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Inetersting blog:

http://gentlemenblog.com/men-wear-skirt ... nt-page-1/

Mipi

That article has been around for a while -- at least since January of 2006. The original was by Jay Dezelic of Jdez.

This line is what clued me into the repeat "So many men today live comfortable lives transporting themselves from their cozy homes, to their climaxed controlled cars, and into their environmentally shielded workspaces."

"... climaxed controlled cars"? Say what?

Interesting but nothing new, but why all the excuses for wearing one, I wish sometimes someone would shout out " I wear kilts/skirts as I like them, and I don't want to look main stream like you"

RichardA wrote:I wish sometimes someone would shout out " I wear kilts/skirts as I like them, and I don't want to look main stream like you"

Precisely!

I work with a chap who has a T-shirt that reads, "You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you're all the same." That pretty well sums things up.

I don't want to be a lemming.

Well, what is old is also new

I left the second comment about the 'blog'. The first comment is dated 24 June, 2009.
My comment is dated 3 August, 2009. So what if this was originally written in 2006.
The re-appearance of the article means someone is out there promoting skirts for men.
Let the website know that this commentator is not alone. Maybe this will help to get
Skirts for Men in the Main-Stream of life.

Uncle Al
Duncanville, TX

Well, It was new to me.

crfriend wrote:

RichardA wrote:I wish sometimes someone would shout out " I wear kilts/skirts as I like them, and I don't want to look main stream like you"

Precisely!

I work with a chap who has a T-shirt that reads, "You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you're all the same." That pretty well sums things up.

I don't want to be a lemming.

hey, cr! that's emblazoned across my coffe mug at work

I have to agree that the fact that this essay is still out there being seen indicates a subtle change in the perspective of society on men in skirts ... just in the last 5 years I've seen kilts go from, "Oh, my," to "Nice Kilt," then finally to, "so what," here in North Texas. Yesterday I wore a kilt to a funeral, a FUNERal ... frankly, I'd reserved one last pair of slacks for going to traffic court or to a funeral. I haven't had an opportunity to go to traffic court, but I really did think I might be perceived as selfish or seeking attention by wearing a kilt to a funeral, but nobody, nobody even blinked, nobody.

It is my experience that fewer and fewer people are commenting on my kilts (many which are far shorter than normal at 14"), let alone laughing as I go by ... this can only mean one thing, a man in a skirt just isn't really news anymore, there are few of us, but too many of us for it to be that much of a surprise now. This should be encouraging to those of us who don't skirt or kilt much yet, believe me, few are left who will care one way or the other so you might as well put on your favorite skirt or kilt and get out there.

I don't know if you guys remember the news story not long ago about a man who wore a skirt to mow lawns, but without underwear (I know underwear is a prohibited topic but this news event significantly impacted the skirt/kilt community). This fellow went to the city council, who at the time was under great media scrutiny nation wide to see what they would do with this skirt guy. In the end the council affirmed his right to wear a skirt, refused to enact any new city ordinance regarding skirts on men and sent the guy back to his mower, in his skirt, only admonishing him to wear it with some danged underwear so he wouldn't offend anyone. This is legally significant, his skirt was not offensive, it was his public nudity. The legal victory here for all of us is that men in skirts are NOT contradicting the standards of the community, which is what city ordinances are largely based on.

Bluntly stated, in the United States of America it is not a violation of community standards for a man to wear a skirt, it is only required for him to honor the same standards of decency that women in skirts are required to honor. If the community at large had any real issues with men in skirts this case would have turned out differently and we would be seeing city after city enacting some sort of anti men in skirt laws ... but the precedent has been set, gentlemen, and we have officially legally turned the corner on the war against the tyranny of trousers.

Now, with the law, the community standards of decency and your fellow skirtmen and kiltmen on your side ...

Mug ON!

Chris Webb