Ordinary men/boys in skirts

[skirtingtoday]

Here are a few of the recent tales of men/pupils/boys wearing skirts for one reason or another. It could be as a mechanism to get round a shorts ban or in support of colleagues and there is even one case at a friends funeral.

1 Luke “Sasha” Fleischman in Nov 2013 – in support of Sasha after his skirt was set on fire by an idiot because he preferred wearing skirts to trousers. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-new ... ar-dresses

2 Swedish train drivers June 2013 protesting against “no shorts to work” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22847008

3 Cardiff schoolboys in 2013 protesting against “no shorts to school” http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales ... es-5134447

4 Cambridge schoolboy in 2011 protesting against “no shorts to school” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ca ... e-13362586

5 Students in Turkey took to wearing skirts after girls were banned from wearing them (Sep 2013)(http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/male-s ... sCatID=341

6 Soldier wears yellow dress to his friends funeral http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... omise.html


What has happened since then? Almost certainly none of the above will continue wearing skirts (the shorts ban having been lifted in a few cases) with the exception of Sasha who does continue to wear them (but not even his school mates who are unlikely to wear them again)

Whatever - the sky didn't fall in, the world continued to turn and life carried on normally. Indeed, in all cases above and many more, there is wholehearted support from the public for men in skirts.

So the last question, why does it not become much more commonplace?

[Grok]

Perhaps because a protest is seen as simply a protest, and therefore tolerated?

[Caultron]

I don't think tolerance (or lack of same) by the public was a factor. More likely, the skirt-wearers probably never even considered wearing a skirt permanently. And the reason for that is that skirts simply aren't a mainstream style for men.

But had they kept on wearing skirts, I doubt anyone would have stopped them. The person with the greatest intolerance of wearing a skirt in public is usually yourself.

[crfriend]

The person with the greatest intolerance of wearing a skirt in public is usually yourself.

This rings profoundly true. We can wear skirts as a protest, or in support of something else. But to simply do it for the sake of doing it? Seemingly never. That's what's unfortunate.