This is a short video about men who traditionally wear skirts around the world and why it isn’t common for men in the western world to wear them.
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Alex Seifert
In many ways, Alex is a typical man who just so happens to enjoy wearing skirts and high heels. He is married to a wonderful, supportive wife and has a young son. His hobbies include reading, programming, metal music, playing instruments, video games, cars, hiking and a number of other smaller things.
well, YEAH. But it’s nice to hear a She say so. Actually I get many more positive comments on my skirting from women, FWIW.
I do too. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that women are used to complimenting others on their looks whereas men don’t generally do that even if they’re wearing “normal” clothing. It’s one of those things we’re taught is “gay” which is entirely ridiculous.
Pants were originated by Mongols and Parthians for riding horses, is that how men go about today? The word “pants” comes from Pantalone, the top clown in the medieval Italian Comedy of Arts. In AD 393 by order of Emperor Theodosius I, men in pants were exiled from Rome as political subversives and their property was seized, reaffirmed in AD 423. In AD 867 the Pope said it made no difference what men wear. In AD 1431 Joan of Arc was burned alive for wearing pants (for riding a horse). On May 27, 1876 the New York Times, page 6, column six editorial “A Curious Disease” said women in trousers were suffering from “permanent mental hallucination” and called for them to be “treated with the usual remedies in use at the best conducted hospitals for the insane.” National Geographic Magazine January 1956, page 47 had a caption for a skirt wearing male Greek soldier—“Some pleated skirts contain forty yards of material.”
That is very interesting! Thank you! It just goes to show that it not being normal for men to wear skirts now is extremely arbitrary and an effect of our current time and culture rather than being something inherently feminine like a lot of people against it seem to think it is. It also shows that people used to think of men in pants the same way they think of men in skirts now. But fortunately, we live in a society that mostly accepts us deviating from what they consider the norm rather than seizing our property and exiling us. The consequences have certainly been worse in the past.