Why do you Wear a Skirt/Kilt

[skirttron]

What do you think makes you feel strongly about wearing a skirt, kilt or other MUG?
Sometimes it's difficult to know one's own subconscious or to be honest with oneself.

For my own part, the best I can come up with is:
1) It makes me feel relaxed.
2) It gets me in touch with a softer, more playful, perhaps more intuitive, and yes, feminine side to my nature.
3) I can be a bit flamboyant and quite enjoy the extra attention it brings.

How about you?

[Eagle 95]

I'll tell ya why I don't wear em as often as I'd like to:
1) I only have one skirt, and it's too big even for me

I do think I'd be better off having more, and wearing em more often, though
1) Folks say I'm pretty unusual to begin with
2) It's a real good idea in this summer heat, that's for sure

[Gregg1100]

Hi,
Because it's me.
Greg

[Since1982]

I've always been a bit flamboyant. And as I meet more people that are out there "Doing it" as I do, publically, I'm finding myself tilting the limits and pushing the boundaries of what is masculine, and shoving the "narrow-minds" in the tookus, to say in a very BIG voice, HERE I AM, Skirted, comfortable,PUBLIC and what's most important to me, supported in the body areas I need firm support in, ie: hips, lower back, upper thighs.

As far as flamboyant is concerned, I've only ever been able to "find" occaisionally(sp) a colorful skirt in my size. They are nearly always black, brown, blue or gray or in some other way plain and ugly. Now that I've bought a Euro-Pro Computerized, self needle threading sewing machine I've gone crazy. Buying all kinds of cool colored cotton and other materials cloth off ebay and sewing my own skirts and shirts. The only thing I buy readymade anymore is underpants, slips and in the winter, tights. I just paid today for a 2 yard length of black cotton with multi-colored saltwater tropical fish all over it. I can't wait to make a cool skirt out of that. I'm gonna need a bigger house and more closets for my clothes. Unlike 30 years of 3 pairs of denim shorts, 10 blue T-shirts and an old pair of loafers. I wore that stuff so much people were starting to think of it as my uniform. LOL They used to refer to me when I was at work as "The Big Blue Man in the Little Blue Boat"..

[matman]

Three reasons:

1) Comfort-Airy

2) Comfort-Cool

3) Comfort-Unrestrited Movement

[Tripp49]

:cheer: I wear a skirt or kilt because I want to! I don't need a reason,I don't to justify,I wear them because I want to and they are comfortable.And anybody don't like it can just KISS MY A##. Oh well just thought I needed to say that.:ninjajig:

Tripp49:cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

[Departed Member]

What do you think makes you feel strongly about wearing a skirt, kilt or other MUG? Sometimes it's difficult to know one's own subconscious or to be honest with oneself.

For my own part, the best I can come up with is:
1) It makes me feel relaxed.
2) It gets me in touch with a softer, more playful, perhaps more intuitive, and yes, feminine side to my nature.
3) I can be a bit flamboyant and quite enjoy the extra attention it brings.

How about you?

Cannot identify with any of those, I'm afraid!

So I'll have to make do with:
1) Freedom of movement
2) Cool & Comfortable, any time of the year
3) Healthier than tr*users, no rashes, abrasions or boils (yeugh!)

[Tripp49]

Hey Merlin, how about just because I want to. You are a MAN! You do not need to justify what you wear to people.:ninjajig:

Tripp49:cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

[Departed Member]

Hey Merlin, how about just because I want to. You are a MAN! You do not need to justify what you wear to people.:ninjajig:

Tripp49:cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

Yeah, fine, whatever! Just responding to the points the original post raised. I've never thought, "Oh, I'd like to wear a skirt, per se!" Not interested (& never have been) in being an attention seeker. (Oh, alright, I do enjoy the admiring glances from the ladies, when 'Kilt-Klad' ) However, I don't understand the 'feminine side' cr*p, in relation to wearing a skirt. From my perspective, they're just a more comfortable and practical garment (as long as they've got pockets!). :twocents:

[Bravehearts.us]

What do you think makes you feel strongly about wearing a skirt, kilt or other MUG?
Sometimes it's difficult to know one's own subconscious or to be honest with oneself.

For my own part, the best I can come up with is:
1) It makes me feel relaxed.
2) It gets me in touch with a softer, more playful, perhaps more intuitive, and yes, feminine side to my nature.
3) I can be a bit flamboyant and quite enjoy the extra attention it brings.

