This is a great article on Wikipedia about men’s skirts. It includes some history about the different types of skirts men have worn throughout the centuries as well as about the disappearance of skirts in men’s fashion and their revival since the 1960s.
Men’s skirts – Wikipedia
Outside Western cultures, men’s clothing commonly includes skirts and skirt-like garments; however, in the Americas and much of Europe, skirts are usually seen as feminine clothing and socially stigmatized for men and boys to wear, despite having done so for centuries.[1] While there are exceptions, most notably the cassock and the kilt, these are not really considered ‘skirts’ in the typical sense of fashion wear; rather they are worn as cultural and vocational garments. People have variously attempted to promote the fashionable wearing of skirts by men in Western culture and to do away with this gender distinction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men’s_skirts
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Well, that quite sums it all up, doesn’t it? VERY comprehensive overview: history, reasons, culture, and even a few opinions. Nice.
I agree! I was thrilled to see it and the fact that it was so comprehensive.
That’s a lot of information to provide to someone arguing that male do not wear skirts and they did not before, and these Roman Empire soldiers just didn’t invent trousers yet so we can’t count this.
It is! I love the fact that there is such a detailed page on Wikipedia. It’s perfect to point people to who are skeptical or don’t know anything about it.