It seems to finally make sense

[phathack]

Skirts have a very few practical niche applications.
Basically, for a few outdoor activity and/or athletic uses.

Skirts are great when sitting at a work bench, fiddling with small parts.
If or when you drop one, it is caught by your skirt - not the floor

Uncle Al

That happened today. I was soldering on a new PCB and knocked a tray of 0603 surface mount resistors over and some wound up caught by my skirt. I know some wound up on the floor, no way I'll find them, just hope the RoboVac finds them this evening when it runs.

[robehickman]

Skirts have a very few practical niche applications.
Basically, for a few outdoor activity and/or athletic uses.

Skirts are great when sitting at a work bench, fiddling with small parts.
If or when you drop one, it is caught by your skirt - not the floor

Uncle Al

Skirts / aprons would be great for that.

[Mouse]

Skirts are great when sitting at a work bench, fiddling with small parts.
If or when you drop one, it is caught by your skirt - not the floor

Skirts / aprons would be great for that.

See, that's why I wear a skirts on site. Yesterday I dropped 4 small screws at the same time and I found two in my skirt and two on the floor!

[Mouse]

Despite years and years of countless people trying to normalize skirts for men, it just will not gain traction, and I think I finally understand why.

I think in an odd way, the lady painter on the work site and the comments by members answers the question. For a vast majority of life, trousers make a lot of sense. Hence why men gravitated to them, and recently so have women. On a warm summers day, a short skirt may be the best thing, other than that, trousers do a great job.

So those of us that wear skirts, are bucking the direction of travel and therefore there is never going to be a big male switch from trousers to skirts. The best we can ever get to, is an understanding the if you want to wear a skirt, you can, just as women have that choice.

When I was a kid, I knew that guys in Scotland had this skirt they could wear called a kilt. So, I was so disappointed when we went to Scotland on holiday and found no guys wearing kilts. Here was a country where men could wear skirts and they were not taking up the option!

[Grok]

Skirts are great when sitting at a work bench, fiddling with small parts.
If or when you drop one, it is caught by your skirt - not the floor
Uncle Al

Good point

[new2skirts]

Despite years and years of countless people trying to normalize skirts for men, it just will not gain traction, and I think I finally understand why.

I think in an odd way, the lady painter on the work site and the comments by members answers the question. For a vast majority of life, trousers make a lot of sense. Hence why men gravitated to them, and recently so have women. On a warm summers day, a short skirt may be the best thing, other than that, trousers do a great job.

So those of us that wear skirts, are bucking the direction of travel and therefore there is never going to be a big male switch from trousers to skirts. The best we can ever get to, is an understanding the if you want to wear a skirt, you can, just as women have that choice.

When I was a kid, I knew that guys in Scotland had this skirt they could wear called a kilt. So, I was so disappointed when we went to Scotland on holiday and found no guys wearing kilts. Here was a country where men could wear skirts and they were not taking up the option!

Kilts are generally very expensive and saved for best occasions, ie weddings, Christmas dinners / concerts and balls, football matches... more guys are wearing kilts to award ceremonies for their workplaces etc... in the tourist areas around Edinburgh you'll see more kilts, but worn by tourists. It's the equivalent uf a tuxedo. Ironically, you'll see more kilts in The South around London

[Grok]

So those of us that wear skirts, are bucking the direction of travel and therefore there is never going to be a big male switch from trousers to skirts. The best we can ever get to, is an understanding the if you want to wear a skirt, you can, just as women have that choice.

I suspect that is right.

[Grok]

There are very good reasons in niche cases like for folk dance as I have noted many times already, and probably others besides that. Promote skirts in cases where skirts actually make sense, because the fact that women have mostly dropped them says to me that they are a garment with limited practical application.

I imagine that eventually-ultimately-a small minority of men, and a small minority of women, will wear skirts with any regularity.

[robehickman]

There are very good reasons in niche cases like for folk dance as I have noted many times already, and probably others besides that. Promote skirts in cases where skirts actually make sense, because the fact that women have mostly dropped them says to me that they are a garment with limited practical application.

I imagine that eventually-ultimately-a small minority of men, and a small minority of women, will wear skirts with any regularity.

Probably. I do wish more men would try wearing skirts / dresses in hot weather as they are so much cooler.

[Myopic Bookworm]

Ironically, you'll see more kilts in The South around London

I read in an old guide to Highland dress that if you see a man wearing a kilt south of Stirling, he must be an American! I once attended a reception in Hereford wearing a kilt (a plain one, as it happens), and chatted to a man who said he was Scottish and burbled about his family tartan, so I asked why he wasn't wearing it. He looked hastily around, and replied, in a shocked tone, "Not here!". But I have been conscious of being almost the only man in a kilt when travelling as far north as Mull.

I believe it used to be more usual for boys to wear kilts much of the time, as school or casual wear. (I once saw a whole troop of Scottish cub scouts in kilts outside the Natural History Museum in London.) In Victorian times, it was even widely worn in England: we have an old photograph of Wokingham Town Hall, and one of the figures in the foreground is clearly a boy in a kilt. It's perhaps quite recently that the association with weddings and such, and the considerable cost of a proper kilt, has pushed it into being treated mainly as formal wear only.

My Scottish father-in-law never wore a kilt, but that - we discovered - was because he had once been obliged to wear one when accompanying a famous and very patriotic Scottish naturalist on an expedition across the moors, and had found it physically uncomfortable, what with the rain, prickly bushes, midges, and all.

[Kirbstone]

MB, You mentioned 'Midges and all'.......

A niece married a Cameron some years back and I attended that wedding kilted, but it was in Manchester, well South of Hadrian's Wall. No midges.

We did however encounter veritable swarms of the horrid things, mid July on Skye, where they use the short Summer season to procreate, I assume. They effectively make sitting out on the terrace enjoying sundowners up there totally impossible. How they invented and wore kilts routinely there defies reason. Recommended outdoor attire for walks up there is a sort of bee-keepers' gear incorporating trews tied at the ankles over socks & a midge-proof netting headdress as well.

Tom

[mr seamstress]

The average woman complains about men showing their butt crack who wears pants. This is one practical part that happens when wearing pants. Only if women would appreciate men for not showing their butt crack by wearing skirts or dresses.

[Fred in Skirts]

The average woman complains about men showing their butt crack who wears pants. This is one practical part that happens when wearing pants. Only if women would appreciate men for not showing their butt crack by wearing skirts or dresses.

However I have never seen an average man complain about a woman who shows plenty of BOOB CRACK when wearing a low cut blouse or dress.

[mr seamstress]

However I have never seen an average man complain about a woman who shows plenty of BOOB CRACK when wearing a low cut blouse or dress.

You are comparing apples to oranges. Men design women clothes to show off woman's bust, including shear shirts for women to wear. These clothing designs are intentional for all practical purpose for women.
Today men doesn't care if they are being rude by showing off their butt crack. To solve that problem is simple to wear longer shirts (dress), buy waist high jeans (women's), or wear belt suspenders to keep pants on.

[STEVIE]

There is only one viable answer, FORTY TWO!
Nothing to do with skirts or clothes of any kind, just the "story telling" apes, better known as homo sapiens.
Steve.