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I started wearing a fedora in the 1980s when I was a student. My hat-wearing declined for a long time because it's hard to pair a kilt with a hat (other than traditional Scottish hats, which I hate). Now I am hoping to experiment more with hats and skirts.

Stu wrote: ↑Tue Sep 09, 2025 4:27 pm Looks great - I love denim and corduroy.

Skirt is a tad too short for my tastes - I like knee length of a bit below.

Oddly, I'd prefer a shorter skirt (and wear tights).

I would prefer a lot less body hair, but that is a topic on which I have to defer to Mrs Bookworm.

I am glad that I have developed the courage to wear things that I like. I still slightly envy younger people who can get away with things that at age sixty-mumble I can't. The one thing that I would like an opportunity to wear (but can't imagine it happening) is a proper off-the-shoulder, full-skirt...

Hi. Nice to hear from you. I have spent some time in central Maryland, and visited every county. That was before I had skirts, but I wore a kilt a good deal. I had to research my ancestry to deal with the flood of enquiries about Scottish and Irish roots (which was odd to me, as few people in the UK...

Some comments chime with me too. In my 20s, if had had the slightest chance of passing, I might have experimented with cross-dressing, but it wasn't a credible option. (I'm too introverted and too bad an actor to manage the drama of drag.) Currently I feel too old and too married to claim the label ...

I remember the feeling of wearing a kilt, and later a skirt, for the first time. It is not always easy to disentangle euphoria from arousal, but I would say that my aim has been to normalize skirts for myself (as I already have done for kilts), so that it is just a comfortable way of dressing that c...

Someone called at me out of a car "You're wearing a skirt, mate", which was hardly news to me. Unfortunately I was just crossing the road and couldn't hear his follow-up comment, so I don't know whether it was positive or negative.

When first wearing a skirt, I reckoned that half the people who noticed the skirt didn't notice that I was a man, and half the people who noticed that I was a man didn't notice the skirt. If you stick to the drab male colour scheme, you can often avoid notice.

I'm glad you heard him live. As a teenager I was more into Deep Purple than Black Sabbath (and more into prog rock than metal), but I thought Ozzy was one of the great showmen of the age.

As far as I’m concerned a kilt counts as trousers. I feel a bit like that too. On holiday in Scotland, a kilt feels a very 'safe' option, even though I haven't seen anyone else wearing one (outside the 'tourist zone' in Edinburgh). Really it's a skirt, but it doesn't challenge gender perception at ...

I have skirts at everything between fairly short denim minis down to floor length, and I really couldn't say I had a favourite length. It depends on how I feel, and what the temperature is!

Having accidentally timed a short break in Paris for the exact days when the temperature climbed to record levels, I was happy to spend one day of our visit in an ankle-length, olive-green Incerun skirt. As one would expect in Paris, there were a lot of very well-dressed people, including some men's...

I have the necessary chest mounds to fill out the chest area of my dresses. They are so comfortable, I wonder why more people, particularly women, don't wear them. I think you alluded to one of the reasons: women often wear dresses to accentuate their femininity, so dresses are often designed to em...

Just made my second venture out in a cropped T shirt, which although it was gender free in the ?1970s, now seems rather fem-gendered. The first time, I wore it over linen trousers, and got a long stare in Waitrose car park from an older guy. This time, I tried it with a long skirt, and got the kind ...