Eliminating the waistline: avoiding an unflattering optical illusion in male skirts

[robehickman]

MIS isn't going to become normalised while many of outfits people are putting together (and thus the general public are being exposed to) simply look weird, or disharmonious with the person wearing them. This is not that difficult to avoid.

[Grok]

A few members have a special eye for fashion, and can somehow assemble surprising rigs that look good.

Other members, I believe, can at least tell if a rig looks weird. I have assumed that members will try on new purchases, and stand before a mirror. They can certainly look at the images that they post. By trial and error they can figure out what works, and what doesn't.

[robehickman]

A few members have a special eye for fashion, and can somehow assemble surprising rigs that look good.

Other members, I believe, can at least tell if a rig looks weird. I have assumed that members will try on new purchases, and stand before a mirror. They can certainly look at the images that they post. By trial and error they can figure out what works, and what doesn't.

I believe that those are skills that can be learned. Analysing and paying attention to outfits one sees on another person, that instil a 'that works' / 'that looks great' reaction' is a way of being able to predict what does / does not work for a person with a given body type.

I believe that before 'men in skirts' can gain any mainstream traction, people (in general, not the members of this forum) need to start being far more discerning about the outfits they are putting together. I think that a great deal of the cultural pushback against men wearing skirts is just because most of the outfits that get assembled, do objectively look dissonant with the person wearing it.

Men are not women. This is not about being constrained by traditional 'boring' cultural norms around menswear, but to work out what kinds of skirts and skirted garments are actually harmonious with a variety of male body forms.

Actually, I think that the established garment design ideologies of mainstream menswear are preventing people from exploring male skirted outfits that work well, particularly the fixation on having the waistline in the same place. For a skirt to look harmonious with a person proportionality is everything, the length of top garments has to change depending on the length of the skirt.

Humans copy things they think look cool. If men start wearing skirted outfits that look cool instead of comical, it will gain traction.

[Grok]

I believe that before 'men in skirts' can gain any mainstream traction, people (in general, not the members of this forum) need to start being far more discerning about the outfits they are putting together. I think that a great deal of the cultural pushback against men wearing skirts is just because most of the outfits that get assembled, do objectively look dissonant with the person wearing it.

I have to wonder how often this dissonance is due to men borrowing garments from the other side of aisle. Wearing garments designed for women.

(I acknowledge that a few freestylers can make such borrowing look good).