Hello everyone!

[Different_Trains]

Hi all,
I am new here. I live in London, UK, and have been wearing skirts now for a couple of months or so, especially to parties where I always get compliments from the ladies!

However, after searching for the whole of that time for better and better skirts, while only partly finding what I am really looking for, I am considering setting up an online business selling skirts for men, as there is clearly a gap in the market there! I am wondering how viable you lot think this might be?

[cessna152towser]

I'd love to think your idea would be viable, but you probably need to start in a small way making for the existing mens skirt community before hitting mass production and supplying national retailers.

[Raakone]

Welcome. And I wish you best of luck in this endeavor. There is a gap in supply? Well, being as you are a Londoner, you should "MIND THE GAP" and fix it! *sorry, bad joke*

[Milfmog]

Hi Different_Trains,

Welcome to the café.

I live around 25 miles west of you, just outside High Wycombe and have been wearing kilts and then skirts for a number of years and have rarely experienced anything but positive reactions and the occasional confused look. Like you, I have found that the ladies are far more likely to be complimentary than men are but that's probably true of most things, not just clothing choices.

If you are serious about trying to fill the hole in the market I'd suggest some serious web research to see what's out there already. There really are not many male skirt wearers as a proportion of the population so few towns would be large enough to support a physical shop, hence the preponderance of web shops for male skirts. However, you may be able to find a few specialist boutiques that would stock a few men's skirts on a sale or return basis.

I wish you well in your endeavours but don't expect it to be easy, even relatively well established companies such as Midas are virtually unheard of outside the electronic world of the web.

Good luck and have fun,


Ian.

[JRMILLER]

I have noticed that young guys like to wear jeans and sometimes cutoff jeans very low on their rearend. They wear them so low that the "V" in the fabric is 8 - 10 " below where it ought to be. Further, they are very baggy. At first glance, they look like they are wearing skirts. If anyone can convince them to remove the center seam altogether, then we might have a huge market among these folks!

[Since1982]

Yanno, I've thought about doing this too, but only on an online basis. I thought of having folks send in their measurements and building custom skirts to their specifications. Every one would be different and specific to one man's custom designs. I'd think I could make skirts like this for less than $70. for unpleated skirts and over that for pleated skirts. Maybe I couldn't, but I've thought extensively about giving it a try.

Glad to welcome you to the site, Different_Trains.

[Different_Trains]

I have noticed that young guys like to wear jeans and sometimes cutoff jeans very low on their rearend. They wear them so low that the "V" in the fabric is 8 - 10 " below where it ought to be. Further, they are very baggy. At first glance, they look like they are wearing skirts. If anyone can convince them to remove the center seam altogether, then we might have a huge market among these folks!

I think I may be one of the young men you are refering to! :p I am 22, and when I was in my teens I used to wear stupidly baggy trousers. I found they restricted movement towards the knees, whereas tighter trousers restrict movement in the crotch. Skirts have neither problem, and therefore are my favourite .