What is a hobby!

[DALederle]

Lot's of discusions have gone on about various hobbies>
But here's my one thought that nobody has talked about. Could wearing a skirt be viewed as a hobby too? If it's not something you do all the time, then would or could that be called a hobby. That is almost the way I think of my skirt/kilt wearing.
I don't try and wear my skirts or kilts during most of the winter, unless its very comfortable in the house and I am NOT going anywhere near the doorway. My skirts are all denim or twill and a fairly stong, heavy weight material. My kilts are one real wool and the rest synthetics. The ideal heat range for these garments is the 60s F. to lower 70s F. I was in a kilt yesterday when the temps crept up on me into the upper 80s and near 90s even inside my house. I changed from my kilt to a pair of very loose, shorts. The shorts were actually more comfortable in the heat.
So for me, you could say that wearing a skirt or a kilt is a hobby. It's something I do under certain conditions but not always.
So does that qualify as a hobby? It also something I spend "leisure" money on, not main budget funds. My clothes, because of my size, cost so much that I can't afford two wardrobes. I really don't know how all the cross dressers in the world pay for all their outfits, wigs, make-up, etc. I can't afford that much money.
At any rate, that my take take on. I wear a skirt as a hobby.

Dennis A. Lederle

Live Long and Perspire!

[Since1982]

You can call wearing a skirt a hobby if you like, I just consider a skirt one of the lower body garments in my closet. I have 2 pr of shorts, 2 pr of trousers, 2 robes, 1 djellaba 3 nightshirts and 29 skirts, plus about 45 shirts of various kinds.

[N0HEQ]

Does "NOT going anywhere near the doorway" imply that you are a "closet" skirt wearer? Around our house all of my clothes are happily taking a siesta within one of our closets. Cross-dressers are a puzzle to me since I can not understand how one of them could be happily married. My wife would not welcome competition from a fraudulent "woman wannabee" since she married a real man who just happens to wear skirts and dresses. Like the other gentleman's comments, my skirts and dresses are just the majority of the garments within our closets. A hobby? No, skirts and dresses are what I wear to avoid a jail sentence since us nudists aren't accepted in most public venues, at least not yet.

[STEVIE]

If it's not a full time occupation, it's a hobby. Realistically, for most of us here, being skirted, cannot be defined thus, so it's a hobby by most definitions.
Steve.

[Since1982]

N0HEQ, do you ever have anything nice to say about anyone, anytime, anywhere? My father had a statement he pounded into me for many years. "If you can't say something good, don't say anything at all" To everyone else, I apologise, It gets to me from time to time when someone is never upbeat or happy, but always downbeat or argumentative or picky about others.

[sapphire]

Skirt wearing as a hobby just does not resonate with me. To me, skirt wearing is a clothing choice and a fashion statement

[DALederle]

I'm wearing my favorite twill, tan, skit today. It's the first time in months that it looks like I'll be in this skirt all day. So many other factors have been interfering with my kilt/skirt wearing lately, that it's one reason I asked the question about doing it as a hobby. Personally I think many of the CD/TV make their form of skirt wearing into a hobby, wether they see it that way or not. And almost anyone who stays "in the closet" and is afraid to go out in public (which could be most of the male skirted men) has to do it as a part-time thing.
How I wish we could all just go out any time without fear of reprisals. Keep in mind that I almost lost my last job when my employer decided to object to my skirt wearing after finding out I was on line with my own web page. So many men are still afraid. But hobby or not I hope they all get out sometime soon in their skirt or kilts. And, of course, as MEN!

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Dennis A. Lederle
Live Long and Perspire!

[N0HEQ]

I just get irritated when dealing with all of the irrational statements concerning kilts. They are still expensive, ugly & uncomfortable. Most skirts are much lower priced, more attractive & more comfortable with a far greater variety of ways to adapt to various tasks & weather conditions. Men seem to embrace the kilt since they think it is a mans skirt whereas it is little more than a parade uniform, at least here in the USA. It is that sexual insecurity issue all over yet again. A man who is comfortable with his masculinity doesn't hesitate to to shop for a panty, a dress or a skirt in the women's departments in the same manner that women freely shop in the men's areas. My clothing choices have yet to lower my sperm count or interfere with my roles as a husband & a father. Men need to start acting like men with the ability to think for themselves rather than to allow the mass media to become a replacement for their own brains. Men need not be inferior to women. Help!

[crfriend]

I just get irritated when dealing with all of the irrational statements concerning kilts. They are still expensive, ugly & uncomfortable.

This sounds like one man's opinion.when it comes to kilts; others like the fit and the style, and the mass of fabric keeps one warm in less temperate climes than the US southwest. In short, for many, kilts represent a rather substantial "win".

Men seem to embrace the kilt since they think it is a mans skirt whereas it is little more than a parade uniform, at least here in the USA. It is that sexual insecurity issue all over yet again.

I'm not going to put my infamous and scratchy "Mod Hat" on this time, but we've beaten the topic of insecurity pretty well to death here in the past, haven't seem to have come to any meaningful conclusions, and it is this writer's opinion that it's time to let that poor horse get the sleep it so badly needs and could not get whilst it was still alive. Too, from personal experience, hammering on folks about perceived insecurity (of whatever ilk) does precious little other than to tick folks off and close their minds to possibilities. This is a forum to advocate for alternatives to trousers; in-your-face challenges to folks are not going to endear them to the idea.

[DALederle]

One reason that so many men gravitate towards kilts, as a skirted garment, is that it is a widely known and ACCEPTED garment that men can wear. That puts it one stap ahead of a regular skirt, that is still seen by most people as a women's garment.
I agree that this has been said here before and it's really a dead issue.
But if you've had bad experiences with the judgement that other people cast upon you, that can be a BIG factor in what you decide to wear and what you feel SAFE in wearing. As much as we all have personal feelings over what we wear, as indviduals everyone here should respect what the other person is going through.
Basically if you want to wear a kilt and that's all you feel comfortable with then that's what you should do for your own sake!
If you want to wear skirts the same thing applies. If that's what you feel comfortable in wearing, then that's what you should wear.
Each individual has to pick his own route through life and no one can or should tell him or her what to wear or what to like or dis-like.
I started as a skirt wearer because I couldn't afford the cost of a kilt. Later on, after I saved up money, I bought a few kilts as I went along and discovered there times and places I could freely be wearing a kilt and no one looked at me twice. As you can see in the picture above, most people DO notice me no matter what I do or wear.
The only way of us can learn what's best for us is to do just that. Wear what we want, when we want and see how the world around us reacts to us. And then make up our minds, as individuals, what each of us feels comfortable in doing.

Dennis A. Lederle
Live Long and Perspire!
p.s. I'd walk a mile in your shoes if I could but my feets are to big!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!