The newsletter of the HEJ association has been published on the Issuu website: http://issuu.com/alsachti/docs/gazettee1
This is the first issue of the newsletter.
If you can not read French, this version has comments in English (but you have to to zoom in to make it readable): http://issuu.com/alsachti/docs/gazettee1-en
HEJ Newsletter
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An impressive looking first newsletter; congratulations!
I will sound one note of caution however; the "electronic magazine" format drives me nuts! I always find that the format gets in the way of the message and have pretty much given up reading any trade journals published like this. Can we not have a simple HTML version, it's less resource hungry, works better on lower resolution screens on small tablets and netbook type PCs and I would not be forced to wrestle with the document in order to read it. (It would also be easy to point Google translator at it and get a usable translation with rather less effort from your end).
Sorry, this post has come over as rather negative; it should not. As I said it is a very impressive first news letter.
Have fun,
Ian.
I will sound one note of caution however; the "electronic magazine" format drives me nuts! I always find that the format gets in the way of the message and have pretty much given up reading any trade journals published like this. Can we not have a simple HTML version, it's less resource hungry, works better on lower resolution screens on small tablets and netbook type PCs and I would not be forced to wrestle with the document in order to read it. (It would also be easy to point Google translator at it and get a usable translation with rather less effort from your end).
Sorry, this post has come over as rather negative; it should not. As I said it is a very impressive first news letter.
Have fun,
Ian.
Do not argue with idiots; they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
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skirtingtoday
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Great to see a new venture - sorry but I didn't like the e-magazine format.
However, I have registered with the site and now have a downloaded pdf version of it. I don't think I can attach it here but if anyone wishes to send me a PM I will forward it to you
My French is not wonderful but I might even try and translate some of the articles here.
This is from page 2 of the magazine - some corrections have been made after the translation came back.
The skirt for man. You have forcing already heard of it speak, at least since the processions of Jean-Paul Gaultier in the Eighties. You saw without seeing it, on gladiators with the cinema, monks in procession or indonésiens in the street. And then there are the male skirts which belong to the folklore, like the kilt of Highlands or the fustanelle one of the Greek soldiers.
However for a few years, the male skirt has made its return, a return certainly timid, but quite real. One speaks about it in the press, of the forums and of the blogs dedicated to him, of the online shops (that) sell some, and H& M even proposed a model of it…
Creation in 2007 of our association, " HEJ" for " Men in jupe" registered voters in this movement of revival of the male skirt. Because it is a reality: at this beginning of 21st century, in occident, men started with putting on male skirts. Not mannequins or Scot, but of people like you and me. Not by dressing-up or to affirm an identity, but to assert the right to comfort and testamentary freedom. And HEJ is there to support them, stop the prejudices, and to promote at their sides the port of the skirt by the men in a male style.
We thus chose to devote ourselves to the male skirt. Some will say that it’s too (much?), of others that isn’t enough. However, out of any regional or cultural context specific, we plan no reason to restrict us with a style in particular, like the kilt or the Gothic skirt for example.
And with l' opposed, the looks openly female are likely less to allure the general public and would be likely to alienate us a certain number of carriers of skirt which are not recognized in this style. Of course, we respect those which would not share our approach and we remain open to all diversity that can offer the male skirt: not d' uniform at HEJ, nor of doctrinaire approach!
And today, almost 5 years after the creation of the association, we undertook the realization; a public gazette, with the ambition of you to propose of it in each six-month period a new number. With the wire of its pages, you will be able thus more on the skirt with the masculine, like HEJ and the actions which it implements. We hope for this manner of better doing to know our movement and, why not, be a source; inspiration for all those and those which impatiently await the return of the skirt for men!
However, I have registered with the site and now have a downloaded pdf version of it. I don't think I can attach it here but if anyone wishes to send me a PM I will forward it to you
My French is not wonderful but I might even try and translate some of the articles here.
This is from page 2 of the magazine - some corrections have been made after the translation came back.
The skirt for man. You have forcing already heard of it speak, at least since the processions of Jean-Paul Gaultier in the Eighties. You saw without seeing it, on gladiators with the cinema, monks in procession or indonésiens in the street. And then there are the male skirts which belong to the folklore, like the kilt of Highlands or the fustanelle one of the Greek soldiers.
However for a few years, the male skirt has made its return, a return certainly timid, but quite real. One speaks about it in the press, of the forums and of the blogs dedicated to him, of the online shops (that) sell some, and H& M even proposed a model of it…
Creation in 2007 of our association, " HEJ" for " Men in jupe" registered voters in this movement of revival of the male skirt. Because it is a reality: at this beginning of 21st century, in occident, men started with putting on male skirts. Not mannequins or Scot, but of people like you and me. Not by dressing-up or to affirm an identity, but to assert the right to comfort and testamentary freedom. And HEJ is there to support them, stop the prejudices, and to promote at their sides the port of the skirt by the men in a male style.
We thus chose to devote ourselves to the male skirt. Some will say that it’s too (much?), of others that isn’t enough. However, out of any regional or cultural context specific, we plan no reason to restrict us with a style in particular, like the kilt or the Gothic skirt for example.
And with l' opposed, the looks openly female are likely less to allure the general public and would be likely to alienate us a certain number of carriers of skirt which are not recognized in this style. Of course, we respect those which would not share our approach and we remain open to all diversity that can offer the male skirt: not d' uniform at HEJ, nor of doctrinaire approach!
And today, almost 5 years after the creation of the association, we undertook the realization; a public gazette, with the ambition of you to propose of it in each six-month period a new number. With the wire of its pages, you will be able thus more on the skirt with the masculine, like HEJ and the actions which it implements. We hope for this manner of better doing to know our movement and, why not, be a source; inspiration for all those and those which impatiently await the return of the skirt for men!
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" - Joseph Goebbels
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" - Joseph Goebbels
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The new issue is available : http://issuu.com/alsachti/docs/gazettee2
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Very impressive! Wish I could read French more easily.
T.
T.
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SkirtRevolution
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Great to hear from HEJ again. You guys are legends....Please keep fighting the good fight:)
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MrUtopia
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Two articles I found interesting. One was the idea of having an award for the best 'Men's skirt' promotion and the other was the article about the students doing research about 'the commercialization of menskirts'. Something like what I was trying to do. Maybe the fact that I did not invest 1,200,00 euro was the problem with my project.
It would be nice to see this Newsletter properly published in english.
Peter
It would be nice to see this Newsletter properly published in english.
Peter
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A good idea, Peter, such an Award.
"And the Award for the best Mens Skirt promotion goes to:"
All those men who wear their skirts and kilts with pride showing the world men have more options than pants.
Jan.
"And the Award for the best Mens Skirt promotion goes to:"
All those men who wear their skirts and kilts with pride showing the world men have more options than pants.
Jan.