merlin wrote:Come on, Charlie! It's just got to be the full bridesmaid's outfit - equality and all that! It's only until after the formal reception, surely!
I sympathise with Charlie's son-in-law on this one. Full turnabout would, indeed, be fair play in this instance, but to properly pull it off the lad would have to go the whole nine yards into crossdressing, including fake boobs, and I can't imagine that going over terribly well. Typical bridesmaids' dresses are usually designed to show off a good portion of what blokes just don't have.
What he
could do, however, especially if he's going to go to the trouble to have something custom-sewn, would be to do a well tailored "shirt-dress" and then wear a waistcoat over it in contrasting colour. That would solve the "equality problem" without requiring fake hardware (or is it, in this case, "firmware"?). It would "go" with the rest of the group, and make a strong individual statement as well.
Shirtdresses are getting very uncommon these days; I saw one yesterday for the first time in several years and thought to myself, "With a few tweaks, mostly to the collar area, that'd make a damn fine man's dress." It'd have t o be a custom job, of course, and require skills I currently lack, but it's an idea for the back burner. Given how rare they are on women, I think they're fair game for guys.
Merlin wrote:Try some powerful 'incentives', free beer for a week, or something similar.
Sometimes bribes just don't work. Whilst I gleefully thumb my nose at convention by wearing skirts in public, there's precisely no way I'd don a rig that'd require me to fake body parts that I lack (or require "tucking", for that matter). Or, at least not for a paltry week's worth of free beer.
Some of the older members of the wedding party were somewhat bemused. I was not very amused; but I was seeing the situation from a different (more enlightened?) angle.
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