They plan to do it. They drive off to do it. And they return home without having done it.
Am I totally mistaken? Please, be honest. Or eventually this Sunday wear your skirt in public. Let's tomorrow have a response from all 800 members on this forum: "I made it, I did. I'll do it again."]
Essentially I believe your statement is correct because when I first started to wear the skirt I did it behind closed doors at home.
I broke the ice with wearing the Kilt. From there is was an easy transition to wearing the skirt and made even easier when I wore a
skort. The shorter the skirted apron and the use of denin fabric just makes the skirt wearing invisible.
Also true I have not met any skirted men out and about in public. Kilts yes - skirts & skorts no.
With the largest retail shopping mall in the USA nearby; 'The Mall Of America'; I frequent it quite often I have not encountered many skirted
folks of both sides of the asile. All todays marketing sales are directed to "Pants; Pants and more Damn Pants"!
Oh there are skirts there but you don't see them walking out the doors like pants, leggings, jeggings, capris, and shorts etc.
With back to school being the main theme at this time of the year there are a great deal more skirts to be seen but these are the tartan
uniform skirts worn by the girls going to private or parochial schools. Unlike the boys in the UK none of the males in the USA are offering
a real challenge to a skirted dress code. The only challenges are the baggy crotch hanging underwear showing so called fashionable wear
for young men. Really dumb to go in that direction when a bigger show of fashion impact could be made by wearing a/the kilted skirt !
So this next generation of young folks are not going to be contributing much to the men in skirts movement at least as far as the USA is
concerned.
Well that is one -1- of the 800 you are expecting to reply.
"Kilt-Or-Skirt-On"
rma
"YES SKIRTING MATTERS"!
"Kilt-On" -or- as the case may be "Skirt-On" !
WHY ?
Isn't wearing a kilt enough?
Well a skirt will do in a pinch!
Make mine short and don't you dare think of pinching there !
GerdG wrote:
Men in skirts very seldom wear a skirt in public. They wish they would. They talk about doing it on forums. They plan to do it. They drive off to do it. And they return home without having done it.
Am I totally mistaken? Please, be honest. Or eventually this Sunday wear your skirt in public. Let's tomorrow have a response from all 800 members on this forum: "I made it, I did. I'll do it again."
Greg
I have just returned from eight days visiting my brother and friends in the State of Washington. Four of those days were skirted full time. Three days in the cargo skirt pictured in the pics & looks section here and one day in a knee length fleece skirt I had made for me. Three of those days were spent driving to my friends from my brother's house (five hours each way) and around my friends property including a long walk around their development. The drive to their house included a stop for gasoline in Spokane Wa. My friends had seen me skirted last year, so it was no big deal to them. Though this year the wife half of the couple called what I was wearing a skirt. No mention had been made in the past.
I drove back from my friends home to my brother's in a skirt and he had his first exposure to me in a skirt. No comment was made. This morning I dressed in my cargo skirt for the drive back to San Francisco. No comment from my brother again and no comments at the gas station where I filled my car, the two highway rest stops I used or the restaurant where I stopped for dinner.
All in all, it was a good week.
Stuart Gallion
No reason to hide my full name
Back in my skirts in San Francisco
I think it very likely that the majority of the 800 members here are "at-home-only" skirt wearers. Yes, it is a pity they don't venture outdoors. But the fact they have looked in on the forum shows they are interested in doing so, and reading about the bolder everyday wearers should certainly help them over that enormous first step. Greg and Carl and (can't remember all the names) and I are regularly debifurcated and comfortable with ourselves that way. Others will learn with our encouragement.
Martin (who has tried to re-register in his own name, bu nothing happened, so I'm still Couyalair here)
I have posted a few times in this thread about occasions when I have seen men out and about in the UK in skirts / kilts.
It is a rare day that I don't wear a skirt in public at some point though at present I will not wear them at work as I am on a short term contract and want to persuade them to make it permanent so rocking the boat in non-productive work ways is not on my list of smart moves. I have however worn skirts and kilts regularly when off the clock and working away from home so my skirt wearing habits are well known to those I work with.