How about you?

I don’t feel any different about my skirts, kilts and smocks then I do about anything else I wear. I’m not male or female although my body is male. I’m just me with some gentler and some rougher ways. The skirt doesn’t make me feel anything. I may feel something when I’m wearing it but that’s me doing that to myself. A skirt, kilt, pants, etc. can’t MAKE you feel anything. I hate the attention most of the time. I look forward to the day when an UG is only another garment in my wardrobe, as far as society is concerned, but I don’t think I’ll live long enough to see that. I just don’t like standing out just because of a garment.
Lar

[Since1982]

I wear a skirt or kilt because I want to! I don't need a reason,I don't to justify,I wear them because I want to and they are comfortable.And anybody don't like it can just KISS MY A##. Oh well just thought I needed to say that.

Euuuuhhh spit spit spit ptui ptui....ah will pass on kissing any1's A##.

[Kilted_John]

Here, I find that skirts/kilts are a less slobbish way to dress, and they're more comfortable (at all times, even in the dead of winter), as well as less restrictive than trousers. When I ruined a pair of "fashion" jeans 6 months after buying them and only wearing them a total of two weeks cumulative time, I knew that I'd only buy jeans and shorts from a thrift store, and only for dirty work or for jobs at companies that weren't as enlightenened. Otherwise, I've been kilted/skirted all the time.

-J

[Since1982]

Here, I find that skirts/kilts are a less slobbish way to dress, and they're more comfortable (at all times, even in the dead of winter), as well as less restrictive than trousers.

ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!! That's the best definition of a skirt I think I've ever heard or seen. Even for someone overweight like me, in my Tr*****'s days, my profile looked like every beer gut, slobberlip, stumbling, left over from a drunk tank, Saturday night toughguy in the WORLD. Without the Tr*****'s, wearing a T-shirt on the outside of a straight mid-calf skirt, I, at least, had a pleasing shape and had started to actually CARE about how I looked. My diet, which I've lost about 83 pounds with since Feb. is a DIRECT result of how much nicer I look in a skirt or jumper. I stay CLEAN, NEAT, take care of my hair, keep my finger and toenails trimmed neatly. Overall, I now CARE about myself. Something I didn't much do for the last 40 years. I just wish deeply and fervently that I'd heard of a site like this and a man like Tom Manuel and found out I wasn't the ONLY MAN in the world that felt more comfortable in an Unbifurcated garment and could actually go outside my home wearing a skirt. Thank you up in HEAVEN, Tom!! Keep those wings clean and white, Tom... :whiteflag <<<< That's not a flag, its my old tr*****'s.

[AMM]

My reasons for wearing skirts:

1. I like the way skirts look, regardless of who wears them. (Of course, IMHO, some skirts look better than others. And some fit certain body types better than others....)
2. I like the way I feel in them. They make me more conscious of my body. Especially when I'm wearing a petticoat and/or slip or two, it feels like someone is caressing me. (I hope this isn't too risque' a comment for the Cafe'.)
3. They're fun. Especially full skirts, which you can make swing out if you twirl. Cf.: Zorro's cape. I mean, how much can you do with pants?
4. They're less restrictive of my body. Pants are like a straight-jacket, even when dry, and they're much worse when sweaty, or soaked with rain....
5. Skirts are better ventilated. That's an important consideration this time of year. And if you're still not cool enough, you can flap them around.
6. They make me more conscious of how I look. If you're wearing jeans, or any other male "casual" attire, you're supposed to look like you put on the first things that came out of your drawer. But even a casual skirt outfit requires a fair amount of care. If you don't, you don't look casual, or even hip-hop stylish, you just look like Frankenstein's monster.
7. It's easy to make them visually interesting. And since they're not hard to make, you can exercise your own creativity. One skirt I'm planning to make (when it gets cool enough to sew anything ) is a tiered skirt with every tier a different color. And I've got lots of other ideas. If I did it in pants, I'd look like a clown.
8. It gets people (women, I hope!) thinking about what's under the skirt. As the comment on the Utilikilt site says, "Access, access, access...."
9. It's a great conversation starter. Women will come up and talk to me about it. And the compliments don't hurt either.

-- AMM

[crfriend]

To cop a line from the movie "Caddyshack", spoken by my namesake therein, "We can do that. We don't even need a reason." 'Nuff said.