davidhawkes wrote:Wearing a skirt does not mean you are dressing as a girl.
It is possible to be manly but wear a skirt.
It is like saying to a woman that she must never wear pants - how outragous!!
Things have changed some, but not as much as you think. Yes, girls/women can now wear pants whenever they please but that hasn't been true for very long. And boys will still be ostracized for wearing skirts. When I was in school in the 70s, a girl who lived next door to us wanted to wear pants to school and the dress code wouldn't allow it. She would then put on jeans under her skirt and try to go to school that way. She was wearing the skirt afterall, so she wasn't breaking any rules. She got sent home.
I brought her homework home that afternoon and we were talking about what had happened. She thought then as you do now, that anyone can wear anything they like - and she didn't like wearing a skirt. I said it couldn't be that bad and a minute later, she handed it to me and dared me to wear it for an hour. Wouldn't you know but her mother came in, saw me in the skirt and we both lectured on proper attire for young ladies and men. She seemed rather smug sitting there in jeans while I still had on her skirt, trying to keep it down over my knees while the two of them were trying to hold back giggles.
Maybe things will change further. Women's pants are styled to fit women's bodies. Part of the reason skirts and dresses look silly on men is that they're not styled to fit us. We'll know things are turning when you see lines of skirts made for men (and I'm not talking about kilts).













