Even though this article is a few years old, it is just as relevant today as it was then. It’s about how genderless fashion has become much more mainstream and about how the movement is connected to equality.
Men in skirts: gender-fluid fashion is no longer a novelty
Experts reveal why the gender-neutral fashion movement continues to gain momentum
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Wife’s friends don’t understand why I like to wear skirts
My wife has a group of longtime work friends of 40 years dubbed the “Sisterhood”. They are a group on occupational therapists that have keep in contact which each other on a professional level and personal level. Each Christmas we have attended a family parties with spouses and children, attended weddings of adult kids, family funerals and just meeting up to have beers at the local brewhouse. Last summer I found wearing skirts as an alternative to pants. Well I love it and wish I had done it sooner. One of my wife’s friend’s came for a overnight visit while she was back in town. When she saw me in my skirt she seemed to question my motives. Now for the record I don’t go full cross dress like RuPaul’s drag race or Cpl. Klinger on MASH. That’s OK for the dudes that like that sort of thing but it’s not how I roll. I just like wearing a denim skirt or kilt instead of shorts. I just told her that lots of guys wear them as a non gender trend in fashion.
That weekend my wife went on a trip with 5 of the other friends. For some reason the subject of my skirt wearing came up In the conversation. They all had a hard time wrapping there heads around the concept of me wearing skirts. I’m 6ft., 5in and 240 pounds and played football in college, so maybe the image they have of me being this former jock seems weird. I’m speculating that they think I have feminized myself by putting on this garment. I’m sure their husbands would never be caught dead in a skirt. I told my wife that I don’t have to answer to the “Sisterhood” My wife was tolerant of my skirt wearing at best in the beginning but now she has come on board and supports my decision 100% as a gender neutral fashion.
It’s amazing how difficult it is for some people to wrap their minds around it. Try as they might, they just can’t understand it even though it’s actually such a simple concept: I like wearing skirts, so I wear skirts and I don’t care whether it’s something that is typically considered to be female. I’ve also encountered other people clearly questioning my motives even though it’s really just as simple as that (other than the stand against toxic masculinity, etc, etc). I’m glad to hear that your wife still supports you though 100% and that her friends haven’t convinced her otherwise!