Skirt Cafe is an on-line community dedicated to exploring, promoting and advocating skirts and kilts as a fashion choice for men, formerly known as men in skirts. We do this in the context of men's fashion freedom --- an expansion of choices beyond those commonly available for men to include kilts, skirts and other garments. We recognize a diversity of styles our members feel comfortable wearing, and do not exclude any potential choices. Continuing dialog on gender is encouraged in the context of fashion freedom for men. See here for more details.
1) What's the big deal! It's just another clothing garment. Do we need a "Sock Cafe"?
2) They are all closet transvestites. They just don't know it!
3) A skirt on me looks 100% better than any I've seen on the cafe. I just don't want to appear negative.
4) I might loose my security clearance if the gov finds I really like wearing skirts.
5) If my wife/mom snoops over my shoulder while I'm posting and finds I like skirts, I will be embarrassed to explain my reasons.
My Best
6) I've got nothing to say!
1. Socks aren't an unusual attire for a man - a skirt is.
2. I'm certainly not a closet transvestite - I have definitely no desire to look like a woman. I know, I've tried it and rejected it.
3. I agree.
4. In theory it shouldn't make any difference as long as you're not secretive and subject to blackmail.
5. Why be embarrassed?
6. There is no answer to this one. Shy?
What brought this on?
I believe in offering every assistance short of actual help but then mainly just want to be left to be myself in all my difference and uniqueness.
Just because a man wears a skirt does NOT make him a TV or a CD. I'm certainly not!!!
I have been told that I have better legs than the women who commented on my skirt (and that was when wearing a denim mini) so I agree with your third point.
You will be able to find fora or blogs on "man-skirts", "red-heads" (or blondes) or train/aircraft spotters because thay are a rare phenomenon but you will not find anything on commonplace things such as "socks", "shirts", "trousers", "suits" etc.
Indeed it has been commented here before that when men-skirts become a common sight, this forum would cease to exist!
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" - Joseph Goebbels
mikel wrote:1) What's the big deal! It's just another clothing garment. Do we need a "Sock Cafe"?
2) They are all closet transvestites. They just don't know it!
3) A skirt on me looks 100% better than any I've seen on the cafe. I just don't want to appear negative.
4) I might loose my security clearance if the gov finds I really like wearing skirts.
5) If my wife/mom snoops over my shoulder while I'm posting and finds I like skirts, I will be embarrassed to explain my reasons.
My Best
6) I've got nothing to say!
Keeping my tongue in cheek to prevent gagging
1) This seems contradictory to your point 5.
2) No, they like skirts despite their usually being women's attire, and not because of it.
3) There's no accounting for taste, but of course we each prefer our own.
4) That could be spooky, but if you're open about your skirt-wearing and it doesn't expose yourself to blackmail, there might be much less of a problem than you think.
5) This seems contradictory to your point 1. But anyway, just tell them you're going to try wearing a skirt, to see what it's like, and then do it. Then the second time, when they ask about it, just say it's comfortable.
6) And yet you have said something, and started a discussion.
Courage, conviction, nerve, verve, dash, panache, guts, nuts, balls, gall, élan, stones, whatever. Get some and get skirted.
One could take a page from Stu Rasmussen, mayor of Silverton, Oregon as far as blackmailing is concerned.
He owns several businesses there. He has D cup breast implants, has his hair long, and wears dresses and heels. And he also identifies himself as a heterosexual male.
He likes to say that he has blackmail-proofed himself by being open.
The mayor is correct in that regard. If you are doing something unconventional right out in the open where the whole wide world can see you then blackmail becomes impossible; however, if you go to great lengths to cover up what you're doing and somebody nefarious finds out...
As far as long hair goes, that's kind of difficult to conceal, but it's accepted in most circles nowadays so isn't really going to cause much of a ruckus. A skirt, on the other hand...
I'm not so sure about the breast implants; if that's true then there's probably something else in play, but clothing is just that and can be removed or changed as the desire fits.
Retrocomputing -- It's not just a job, it's an adventure!
Now maybe I've got this wrong, but I thought the point of this thread was to invite all the lurkers to start saying something. A few light-hearted reasons why folk might choose to lurk are offered to get the ball rolling. But all us regulars should get off this thread unless we are responding to a new non-lurker.
So chat about not being black mailable, or whatever, should go elsewhere!
crfriend wrote:
I'm not so sure about the breast implants; if that's true then there's probably something else in play, but clothing is just that and can be removed or changed as the desire fits.
The idea of implanting foreign objects that may rupture in the chest makes me shudder. I have enough natural tissue there anyway.
Really interesting.
I guess I've been wearing my dresses and skirts long enough now that I no longer think there may be people who may think it odd for a man. The only thing I think odd is that other men don't percieve the many advantages of them.
I also look forward to the day when they are so normal that it becomes strange for there to be a Skirtcafe'. In the same way a Sockcafe' would be!
Sorry, just realised this thread is for "lurkers", but methinks they will continue to lurk and not appear!
