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One point was left out why men wore pants, manual labor and riding horses. It’s also why women wear pants. As we have moved into non-manual labor, working in office environments, we can now explore different fashions such as skirts.
Interesting to note men’s fashion today seems intent on covering as much skin as possible, just watch the news. As women’s fashion try to expose as much skin as possible, go to the beach.
Men designer have to lead the way by designing skirts that don’t scream out sexual orientation, but lean towards comfort and accessibility. Once that is achieved then other more liberal skirts will become accepted. Much the way pink dress shirts because a fashion.
We need men’s wear designer to start to work on MEN’S skirts. If men have to buy women’s clothing nothing will change.
That is true. Pants are much more practical for those types of activities which is why I also wear them when doing physical work like yard work or fixing the car. I’ve also noticed the opposing trends of men’s fashion trying to cover as much skin as possible while women’s fashion is trying to show as much of it as possible. A man wearing a swimming thong at the beach is often seen as disgusting and inappropriate, but it’s ok for women to wear thong bikinis, for example. It just shows how things are still largely seen from a heterosexual male point of view today.
Someone needs to start an online store selling men\’s skirts
There are actually already several and I’m planning a post that will feature the shops I know of. Several, oddly enough, are based in Spain, but there are a couple int he US such as https://www.skirtcraft.com or https://www.incerunmen.com/collections/bottoms-dress
I agree with Peter on the need to design skirts that appeal to more men, rather than just transferring existing women’s styles (though, notably there ARE already many existing styles that are not blatantly womanly – denims, hikers, etc.).
Overall, I found this L’Officiel article to be shallow and uninformative. Almost contradictory, too, to say on the one hand that David Bowie et al were androgynous, and then hold up Pete Davidson as a more ordinary celebrity.
Ah well, no harm done.
I also agree. Fortunately, there are small companies out there that are already trying to do this such as Skirtcraft in the US or Skirtchosen and Daves in Spain. I keep finding new shops like that in Spain for some reason. I may have to investigate and see if men’s skirts are something that’s starting to get popular there.
We had a National Geographic subscription in which I noticed close up photos of Scots, Greeks, South seas islanders etc., in skirts and presenting as men. There were movies like Ben Hur 1959 and Spartacus 1960, and The Glory Brigade 1951 in which Lee Marvin, speaking of Greeks, said “Didn’t they used to wear skirts into battle?” and of course The Devil’s Brigade 1968. The Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Babylonians, Sumerians etc. all wore draped clothes. What put so many men so rigidly into the twin tube trouser across the long centuries was a social force—not biological determinism as “clinically normative mental health professionals” strongly imply. It was riding horses that got men out of skirts/robes; horses were for centuries the best form of land transportation. If men were associated with military activities they got regarded as more masculine; armies could not compete with other armies unless they had mounted troops, which is why the Romans were wiped out in AD 378 at the Battle of Adrianople in the eastern Balkans (by trousered soldiers). Yet it was the use of horses, not trousers, that caused Rome to suffer an awful defeat. In AD 393 by decree of Emperor Theodosius I that ordered men in pants to be exiled as political subversives and their property seized; 30 years later the emperor reaffirmed the earlier decree. You can tell how Roman Catholic clergy in the Vatican derived their costumes from classical ancient times when people hadn’t yet realized that men are born wearing blue jeans and suits and ties, conjured by the London boozer Beau Brummel, who fled England to France to defraud his lawful creditors and died of gluttony and alcoholism in the Good Savior insane asylum in 1840 with a case of syphilis. Pants are often binding to male parts; men need them no more than women.