Positive gentlemanblog article

[straightfairy]

http://gentlemenblog.com/men-wear-skirts/

I found this after searching for new articles on men's skirts and found it pleasingly positive.

[STEVIE]

S.F.
There is only one problem with this article. On this forum it will raise no comments, preaching to the converted springs to mind.
However, one thing is often ignored in pieces such as these and that is simple geography. There are many posts here which, at least, suggest that the writer would feel more comfortable in a skirt "elsewhere". Certainly, I would have included myself if I had been asked not so long ago.
For me, I have gone through the "local wringer" and been able to come out skirted.
I have a theory, and I can be corrected. The further North in the U.K. the generally less tolerated a skirted guy will become.
So far, I have been very lucky and not had any great problems but I have also been very very careful in choice of venue and timing.
For this purpose, in Scotland, the Kilt does not count as a skirt.
Steve.
P.S. How far "North" are you? P.M. if you prefer.

[straightfairy]

I'm in Derbyshire.
I'm tempted to agree with you on the 'northern' thing, but I also agree that a kilt tends to be more readily accepted.

[Milfmog]

Over the last six months I've been working almost exclusively in the Newcastle area with just a few brief visits to Basingstoke and Manchester. I don't wear skirts at work for a variety of reasons (not least moving machinery) but regularly do when off the clock. I honestly can't say that reaction to the skirts is any different in the three areas.

Have fun,


Ian.

[RichardA]

we keep going over the same ground "everybody wore a skirt 300 years ago" ......
To me I'm not bothered what people wear, I don't need a reason to wear a kilt or skirt I wear them as it pleases me.

[skirtyscot]

I'm in Derbyshire.

Call that the north? Southerner!

[straightfairy]

The further north you are, the further north the boundary between north and south moves.

When i say I'm from the Midlands, which is more accurate, people tend to assume Birmingham (which is wrong) and there's no way I'm from the south!

[skirtingtoday]

There is only one problem with this article. On this forum it will raise no comments, preaching to the converted springs to mind.

CORRECT! For all the fashion shows in recent years, it still hasn't put one man-skirt (or whatever you wish to call it) into the High St. Oh I know that H&M did have a few in their fashion show a year or two back but eventually they stated that they would not be selling man-skirts in the UK - and in the US, it did appear but only in the largest shops and apparently they sold out pretty quickly!

I have a theory, and I can be corrected. The further North in the U.K. the generally less tolerated a skirted guy will become.
So far, I have been very lucky and not had any great problems but I have also been very very careful in choice of venue and timing.
For this purpose, in Scotland, the Kilt does not count as a skirt.

The kilt is an acceptable form of skirt, almost anywhere, especially if in traditional tartan but I would agree, it does not count as a skirt here.
Maybe we should try somehow to plot sightings on a map rather than simply the "I am here" and skirted. Not sure how that will be set up. For starters, I have spotted two men in real skirts - not kilts - (one elderly and the other a student age) in Edinburgh where I come from. I know of a third in Polworth area of Edinburgh through another website forum but haven't seen him yet. Neither have I seen our own Veletron who regularly commutes to Edinburgh also skirted. So them with myself would be 5 skirted men in the capital. Any advance on that?

How many others locally have the forum members seen in their own area?