Women wearing skirts

[Grok]

Noticed that not all women enjoy conforming with their Great Renunciation.

Not everybody wants to go through life wearing the most boring clothes in the world.

[Seb]

Noticed that not all women enjoy conforming with their Great Renunciation.

Not everybody wants to go through life wearing the most boring clothes in the world.

The follow up post was also worth a read.

[Mouse]

Thank you Grok and Seb for those two links.

While I think the writers motives and direction; looking at her other writings; are limiting for other women. The two pieces about dress/skirt wearing and giving up trousers are right down my street. As she has given up trousers and now lives in dresses/skirts, I too have given up trousers and now wear nothing but skirts and the odd dress, going on now for the past few years. I too have a simpler choice each morning, of which skirt to wear. Nice to read of another person making a similar choice in life.

[Barleymower]

Thanks also to Grok and Seb for the links.
And mouse for his take on the subject.

For me it's tough reading. Yes I now do as I please, I own lots of skirts and a couple of dresses. I wear the skirts practically every day.

I do have a problem though. At no point in either piece does the writer acknoledge that anyone other that women wpuld be interested in skirts and dresses. They are symbols of femininity. As such only women can take part in the dress up game. Men are still excluded.
Thanks for the trousers chaps but the skirts are still ours. That's why men don't wear skirts and until that attitude changes they never will.

[Grok]

I recall a comment I once came across, a woman's reaction to MIS-"I don't want men to stop being men!"

[Mouse]

I do have a problem though. At no point in either piece does the writer acknoledge that anyone other that women wpuld be interested in skirts and dresses. They are symbols of femininity. As such only women can take part in the dress up game. Men are still excluded.
Thanks for the trousers chaps but the skirts are still ours. That's why men don't wear skirts and until that attitude changes they never will.

The whole point of view for the site, where the articles are, is suspect from the angle you would wish. The Darling Academy (Faith & Femininity) is all about Christian family values and informing women how to become traditional wives.

Welcome to The Darling Academy! A lifestyle website and ministry for housewives, homemakers, and traditionalists. A place to embrace your love for home, and your role in it.

We have to read the pieces at the level of wearing clothes and how nice skirts are compared to trousers and leave it at that.

[Barleymower]

We have to read the pieces at the level of wearing clothes and how nice skirts are compared to trousers and leave it at that.

Very true, entertaining the thought of speaking to them and changing their approach would be pointless.

There is one unavoidable true(ism). Traditionally women wear skirts and dresses. Men dont. This needs to be challenged. It seems though, you can't challenge it without first tearing down traditional masculinty / femininity.

[yardstick]

I recall a comment I once came across, a woman's reaction to MIS-"I don't want men to stop being men!"

In other words this particular individual didn't want us to stop being insecure, drab and boring, the very things that are holding us back in more ways than we may realise.

[Stevej180]

I recall a comment I once came across, a woman's reaction to MIS-"I don't want men to stop being men!"

The problem I have with that sentiment is that it reduces 'being a man' (or 'being a woman' for that matter) to what you are wearing. It's the old 70s trope of men 'chasing anything in a skirt' which becomes problematic for them if they are straight and later discover that the skirt-wearer is male.

If the person making the comment thinks that 'being a man' just means wearing trousers, then I imagine they have an incredibly narrow sense of what they want from the men in their lives. As my wife keeps reminding me, women in general are less likely to judge a book by its cover than are men...

[Bart_Allen55]

“Being a man” has nothing to do with pants. If your masculinity falls apart over someone in a skirt, that’s on you.

[GerdG]

I recall a comment I once came across, a woman's reaction to MIS-"I don't want men to stop being men!"

Ridiculous. When the fashion industry, around 60 years ago, for the first time in history launched trousers for women, until then the monopoly of men, and women started wearing them, they didn't stop being women.
Why should it be different with men and skirts?

[Grok]

Question posed to women-do you feel more comfortable psychologically wearing skirts/dresses, or trousers?

[DrFishnets]

This woman has a different opinion on skirts and dresses.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZUOCVP7cPXQ? ... ckR5gmRGR7

[Uncle Al]

DrFishnets;
I get where she's coming from. At 6' 2", 74 years of age, my 'squatting days' are long gone.
I bend at my waist and, depending on skirt/dress length, potentially show what tomorrows
laundry is doing today. However, I'll trade that 'problem' for enjoying the cooling effect of
a skirt/dress, and the freedom of expression in what I choose to wear

YMMV.

Uncle Al

[STEVIE]

Why should it be different with men and skirts?

Because, "society", men and women, say so.
In a nutshell, right or wrong, that is it, and some of us are trying to change that.
Not relevant and I actually like it, but that illustration appears to be computer generated.
Sadly, a "real" version of that would be a rarity of the highest degree.
Not impossible maybe, but as near as makes little difference.

Steve.