Where did you first get the idea to wear a skirt?

General discussion of skirt and kilt-based fashion for men, and stuff that goes with skirts and kilts.
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Re: Where did you first get the idea to wear a skirt?

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weeladdie18 wrote:The Question for Moon is which style of clothes am I trying to wear and which style
is traditionally acceptable for a man to wear ?
Caultron answered this question best:
Caultron wrote:I'd say the answer to both questions is, "Whatever you want."
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I must say that I do like the following sentiment. It's been a big part of the way I've lived my life so far - and I still look pretty good for a bloke in his mid-50s.
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Perhaps we are lucky to wear what we want as we have no guide lines ....I will say again a mix of a traditional male sports jacket or
Scottish Tweed Argyle Kilt jacket and any variation on a summer skirt is successful and practical for the warmer weather.

This is presumably a mix of my interest in the Scottish Highland Dress and the lassies in their summer skirts.

The actual variation in summer temperature and brightness of the sun affects my choice.......a different skirt for every consecutive day.

On cooler days two skirts can be worn with a shorter skirt worn over a longer skirt...............

I may try on two or three skirts before making my final choice for the day. I always wear a skirt when I am not involved with

"male work "...............weeladdie
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I loved reading all these stories. Thank you everyone for sharing.

For me it was similar to others where I was sharing a closet with my mom and my sister. We were poor and had a small place. I am a short thin person and I never felt attractive in any kind of male or masculine way. It was an impossibility as I was always being told I was so skinny and therefore unattractive. It made me feel I had to be attractive in another way and when I wore a skirt I knew what that was and how I felt afterwards. I have chased it for years and years and I’m still figuring it out.
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I have worn improvised denim skirts (from old bluejeans) for yardwork for years, but never thought about anything beyond that. But a little more than a year ago, I was in a fabric store to buy thread to mend some shorts and sew on some shirt buttons. I happened to come across the remnants bin, and there was a piece of burgundy-color knit, that just had such an interesting feel, I had to buy it. It was too small to do anything with but make a running/jogging skirt - so I did, hand-sewing to an elastic waistband. I'm only an occasional runner, on woodland trails, so not much public there.
I've always enjoyed learning new skills, and within a few months I bought a used sewing machine, and have since done a few more projects: a knee-length wrap skirt with ties at the waist, a 'proper' converted-jeans denim skirt, a stretch-corduroy straight skirt; several more projects are in various stages of cutting and sewing. I'm working on linings, and will be trying 'invisible' zipper, button-front, fly-front. Still finding interesting remnants: herringbone, twill, abstract prints, faux-suede.
Started wearing my handiwork doing errands around town as soon as I completed them.
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moonshadow wrote:All,

1) The fact that often times men of antiquity are depicted donning some mighty cool robes, tunics, etc. Some of the images I've seen of the great wizards of the Middle Ages, along with the mighty Roman warriors, coupled with the elegance of the priestly ritual robes and caftans of religious people. The swish of the Klingon's robes as they had their grand meetings in TNG. Bad ass, and yet, very elegant all the same. Trousers on the other hand seemed so bland and boring, utilitarian and such. Trousers are what you wear when you're plugging away on an assembly line somewhere, or digging ditches. The robes are what you wore when you were in the presence of something great, like God, or high class society.
Science fiction/fantasy hints of a latent acceptance of men in robes. (An acceptance probably due to the historical garb of clergy). At least in imagination. Kilts, which have made rare appearances in science fiction/fantasy, are probably the only other exception to the Trousers Tyranny in those genres.

Yeah, robes and kilts are the only open ended garments that Western Civilization will even imagine as mens wear.
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I was interested in biblical robes, clerical robes and Roman and Greek Classical attire. However the practicality of this style of dress
was not seen out on the street and so it never became a reality.

Eventually I found Kilt wearers and the concept of Kilt wearing became a reality....However considerable research had to be carried out
to establish how the Traditional Kilt should be worn correctly.

Since I have moved I might only see one Kilt wearer in a year.......I am now a regular skirt wearer as a "man wearing a skirt "
However until this recent warm weather I rarely saw a lassie wearing a skirt.

However my style of skirt wearing is maintained by wearing skirts which are not the latest female fashion and I rarely see another man
wearing a skirt. To many this might defuse the concept of the "man in skirts..." .....carry on skirting ....weeladdie......
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The first feminine thing I did was wear a pair of pantyhose my senior year in high school. We had a football game and the weather forecast was to be around 5°F for the game. This was before men wore thermal tights and other than baggy long johns there wasn't many options. My mother suggested that I wear the pantyhose. Thne in my sophomore year in college I meet a crazy sexual girl that introduced me to wearing high heels. We wore the same size so I didn't have to go buy anything as she maybe had 50 pairs or more. We would dance, she liked to slow dance when I was wearing high heels. :oops: We went to a costume party at a friends house months later and I dressed dressed as Cher and she was Sonny. She even found an old pair of men's platform shoes to wear. It was my first time out in a pair of black 4" high heels in front of anyone else but her. I was also wearing a long black dress with a full slit up the side to the hip and a long black wig. All the girls complimented me on how nice my legs looked in high heels and that I could walk better than some of them. I just said I was a natural athlete and could do just about anything well. I didn't want to tell them that I had danced with my girlfriend every night in high heels for months. The guys later gave me some grief but to them it was just a costume. The most I got out of that evening (party) was the newfound freedom and the air that the dress allowed to flow around my body. I felt so free. So now I was hooked on high heels and the new freedom or openness a dress or skirt allows. Our careers took my girlfriend and I in different directions and later I met my first wife. She wanted nothing to do with me wearing high heels and skirts. So skirts and heels got suppressed for decades. After her passing I remarried to my current wife. It was with her and with her encouragement that lead me to what I am or wear today.
I was told I have balls for wearing skirts! My reply? "That's because balls this big won't fit in pants!"

