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While having breakfast at the local truck stop, one of my tablemates remarked on seeing a man, at a truck weigh station, get out of his truck to tend to some business. Seems he was wearing a dress. The report occasioned only very little comment from the other diners. One fellow (a farmer, not a truc...

I have my own issues when it comes to clothing, both trousers and skirts. You see, I had a colostomy a few years back and the stoma protrudes quite a bit, much more so than usual for such operations. Were I to wear a suit and tie, it would look like I was packing heat, so loose upper body clothing i...

I hadn't thought to report on this when I first saw it last year as it seemed to fall under the "Halloween" category, but maybe not. I attend a lot of sports games at the local high school here in rural South Dakota. Last year, at one of the girls' basketball games, several of the male stu...

Apologies for the second post in a row here, but it just now occurred to me that your article was not so much about "what wearing a skirt as a man means" as it is about "what wearing a skirt as a man does not mean". I suspect that what it actually means (in contrast to what it do...

Back in the late 1960s, when girls and women here in the U.S. first began participating in competitive sports (other than a few exceptional sports like tennis, golf), there was a common assumption that the girls were gay - lesbians. I don't think anyone makes that assumption any more in spite of a f...

Yes, compliments from other men are rare. Today, after eating lunch at La Patrona's in Huron, SD, as I was leaving the restaurant, a young man who was entering same said, "I like your dress". It was a sincerely expressed compliment and I thanked him for it. I was wearing my modern reproduc...

A couple of years ago, I moved from the "woke" state of Washington to the extremely "red" state of South Dakota. I had been advised / warned that I would find things difficult in S.D. because of the conservative politics. I wasn't worried and my experiences have borne that non-wo...

Here's part of my take on this. First, if you can pass perfectly (and I have known some who could), then use the women's room. Since by hypothesis, you can perfectly pass, no one is going to know unless you reveal it yourself. OTOH, I saw a young man in Redmond, WA public library coming out of the w...

Unless I'm much mistaken, the responses in this thread are extrapolating from a couple of individuals to stereotyping a huge group of people and *judging* them. Isn't that the type of behaviour that we are trying to avoid being on the receiving end of? Actually, I would assume that the responses in...

From the start, I just accepted that skirts don't have pockets. That's why women carry purses, right? My solution is that I purchased an I-Pad carrier. I don't have an I-Pad, but the accessory works very well to serve all my carry needs: wallet, phone, keys, pen, small writing pad, coin purse, and a...

Hello, everyone! I’ve loved skirts since I was 12 and I’ve worn them since I was 18. I’m here hoping to meet like minded people. Interests: computers, languages, making music, and try g out new things. So now there are at least 2 South Dakotans - me being the other one. I'm from central S.D., Huron...

They had their own reasons. For schoolgirls in my era, Mouse's and probably today, it was to make them fashionably and eye catchingly short. To accommodate the stoma Hayseed, have you considered loose fitting dresses. I have had major abdominal surgery which did not necessitate a stoma but in the p...

Mouse wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 3:50 pm I remember some of the girls at school, would use this technique to make the standard school skirt shorter...

They had their own reasons. In my case, it was a "medical necessity". Not to mention it saved a ton of work re-hemming the skirts!

I'm guessing most folks on this forum know what it means to roll a skirt. Just in case some don't, it means to "roll" the waist over and down so as to shorten the apparent length of the skirt. Why is this relevant? Well, for me, I have a bunch of straight, knee length skirts. Well, they we...

I'm not sure whether the "sighting" I saw yesterday at the public library counts or not. Anyway, an Hispanic man, about 30 y.o., came in wearing what I think is called a shirtdress, pink with small flower patterns on it. It extended down well past the waist to about mid-thigh or an inch or...