One of the young developers on our team who considers himself a femboy had a traumatic experience when his dad caught him in a dress.
This is a great article on Wikipedia about men’s skirts. It includes some history about the different types of skirts men have worn throughout the centuries as well as about the disappearance of skirts in men’s fashion and their revival since the 1960s.
This unfortunately titled video is actually very interesting. It talks about how the definition of masculinity is changing to include more “feminine” traits such as the ability to show emotions, talk about feelings, cry, etc.
This is a very interesting article about exploring masculinity through fashion. It featured a lot of men wearing gender-non-conforming clothing and discusses how this can be used to explore a man’s masculinity.
This video is aimed more at men who crossdress in order to look fully like women, but I still think there are some interesting points made that are relevant for anyone who is looking to cross traditional gender boundaries in their choice of fashion.
This is an interesting article about society’s double standard of it being ok for girls to dress in “boy’s” clothing, but it still being weird for boys to dress in “girl’s” clothing.
SONSHINE is an interesting, UK-based magazine about raising boys for an equal world.
This is an interesting article from The Guardian about why more and more men are turning to womenswear for more variety than is offered by “normal” men’s clothes.
Several of you contacted me with a link to this article all the way back in January, so I knew I had to read it and post about it, but it’s only being published today because I had a long list of other links that were already scheduled to be published.
While this doesn’t specifically have anything to do with men in skirts, it does relate in that it shows how gender norms are just social constructs that can be entirely different in other cultures.