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Very erudite, Mark. Reads like a posting under 'Personal Stories' column.

Very interesting about the dancing. The story goes that Ginger Rogers could dance every step Fred Astaire did, only backwards, and in heels!.

Mind you, your liking for very slim pencils must limit your dancing steps a bit, heels or no. Most people would opt for flared skirts for dancing in.

I have to say that my entire experience of using modest heels is posing for photographs. It's an entirely private fetish thing with me that I like to do this and I don't share it with anybody, not even MOH, so I post them here among like-minded blokes, glad that I found you all.

I came to skirt wearing very late...in my 40s, when I was weekly boarding in London for a couple of years pursuing some specialist letters. This expanded during my subsequent 8 years in Germany, where way ahead of the Internet they had a well-developed mail-order system and (e.g.) femme shoes in my canal-barge size were available, so also all sorts of things I wouldn't then have dreamt of buying over the counter.....tights &c.

Like lot of us I initially tried make-up &c but soon tired of that and just did the skirts thing. Dresses were and still are a total no-no on me, quite apart from the rear zip problem.

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I am wondering if Moonshaddow or any of our other friends have drawn any conclusions by reading all our posts on this thread

Perhaps we all just considered skirt wearing was an acceptable pastime at some point in our lives.....one of my conclusions is that this
type of thread does not show how many males " hide in the closet " to wear their skirts....we each seem to have become a perhaps rare
sighting in the the wild in our local region......weeladdie
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For me, it started at 8 years old. The girls in my elementary school were required to wear skirts with either knee socks or tights, even in cold weather. I was always fascinated that the girls wore very short skirts and showed their bare legs and thighs. Why were they required to attend school half-naked? And why couldn't I? And the teachers wore skirts and dresses too. Since the teachers let the girls get away with more and always yelled at the boys, I associated bare or stockinged legs with power. But at 8 years old, there was a picture in my textbook of a farmer from a warm climate place in another part of the world wearing a wrap type garment that looked like a skirt and I wondered why can't I dress like that? I felt like I was born into the wrong gender. (I know better now.) My sister was a little younger and had skirts with elastic waists that fit me. I used to sneak in her closet and borrow her skirts to try on in my room looking at the mirror. And my love for skirts was fully developed. But I didn't try going out in public until I was in my 20s. I eventually started wearing pantyhose and high heels but that's for another post.
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I think it was Caultron who spoke of the Boy Scout Kilt.....Nearly every Scottish Boy Scout wears his own Kilt as part of his Scout Uniform.
Perhaps it is just this part of the Boy Scout uniform which interests us young boys in wearing Kilts and similarly designed pleated skirts.

We then gain an interest in Scottish Soldiers in Kilts and so the die is cast deep in our minds.....This does not explain why we move away
from the wearing of the Kilt after many years and steer towards successfully wearing skirts .

Perhaps it is just a chance to wear a different style of garment as a male ......has anyone else moved in this direction ? ........ weeladdie
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I think that, for the adult male, the novelty of a skirt is intriguing. Finally, trying something different from the boring twin-tubes.
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As I have not tried wearing one of my really heavy traditional Scottish Kilts recently in this current heat wave ,I must try wearing one of my Kilts again.
I have found that it is sometimes too warm to wear a traditional jacket over a shirt with a heavy Kilt.
Certainly recently I have only been wearing turned down white ankle socks ,or no socks with my summer skirts.

I will admit that wearing a thin " below the Knee free skirt " does protect my legs from the heat of the sun.......I am spending more time standing
in the shade or taking my Siesta. ....weeladdie
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I think I got the idea to wear a skirt by accident. I saw pictures of men in kilts, and I thought it was great! I became obsessed with the idea of unbifurcated garments for men in general. I got a really nice kilt on eBay for a really good price. I really love my kilt, and it's so comfortable. Now I'm starting to look at other types of skirts. I'm getting something thinner and lighter because it's so hot and humid here now.

When I think about it I realize that I always hated wearing pants. When I was little, my mother had to force me to wear jeans. I hated that stiff scratchy denim rubbing against my legs, and they felt so hot and tight.

Now it seems that I have found an alternative. It's helped a lot to see pictures of skirted men and to be able to interact with them.
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