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by rivegauche
Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:36 am
Forum: In the News / Advocacy
Topic: MIni Dresses & Skirts for Men
Replies: 61
Views: 1405

Re: MIni Dresses & Skirts for Men

My mother wore trousers in the 1940s, before I came along. She grew up in a religious community and got a lot of criticism but she refused to be intimidated. Despite this I never saw my mother in trousers until I was in my twenties. Selling skirts to men can be a success. Top Man sold sarongs some y...
by rivegauche
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:25 pm
Forum: In the News / Advocacy
Topic: MIni Dresses & Skirts for Men
Replies: 61
Views: 1405

Re: MIni Dresses & Skirts for Men

There is more than one country in the modern west. it has never been unconstitutional for women to wear trousers in the UK though I understand it was illegal for women to wear trousers in Paris until very recently, the same as adultery is apparently still illegal in New York - some laws are not enfo...
by rivegauche
Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:26 pm
Forum: In the News / Advocacy
Topic: MIni Dresses & Skirts for Men
Replies: 61
Views: 1405

Re: MIni Dresses & Skirts for Men

Obviously the social side of skirt wearing has some way to go. I am old enough to remember when it was difficult to purchase skirts because you would rarely be able to try them on. That has changed beyond recognition in 30 years, I probably don't have another 30 to wait for it to become socially acc...
by rivegauche
Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:52 pm
Forum: In the News / Advocacy
Topic: MIni Dresses & Skirts for Men
Replies: 61
Views: 1405

Re: MIni Dresses & Skirts for Men

I think we are looking for problems here. Going into a shop and buying a skirt or a dress and trying it on first is completely straightforward in the UK at least. I can't see how marketing to men as well as women will change this. Personally I think we are already where we want to be. Retailers reco...
by rivegauche
Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: Freestyle Fashions
Topic: So my wife got me a handbag for Christmas….
Replies: 34
Views: 848

Re: So my wife got me a handbag for Christmas….

I use a cheap black messenger bag when wearing a skirt and presenting male. Everything goes in there - nothing in pockets in any jacket or the skirt if it has pockets. When doing the whole presenting as woman everything has to be leather and matching (but not necessarily the same colour) - handbag, ...
by rivegauche
Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:23 pm
Forum: In the News / Advocacy
Topic: Sir Garyson Perry is "just a man who likes to wear dresses"
Replies: 7
Views: 305

Re: Sir Garyson Perry is "just a man who likes to wear dresses"

His audience were only interested in what he had to say on the subject, not in what clothes he wore. For what it's worth, Sir Claire/Grayson Perry wouldn't really be welcome here or would his other credentials compensate? Maybe that's for the mods, but you inspired it. I for one would welcome him. ...
by rivegauche
Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:08 pm
Forum: In the News / Advocacy
Topic: Skirts, Pants, and Deuteronomy 22:5
Replies: 26
Views: 546

Re: Skirts, Pants, and Deuteronomy 22:5

Any possibility that the people quoting the bible can give the actual quote. I had to Google Galatians 3.28 as I don't own a bible. For the record here it is - you don't hear the God Squad spouting this one, funnily enough: 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is ...
by rivegauche
Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:56 pm
Forum: In the News / Advocacy
Topic: Skirts, Pants, and Deuteronomy 22:5
Replies: 26
Views: 546

Re: Skirts, Pants, and Deuteronomy 22:5

OK - I'm not throwing a wet blanked on this but, WHY is this subject being brought up again? This 'subject' has been hashed and re-hashed about 25 times, or more, already. This is something that needs to be put behind us - ASAP :!: We need to continue promoting skirts for men/Men In Skirts not brin...
by rivegauche
Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:48 am
Forum: In the News / Advocacy
Topic: Skirts, Pants, and Deuteronomy 22:5
Replies: 26
Views: 546

Re: Skirts, Pants, and Deuteronomy 22:5

That is an interesting and well-written article. I was raised in a Scottish community that described itself as Christian but was really much happier with the Old Testament than the New. It was a community where men wore kilts occasionally and some did all the time and there was never the slightest s...
by rivegauche
Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:08 am
Forum: Skirts and Kilts for Men
Topic: What have you discovered through wearing skirts and dresses?
Replies: 22
Views: 1217

Re: What have you discovered through wearing skirts and dresses?

I echo a lot of the stuff that has been said about fabrics and comfort. I too look better in skirts and dresses than in conventional menswear, I have also met some very interesting friends (all women) via wearing these clothes, including one of my now closest friends. Most of all I have learned that...
by rivegauche
Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:49 pm
Forum: In the News / Advocacy
Topic: Redbrick: The ‘Babygirlification’ of Men
Replies: 15
Views: 419

Re: Redbrick: The ‘Babygirlification’ of Men

I have never heard the word before but I have encountered the concept. I recall reading many years ago that male stars who attracted legions of teenage girl fans tended to look less masculine than most men because of their youth - lack of beard shadow and so on. This allowed them to attract young gi...
by rivegauche
Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: In the News / Advocacy
Topic: More gender neutral retail
Replies: 20
Views: 746

Re: More gender neutral retail

My Google searches revealed only the Oxford and Guildford branches outside London. A bit odd having more than one map of branches. Glad to hear there are more, not so much because I want to go there, but because so many shops are closing. I used to love the John Lewis shop in Aberdeen and Long Tall ...
by rivegauche
Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:13 pm
Forum: In the News / Advocacy
Topic: More gender neutral retail
Replies: 20
Views: 746

Re: More gender neutral retail

Urban outfitters have shops in every major UK city. My offspring buy clothes there. They are well overpriced and the target market seems to be teenage to mid 20s. Not for old giffers in skirts and dresses, like us. Every major UK city seems to be London, Oxford and Guildford. Do you wonder why thos...
by rivegauche
Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:53 pm
Forum: Freestyle Fashions
Topic: Let's never speak this word again
Replies: 66
Views: 2465

Re: Let's never speak this word again

My mother grew up in a very conservative community and was one of the first women to wear trousers there in the 1950's and she got a lot of criticism from the God Squad. In spite of this I didn't see her in any form of trousers until I was in my late teens. When I started wearing skirts and also pro...
by rivegauche
Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:22 pm
Forum: In the News / Advocacy
Topic: More gender neutral retail
Replies: 20
Views: 746

More gender neutral retail

This time it goes beyond trousers for women. Initially I thought just in America but I think Urban Outfitters also in UK.

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