This ten-year-old article is from one of my favorite websites to read: The Conversation. The article might be a decade old but I still think it’s relevant to the situation of men in skirts today. While things are slowly changing, men wearing skirts is, unfortunately, still a rarity, and the reasons as to why they don’t have changed in the past ten years either.
Why don’t more men wear skirts?
Two weeks ago, the bi-annual runway collections got off to a cracking start with the display of the Men’s Collections in Milan, Paris, London, New York and Pitti Uomo. (You will be entirely unsurprised…
https://theconversation.com/why-dont-more-men-wear-skirts-21899
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La plus ça change, le plus la même. Les jupes pour les homme – Aujourd’hui!
Oui oui monsieur
First we have to rename men’s skirts to get away from the feminine skirts. Second they have to design skirts that fit todays men’s style of clothing. Make skirts in the same style as men’s shorts and pants without an inseam. 3rd you have to put up racks of men’t skirts in men’s department or a website dedicated to men’s clothing. Men really don’t like shopping in the women’s department. Plus women’s skirts are not really design for men’s bodies.
Most of the skirts I own are “hiking” skirts. Skirts really work great on the trails. Since most of the skirts look like shorts most people don’t even notice.
Once a trend is established then men skirt designers can experiment much like pants changed for women. Most straight men are conservative in there clothing. Took a long time to except pink dress shirts. Skirts for men make perfect sense in the office or on causal walks. The issue is by wearing a skirt I might be sending the wrong message.
I don’t think renaming men’s skirts is necessarily necessary. We already have the word kilt which is basically what almost everyone calls my skirts.
In my estimation, two things are gonna break open the men wearing skirt thing. One is a look. If a look takes off, one that men can get behind like the single earring, then we’ll see the Tom, Dick and Harry’s wearing.
Second, if the comfort factor becomes well known through an influencer like person say athletes. Why does basically everyone trample around in no show socks and slides? They definitely don’t look good but I’ve been told it’s really comfortable and oh yeah, every athlete is doing it. Make a skirt that athletes start wearing cause it’s too darn hot to wear pants and it’ll take off.
I fear the change the name for men’s skirts will have the same effect as meggings, mantyhose and murses. These three things are shamed whereas athletic tights and crossbody bags are in. It’s sadly just such a perception that does it.
That said, I just had a great encounter with a young woman who checked me in who hadn’t heard of a kilt. I was wearing a true kilt and she loved the look. We even shared a “moment” over the comfort of skirts. But not knowing what a kilt was, I became a guy in a skirt. And she’s a fan. So I feel we may all be pioneers and yes, there may be a few “arrows” in us but from where I’m thinking, most people don’t notice and the few who do, well, I’ve had one semi-bad experience amongst so many more genuinely positive ones that love it.
We gotta just keep being ourselves, developing our look with confidence and being the walking ambassadors for real men wearing skirts as men.