It’s a step in the right direction, but it’s sad that companies still have to be forced to not discriminate based on gender.
Many men wear skirts, dresses, heels and the like only when they are home alone. They don’t even want their partners to know or see them. Much less take a walk in public dressed in this way. Here is how I see it, as the partner of a man who used to be like this.
Wearing skirts as a man can be incredibly liberating, but sometimes wearing skirts or other gender non-conforming clothing makes me feel trapped.
School uniforms in the UK allow kids to wear trousers or skirts to school which means boys are expected to suffer through hot weather in long pants. Several schoolboys have started wearing skirts to school in protest.
The world is challenging traditional gender norms and the significance of gender non-conforming clothing has become something of an ascendant star. As someone who neither identifies as transgender nor cisgender, I have embarked on a bit of a journey to embracing clothing that defies societal expectations. This article explores the empowering experience of wearing what brings me comfort.
This is an excellent, current article about why the trend of men wearing skirts and other gender non-conforming clothing is having difficulties becoming mainstream.
When my husband confessed what he was up to when I was not home, I was shocked. This is how we figured it out as a couple – and how the crisis changed my perspective.
This article is about how genderless fashion has become much more mainstream and about how the movement is connected to equality.
While I don’t entirely think that men wearing skirts is going to do away with toxic masculinity, the article makes an interesting point that it’s a sign that many men are sick of gender norms and are ready to don a skirt to break them.
While the topic of this article isn’t exactly about men in skirts, it does discuss the idea of expressing gender equality through fashion. It is an interesting commentary on gender-fluid fashion and what its rise means for society.
