The Man Skirt
The Man Skirt
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Re: The Man Skirt
We need to encourage these designers and let them know, there are many men who will wear a skirt.
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Re: The Man Skirt
For the pics :
<http://brieuc75.typepad.fr/soundtrackto ... owens.html>
It's good to see skirts for men on display, but I find skirts as long as these quite inappropriate for anything but sitting watching tv. It's quite impossible to move easily or fast with all that cloth flapping round your ankles.
And, as usual, the men look sullen and quite unattractive.
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<http://brieuc75.typepad.fr/soundtrackto ... owens.html>
It's good to see skirts for men on display, but I find skirts as long as these quite inappropriate for anything but sitting watching tv. It's quite impossible to move easily or fast with all that cloth flapping round your ankles.
And, as usual, the men look sullen and quite unattractive.
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Re: The Man Skirt
Thanks for the link, Martin, as Sapphire and I could not see the images because the T&G article linked them through a tracking site that I've blackholed locally for security reasons.couyalair wrote:For the pics :
http://brieuc75.typepad.fr/soundtracktomylife/2011/06/le-défilé-homme-printemps-été-2012-rick-owens.html
Of the looks involved, about the only one I found even remotely compelling was the all-white one ith a jacket and ruffled shirt under. Other commentary I have about the looks involved are that the unfastened rain-boots just look stupid (and can't be comfortable) and I have a viscerally negative reaction to the "skinhead look".
As far as the expressions on the models is concerned, I absolutely agree that the designer would do better by having his models show some expressivity instead of the "gorilla glare". Personally, I interpret the glare as overt hostility and react accordingly.
Long skirts can work quite well if they're well designed -- the ones on display above look more like sacks. I have no problems out and about on daily affairs in any of my floor-sweepers, and those even get mileage at work when the weather is cool enough.It's good to see skirts for men on display, but I find skirts as long as these quite inappropriate for anything but sitting watching tv. It's quite impossible to move easily or fast with all that cloth flapping round your ankles.
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Re: The Man Skirt
My take is that these looks are for the "fringe" fahion elements not for the "bloke in a skirt". However, fringe can become mainstream if it gets enough exposure and support. That can only be to our advantage in the long run. Personally, I didn't see anything which I would go out of my way to wear at any time. The expression on the models seems to convey a message, "I'm wearing a skirt, go on punk, make my day"
They certainly do not look happy or relaxed which is not conducive to trying to emulate the look.
Steve.
They certainly do not look happy or relaxed which is not conducive to trying to emulate the look.
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Fashion designers have tried the man skirt thing before, and have had absolutely no effect on mens' wardrobes.
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I think if the models are willowy and ravishing, they're not really dresses for men, but dresses for males who wish they were females. For instance, a man in Scotland or anywhere in a full kilt suit complete with Sgein Dhu(sp.) CANNOT look willowy or ravishing. Same goes for East Indian mahouts driving Elephants or Africans in full red dresses hunting for Lions with spears. These men look like men. They are not willowy or ravishing. They are men doing men's work in M.U.G.s as they have been doing it for thousands of years.But watching his models, who looked willowy and ravishing in their dresses,
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Re: The Man Skirt
Maybe, but the Rick Owens dresses and skirts, at least look like something that a regular man could wear on the high street, rather than eliciting a 'WTF?'
Most of the designs were masculine in nature and while some may be a little long for practicality, that's not what these fashions shows are about.
Most of the designs were masculine in nature and while some may be a little long for practicality, that's not what these fashions shows are about.
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Sgian dubh.Since1982 wrote:Sgein Dhu(sp.)
Personally, I'm getting annoyed with the insertion of "man" into perfectly good names for things. Why do we need mantights, manskirts and so on when the words are perfectly functional on their own. Our wives don't wear womantrousers, they just wear trousers.
I guess it's an insecurity thing. Men have lost their dominance and it's going to take a generation or two to feel confident without it.
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I'm just being smart here:
I don't posess a sgian Dubh to stick down my kilthose, but I have had the pleasure of contributing to the forward motion of 'our' Sgian Dubh', a lovely decorated four-place Traditional Skiff, which the Society keeps at its home at Port Fonty, near Reading. No doubt it will take part in Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee Thames Rally next year, and there will be competition for places on her.
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I don't posess a sgian Dubh to stick down my kilthose, but I have had the pleasure of contributing to the forward motion of 'our' Sgian Dubh', a lovely decorated four-place Traditional Skiff, which the Society keeps at its home at Port Fonty, near Reading. No doubt it will take part in Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee Thames Rally next year, and there will be competition for places on her.
Tom K.
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