Have fun,
Ian.
Do not argue with idiots; they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Cogito ergo sum - Descartes
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
I wear skirts vastly more than I wear trousers these days, and that includes to work. I go pretty much anywhere and everywhere so attired -- even sailing -- and it is virtually always a non-event. It's usually only if I am wearing something particularly flashy that I'll get any sort of comment at all, and when I do get comments they're almost unversally positive.
Really, the only thing that is stopping us is ourselves. I'd not posit that the situation is as desperate or as dire as Greg postulates, for if it were we're a pretty sad bunch. Of the folks who are most active on the forum, I'd be willing to bet that most of them have fairly extensive experience "out and about" in public. But, Greg's challenge stands: If you're not dressed for the day yet, put on a skirt (or change into one), or wear a skirt tomorrow. Just remember that the supply of tomorrows is finite.
Retrocomputing -- It's not just a job, it's an adventure!
I'm another one from the UK who wears skirts everyday including at work and when out and about town shopping etc. Over the last year, I would guess that I have only worn trousers about 10 times and that was only by necessity (e.g. car maintenance, up a ladder etc).
It takes a lot of guts to do it at first, and while obviously I get a few looks, very few people have made any comments. The only bad comments I got once was some shouts from a group of 'chavvy' teenagers - but that is what you expect from the UK's lowlife underclass, so I just ignored them.
As others have said before though, I have still yet to see any other men wearing a skirt in public other than myself...
I'm on it. I went out today to run an errand in a skirt. No comments even though I knew that the people that saw me knew that I was wearing a skirt. No big deal. I'm going to see a doctor tomorrow for a blood test checking for prostate cancer. I will be going skirted.
On a side note, the skirt I am wearing in the attached picture is a blue cargo skirt. I have another just like it in a tan colour. When I bought them they had a slit in the front that went to the knees. After wearing them I didn't like the slit but I wore them anyway but not that much. Yesterday my wife was doing a repair job on a pair of her jeans so I got brave and asked her if she would sew up the slits in the front of my 2 cargo skirts. To my amazement she agreed. Not only that but when she was finishing up the last one she reminded me that I have a knee length black skirt that has a slit in the back that goes too high and volunteered to fix it for me too. This from the woman that didn't want to be seen with me in public while I am skirted. Another small battle won??? I hope so!!
George
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GerdG wrote:Men in skirts very seldom wear a skirt in public. They wish they would. They talk about doing it on forums. They plan to do it. They drive off to do it. And they return home without having done it.
Am I totally mistaken? Please, be honest. Or eventually this Sunday wear your skirt in public. Let's tomorrow have a response from all 800 members on this forum: "I made it, I did. I'll do it again."
Greg
Hey Greg, I did it and I'll do it again. Details to follow!
over the last few months I have started to go public and am now regularly wearing skirts out and about. Just yesterday I went with my wife and mum to several places all over town skirted. Most people don't notice' but the ones that did notice didn't comment or care at all, I didn't get any weird looks and to be honest it was no different than if I was wearing shorts. Each day now I am becoming more confident to the point where it is becoming normal and I don't even think of it, just enjoying the comfort and freedom. I was just thinking yesterday that the fear is all in our heads, once you start going out in public regularly and you notice people day by day not caring or noticing you realise that there was never a problem in the first place, just fears that we create in our minds ourself. Now I have no hesitation going skirted, as long as I am wearing the right skirt and look good and masculine I have no problems.
Haven't donned trousers for the past year or so, except for those times when I have to meet with my sister's ex-husband at the child exchange point, and a few times when I've been working on projects. At the moment, I have no shorts or long pants - shorts finally wore out, so I chucked'em. The past 3 days or so, my family hasn't complained about my leaving/returning from/to the house while skirted, so I'm in no real rush to replace them.
