Men In Skirts

[Pricciao]

Swansea schoolboys keep cool in skirts after shorts ban
Telegraph 15 Jul 2013
Mothers of the students at Gowerton Comprehensive School said the boys had not been allowed to wear gym shorts as an alternative and they were also not permitted to roll up their trousers to cool down.
The boys defended their decision to wear skirts saying: "It's cooled us down quite alot, if we wore trousers in class it would affect us, getting sweaty and losing concentration because of the heat".
One concerned parent said the heat even had health consequences on her son.
"Stephen came home from school on Wednesday and he'd been complaining that it had been hot all day and as he was telling me about his day he passed out in the living room."
Temperatures hit the high twenties in Wales last week as Britain continues to experience a heat wave which is expected to last into next month.

 

[Godot]

Winston Churchill would have been so proud.

 

[schmuxx]

they should be for women only.

 

[Godot]

They are

 

[John_M.]

ONLY for femmes? It's going to take a lot for certain cultures to accept skirts for men. I look at skirts for men more along the lines of comfort and style. To me, skirts are not just about any super-feminine, super-sexy skirts. Skirts por hommes could also be just simple jean skirts at knee-length or even floor length. Heck, I even don't mind skorts por hommes. They are still essentially skirts even with shorts/bloomers underneath.

I remember in past posts when people said they skirts should only be for femmes. My own intent would probably be to dismiss skirts for males. I don't really see anything wrong with skirts. I don't see anything as to why skirts can't be fashionable for us males as they (obviously) are for females. I don't wear skirts, but I probably would wonder what wearing a skirt for a day would be like. I would probably enjoy the comfort of not having some bottoms that are so crotch-grabbing. I probably would enjoy the sort of freedom a skirt can be as opposed to wearing jeans, pants, or shorts. Even if you don't like the idea of skirts for males, you at least have to adore the style possibilities for intrepid and creative fashion designers to at least attempt making stylish skirts for males.


The "skirts are only for females" is really a foul, one-sided statement, especially considering males once wore skirts before they even became a staple in feminine fashion.

 

[Bernadette]

"You don't have to be gay," he offers. "A lot of heterosexual men in New York, London and Japan, they are obsessed with Givenchy, they wear the skirts." Singer Kanye West is one of them.

Riccardo Tisci - South China Morning Post

 

[yesitsdagny]

I find men who dare to wear skirts really brave + super hot! Wearing a skirt should not be a problem for a man who is confident enough and feels good in his own skin. So yeah, I'm really looking forward to the times when men are going to embrace this trend in a more wider scale.

Some photos of the rock star skirt wearing men: Mr. Axl Rose and Mr. Martin Gore




thexstylez.blogspot.com, last.fm, depechemodefile.files.wordpress.com, dmtvarchives, f***yesdepechemode.tumblr.com/

 

[steventibaudo]

Men in Skirts at FIT

FIT is doing an exhibit on this right now. There are many skirts (mostly kilts) at the exhibit discussing gays in fashion. I'm all for a skirt on a man. I wear a pair of culottes that looks like a skirt that I wear often.

 

[MichaelBrian]

Below the knee skirts and kilts can look great on some men. I don't think it's suit me personally, maybe when I was a bit younger and still had my long messy hair. My brother looks great in a kilt. I don't see a problem with it so long as it doesn't trend too much. Every man wearing a skirt would spoil it I think.

 

[faywray]

Honestly I don't why people are debating about this. People can wear what they want and no one has the license to say otherwise. From a fashion POV, I think skirts are the future for men's fashion. All we need is a famous trendsetter who isn't perceived as "gay" to break negative perceptions of skirts on guys.
Skirts on men aren't exactly new. Personally, I think they are sexy as hell. It's one of the reasons I'm more attracted to men in historical dramas where they wear kilts and robes. If we go back to when skirts & robes were normal, then there won't be a problem with associating skirts with females. Besides, femininity is not bad thing. Remember when men first started to wear pink? Now it's pretty normal. I wish more male fashion designers would embrace femininity.

 

[Petit Lucille]

I honestly can't understand why this is so outrageous and tabu, it looks normal to me.
By the way, that skirt is mine, he borrowed it.

 

[Nymphaea]

Alexander McQueen has 2 kilts in it's webshop atm:

alexandermcqueen
I like them!

 

[Pricciao]

Korean brand Caruso ss 15

style.co.kr

 

[softgrey]

^^freaking awesome...!!!

when it is styled and balanced for a man's physique, a man in a skirt can be so stunningly gorgeous...

thanks for these cool examples...

 

[eugenius]

JW Anderson's floor-length, pleated skirts. I'm not really a fan of his particular brand of menswear, but these make me regardless.
(src: dervinbatarlo wordpress blog)

 

[Pricciao]

Funny they are all in black, have to force them to do some colors one day.

 

[eugenius]

Baby-step, Pricciao. Baby-steps.

(source: mfasociety.com)

 

[eugenius]

If I'm not mistaken, the gentleman on the left is sportin' Dries, one of my favorite collections of his. (src: mfasociety.com)

 

[eugenius]

Here's some color for you. How about a trench coat/pleated skirt combo, in fire-engine red? Very cool, IMO. From Gaultier, naturally.

(src: thestyleexaminer.com)

 

[Pricciao]

It's a cool trench, but I want to see a skirt:cool2: