This is a great post by a German man who regularly wears skirts, tights, heels and dresses and blogs about it. It’s about him working up the courage to wear a skirt and pumps to the office and what happened when he did.
The original post is in German (linked below), so I linked to it through Google Translate so you can read it in English. I haven’t read the automatically translated English, so I can’t say anything about the quality, so I hope it’s readable…
As a man wearing a skirt and pumps to the office? – DMIK.eu
And so much for all those great, useless sayings that tell you to just do something… My experience is that whenever the word simply appears in a sentence, everything is true; it’s just never easy.
The post translated into English with Google Translate: https://www-dmik-eu.translate.goog/de/posts/als-mann-mit-rock-und-pumps-ins-buro?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
The original German post: https://www.dmik.eu/de/posts/als-mann-mit-rock-und-pumps-ins-buro
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Nice to read but is it just another man without a face on the photos? What shall I do with all of these questions of “if a man can, could, would, should”, etc. Do it if you really want. I am tired of all of these infinite discussions. Are men that weak that they cannot decide what to wear? It is clothes, fabric, pattern, colour. It does not define their gender, their status, their orientation. I wear whatever I like. In private, in public, at work, at home and abroad. I had a web site (running for many years) showing hundreds of photos of me and my wife but I discontinued it because it did not change anything. I still wear what I want while most men don’t dare for whatever reasons and excuses they come up with.
I understand the frustration with it, but I think it’s a lot harder for some men to wear what they would like when they are being told by everyone (especially their significant others) that what they are doing is wrong. Like water constantly dripping on a stone, it wears then down after a while. Children, for example, don’t care what they wear. A lot of boys would wear pink, frilly dresses if their parents and peers would let them, but they are told no from an early age which they then internalize. As a result, they feel ashamed when they still do want to wear what they’ve been told not to their entire lives. It’s easier for some people to overcome that than others. Personality certainly plays a role, but I think it also depends both on how much support you receive from your close friends and family and on how hard it was “beaten” into them that they shouldn’t do it.
My goal with this website is to help show people through my own experiences that it really isn’t a bad thing to wear what you like. I had my troubles with it at the beginning, but it didn’t take me long to reach a point where I was comfortable wearing what I want in front of anyone.
That’s a really cool style of clothes deserving compliment, I’m sometimes a bit afraid about wearing these stocking, I prefer pantyhose, but this accompanied with light outfit works really well. Apparently this vegan-comparison is quite clever, given that you can’t be affected by someone being vegan (although your “taste in food” is different).
Meanwhile, I have seen interesting video named Society Only Wants You to Wear a Dress If You Look Like a Woman that I think is worth covering, since this “thinking” is probably bugging a lot of us, especially since we all go for skirts, not dresses, also because of this feeling of looking “awkward”. Would it be different if you get “dresses for men”? Hard to say, but I think social stigma would be still stronger.
Thank you for the link! I will definitely watch it because it seems quite interesting. It would probably be different if you could get “dresses for men” because then they would be cut better for the male body. I don’t wear dresses, for example, because my shoulders and chest are too wide and I just don’t think they look good. They just aren’t cut for my body type.