age breakdown here

[boca]

While I have noticed that most of the members here are midaged, I have been wondering what the age breakdown was here (especially the lurkers who just read this site as I know a lot do!)
I am personally 19, have been here since I was 18, and have really liked it. I am all for men/boys of every age to wearing unbifurcated garments

[Since1982]

Even tho my member name is Since 1982, I've been wearing MUGs since I was in a documentary movie filmed in the Central Pacific Polynesian Islands in 1972 when I tried my first "sarong" type garment. I was the last in the film crew to try one but once I did, it was "WOWOW" and I started easing away from bifurcated garments from then on. In 1982 I started wearing actual skirts in my home most of the time. My sarongs had all worn out in the 10 years between. Only after finding and joining Tom's Cafe and realizing I wasn't alone out there and also wasn't the "freak" I was afraid I'd be treated as, did I actually try going out in public wearing them. Once I realized what a "non-event" twill or denim skirts were when worn by a man, I pared my trouser collection down to one pair of long denims, one pair of cut-off khakis and took the rest of my trousers and converted them to MUGs. That was the source of about 15 of my khaki and denim skirts.

As you can tell by those dates, I'm like a well aged whiskey. I'm, as of November 1st past, 65 years young. I'm also completely accepted in my town wearing plain black, brown, blue and Khaki colored straight skirts. I naturally progressed from wrap sarongs to straight skirts which feel very much like a wrapped sarong. So I've been nearly 100% skirted since 2004 when I started wearing them out in public. Nearly means except at Jury Duty where our female circuit court judge insists on trousers for men, but allows women to wear nearly anything they please. Obviously she's bigoted against men.:shake:

[Sashi]

Nearly means except at Jury Duty where our female circuit court judge insists on trousers for men, but allows women to wear nearly anything they please. Obviously she's bigoted against men.:shake:

Wow, that's bad

As for me, I'm 19 and have yet to go out skirted but am working on rectifying that. It'll be easier for me once I have a job, as I'll have more excuses to go into town and a larger source of funds as well. Speaking of which, I need to look into getting an application for the city's library system, which I can only do online. I better get that done before it gets too late.

[G.Shaw]

I'm 41.
Regardless of my skirt wearing desire I submit to the wishes of my wife (of which I agree on most points). My skirt wearing has become quite curtailed recently but only because I've been so busy putting food on the table, a roof over my familys' heads, and protecting my children from single-thinkers.

I must say WELCOME to those of you that are still in the exciting early years of your lives. Enjoy the freedom of 'self' while you can.

Greg

[iain]

G.Shaw, how many families do you have?? no wonder you're stressed--I find feeding just the one is hard enough!

[DrWu]

I'm 20 and happily wearing skirts whenever I feel like it, at least when I'm at my college (my dad doesn't approve, so I don't do it around my family.)

[cessna152towser]

I never had any desire to wear a kilt when I was younger. After two failed relationships with girls, I married my present wife when I was in my mid-thirties. She introduced me to kilts through Scottish country dancing but I never considered them for everyday wear until four years ago, at age of 51, when a leg injury kept me out of trousers for a few weeks in midwinter when it was too cold for shorts. I wore kilts every day for several weeks and found they were so comfortable and so well accepted that I continued to wear them fairly regularly. Gradually over the past four years my kilt collection has expanded to include some non-traditional styles and single colour kilts, and I now wear a kilt out and about most days.

[boca]

I started out wearing skirts over the summer (parents were a bit frazzed about it, but they eventually became okay with it). At the end of summer I invested in a Utilikilt (a bit steep with my own funds, but I am working a bit). Wearing that to school was a bit of a shock to some and a non-issue for most, and now I only get the occasional "nice skirt". I either say thanks or politely correct as "Kilt".

[ChristopherJ]

I must say WELCOME to those of you that are still in the exciting early years of your lives.

Try and relax a little. I'm 55 and I find life very exciting. It is a state of mind, rather than the passing of years, that determines how "old" you feel. Make a note of my signature below this post. Then maybe you'll feel like going out and dancing in the garden . . . :cheer:

[AMM]

I'm in my 50's. Always had the urge somewhere to wear a skirt, but it's only been recently, and with some examples, that I've had the courage to try it (though not yet around my kids or where they'd have to deal with the fallout.)

I tell myself:

I work hard, I pay my taxes, I do my best to do right and raise my kids right, all these years. I think I've earned the right to a harmless eccentricity.

The folks that won't accept me in a skirt weren't accepting me in trousers, anyway.

And it won't be long before I'm dead, anyway, so what am I saving all that "respectability" up for?

-- AMM

[binx]

As for me, I'm 19 and have yet to go out skirted but am working on rectifying that. It'll be easier for me once I have a job, as I'll have more excuses to go into town and a larger source of funds as well. Speaking of which, I need to look into getting an application for the city's library system, which I can only do online. I better get that done before it gets too late.

Approaching 19 plus 36. Ah, the library...a great place to skirt. Many places to go that are excuse-free: the mall, the grocery store, the parks, the big city, and bike paths. It could be harder once you get a job, as you'll be concerned about encountering a fellow employee or the boss. Go for it while you are still free!:cheer:

binx

[RichardA]

55 ....and rising

[knickerless]

I see from the Poll so far that most of us (like myself) are in their 50's. Perhaps it is because when we were in our teens all nearly all women wore skirts and we envied them doing so.

Nick

[PatJ]

Ah yes, in the early 1960's, women (girls) wore skirts that had quite a flair to the hem. Some call them circle skirts or half circle skirts. When the wind would catch them, there was quite a show, flash of leg, slip, and even a rare glimps of panties. Those were the good all days when men were men and women were glad of it.

Later in the 60's, mini skirts came in and although they showed a lot of leg, the wind never did catch them the same way and give us guys the show we longed to see.

Anyway, women (girls) lacked freedom of choice back then much like men (boys) lack freedom of choice now.

Sad state of affairs, if you ask me.

PatJ

PS: I'm approaching the end of my 50's

[bob striks]

This is a very interesting thread. It brought anyother interesting question to mind. At what age people started skirt wearing? maybe worded better then I just did. Anyway just a thought.