alsachti wrote:The lack of answers seems to indicate that there is not so much associations advocating the wearing of skirts for men.
I hope that I am wrong, but that confirms my own research on the internet.
In the USA, at least, you appear to be right. At least, if you are talking about groups that get together in person, or on-line groups that try to promote skirt-wearing.
The problem is that if you look at all the skirt/kilt-wearing men, you find that almost all are:
a. transvestites (that is, they want to look like women) or transgender (believe they
are women in some sense), or
b. kilt-wearers who are trying to prove that they
aren't in the previous category, or at least have no interest in "unbifurcated garments" other than kilts, or
c. men who are part of specific communities that are explicitly open to non-traditional dress and lifestyles, such as "Dead-heads", rainbow gatherings, Goth culture, and (in some parts of the USA) contra-dancers.
Transvestites (crossdressers) have a number of associations. You would have no trouble finding them.
Kilt-wearers mostly associate with one another in Scottish heritage groups; I'm not aware of active associations of wearers of non-traditional kilts, or people who wear or promote kilt-wearing that is
not associated with Scottish-ness. (Well, there's Utilikilts(tm)...)
People in specific communities will hang out with their community.
The few skirt-wearing men that are left are (a) very few and (b) have practically nothing in common except for wanting to wear unbifurcated garments that aren't kilts. You have only to look at SkirtCafe -- how many people actively participate? And we get people from all over the world. I live near New York City, with a population of maybe 15 million people, and I have not heard of a single other man in the area who regularly wears skirts in everyday life (other than crossdressers or transgendered people.) I know of maybe 4 or 5 within 400 km of me, and have met with 3 of them.
Even within SkirtCafe, you will notice that there is little agreement on what kind of skirts to wear. Some men here like to wear more "feminine" styles, others reject anything they see as feminine. We have had some really nasty arguments here in the past over what styles are acceptable, and each time, quite a few people leave. I think any real-life association to promote skirts for men would have the same problems, only worse.
alsachti wrote:There are, of course, associations of kilt wearers, but, I have been told, they do not necesserily have the same aims. However, some of them are maybe more open to the promotion of kilts and skirts as everyday clothes.
My experience is that most kilt-wearing groups are downright hostile to the idea of men wearing (non-kilt) skirts, or of saying that kilts are in any way like skirts.
(Popular saying: "Why do they call them 'kilts'? Because anyone who calls them 'skirts' gets 'kilt'.")
It's just thatI've been very busy these months. I found a new job,We are working on a project linked to the skirt for men. I will tell you more about it later.
Would you mind answering me as quickly as possible...
