I agree. Loose-fitting dresses are more comfortable to wear than skirts, since they don't need a restriction at the waist.Reaper_Man wrote:i like dresses and although i like skirts too i do tend to prefer dresses because they hang from the shoulders and thus create no restriction around the waist area, as a guy i obviously don't have the hips (like women have) to hold up skirts too well and thus have to rely on either belts or elasticated waists on skirts, a dress just flows nicely from the shoulders.crfriend wrote:What evolved into the modern "dress" -- which really is strictly speaking a women's garment now (as they tend to be tailored for bodies that guys don't have -- no longer works well on guys,howardfh wrote:Wonder how many on here prefer a dress/robe (call it what you like) over a skirt, either looking at one or wearing one?
to some extent crfriend is correct about dresses being tailored for womens bodies and thus don't work well on guys, this however is not entirely correct as there are many dresses that also work well on men it just depends upon the style and design of the dress, the main problem with dresses is that they tend to have a high waist that are fine for women but useless on a guy but drop waists can work fine on guys depending upon the guys build .... of course there are long straight / flowy dresses that have no waist at all which work great for both men and women
Many "modern" dresses nowadays are designed to tightly fit the "hour-glass" figure of the female body, so would look weird on men. However, a more loose-fitting dress/tunic would look just fine on a man. For example, the tunic many Arab men wear or the tunic/dress Chinese men have worn till early 20th century