Breaking the Convention

General discussion of skirt and kilt-based fashion for men, and stuff that goes with skirts and kilts.
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Stu
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Breaking the Convention

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I came across this video. You might have seen it before, but I haven't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XDMh0H ... e=youtu.be

Quite interesting - and a similar narrative to David Walliam's book/film The Boy in the Dress.
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Nice one! Thanks for sharing. Hopefully the more exposure the better people will try to understand.
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I wonder if it was prompted by this?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/2 ... 40290.html
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Be nice if it was that simple to win over loved ones, eh?
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There was an article in today's Daily Mail about Ikea furniture that is so difficult to assemble that it causes marital strife ( much like our skirt wearing can ). Marriage counsellor Dr Jane Greer said the following "Underneath, every discussion is really about how important am I to you? How important is my comfort and happiness to you? If I want this couch { for us read skirt } and it's important to me, then why isn't it important enough to you?"

Of course it works both ways as MOH could say that her opposition is deep-seated and if her feelings are important to her then they should be important to me. I can visualise her argument now. I'm not saying that this is the answer but it does put a different slant on it which may or may not work.

Here's the link to the article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... maker.html
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That has been well known and joked about in the US. The joke is that the word Ikea means "We hope your marriage is stronger than our furniture."
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I wonder who pitched the story idea (Ikea/divorce) to the international media? The Wall Street Journal (US) had a story on the same subject Thursday the 23rd.
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Apparently it's not new information, so idk.
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