What would you like to see in a man's dress?

[JohnH]

Skirted Viking said: Just accept the fact that male chest can be accentuated too and it looks different so do not compare it to women.

Now a male chest that is larger than normal but made that way with exercise and weight lifting is different completely. If that kind of chest is what you're referring to, I completely agree with you.
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[SkirtedViking]

I'm curious and interested why a man with a larger or portruding "chest", perhaps from gynocomastia, would want to "accentuate" his, the most common description of this problem, "Man-Boobs", unless he was a CD or for some other reason wanted to be confused with a female??? I've known perhaps 5 men in my life with limited or large "breasts" from gynocomastia, including to a degree, myself, and none I've known wanted to accentuate that look. All were deeply ashamed of the look and wore all kinds of straps and bindings to flatten them in public until they grew old enough to just not care, like me.

That is the wrong attitude to take. One should take lemons and make lemonade out of the situation. That is terrible one would ashamed of the shape of his body. One should be reasonable fit, but to use straps and bindings instead of bras is just not the right thing to do. I would use a minimizer bra if I had larger breasts for most of my clothes, unless if course, I wore a dress requiring the filling of the bust areas. And yes, just for the hell of it I would wear a low cut blouse with a push up bra or a see thru blouse with a lacy bra from time to time! I figure that my huge neck (17 inch) and head would count for something for my masculinity, as well as my stride and deep voice. {Yes, it would be fun to appear feminine and then speak with a Joe Friday [Dragnet] kind of voice. It would be even more fun to do karaoke and sing a Johnny Cash song in the bass register!}.

Wear whatever you please, unfortunately if a woman does something like that - it is cute or she just has this style (masculine), while for men it is a different story.

[crfriend]

That is terrible one would ashamed of the shape of his body. One should be reasonable fit, but to use straps and bindings instead of bras is just not the right thing to do.

JohnH, I feel, makes a good argument here. We should be happy with, or at least accepting of, who we are and what our bodies are like; doing otherwise puts us at risk from the same sorts of weirdness that turns women into bulemics trying to reach that unattainable "size 0" or puts them into otherwise impossible clothing. From outward appearances, we -- as a skirt-wearing lot -- seem to be more accepting of our bodies than many in the "trousered masses"; I suspect this is because we are more comfortable with who we are, else we'd never have the stones to wear skirted garments out and about in the first place.

I rather doubt I'd go as far as putting on a low-cut blouse with push-up appliances under and doing a karaoke of "Folsom Prison Blues", but I suppose it's not beyond comprehension so long as one doesn't go overboard with everything else. Personally, I suspect that if placed in that situation, I'd heed ChrisM's sage "Rule of one" and go with trousers instead of a skirt so as to not push the envelope too much. It's a hoot of a visual, though.

[Since1982]

This is a rare occurance, me disagreeing with Carl. If you don't have that problem, you really can't say how a person should or shouldn't react. A slender or normally shaped person has no clue what a fat person goes thru on a daily basis with nitwits who have no idea what it's like to be overweight for life and not be able to "just go on a diet to "fix it" Some weight problems are not "fixable" with diets or exercise. Mine are in that category, and are a result of Polio as a child, which caused a problem with my pituitary gland. I removed my pictures in here some time back because of so many really nasty comments. I finally just retorted in kind, put them back up, and told the dimwits off.

If you've never been 100 or more pounds overweight from some natural reason not having to do with overeating, you just can't realize what horrible things people can think or say without considering your feelings at all. I have a bit of a short temper with dimwits and don't hesitate to blast them verbally. Otherwise, to me, I start thinking they feel it's normal to say nasty things to others without a reason. I'm sorry if being responded to in kind bothers some folks, maybe they should think how what they say will be taken before saying insulting and cruel things.

[JohnH]

That is terrible one would ashamed of the shape of his body. One should be reasonable fit, but to use straps and bindings instead of bras is just not the right thing to do.

I rather doubt I'd go as far as putting on a low-cut blouse with push-up appliances under and doing a karaoke of "Folsom Prison Blues", but I suppose it's not beyond comprehension so long as one doesn't go overboard with everything else. Personally, I suspect that if placed in that situation, I'd heed ChrisM's sage "Rule of one" and go with trousers instead of a skirt so as to not push the envelope too much. It's a hoot of a visual, though.

That outfit while singing Johnny Cash - e.g., "Rings of Fire" would be great laughs for Halloween at a local Karaoke bar - get dressed up all the way with makeup, heels, etc. In that case, the performer would want to really push the envelope. A man definitely would NOT do that on an everyday basis unless he wanted to be an all out and out transvestite.

I will not wear a low cut blouse with a push up bra except in the Halloween context above.

[Jack Williams]

Thanks for broaching the subject. Here is me in my denim shirt-dress with cotton knit t-dress underneath. I got good reactions, what do you think?

[Jack Williams]

Actually there is another skirted bloke in that picture.

[Stu]

Actually, while I have doubts about dresses for men, I have to admit that looks very good - masculine, too.

It suits you and you can obviously carry it off.

Stu

[Jack Williams]

Has anyone else spotted the other skirted joker in that photo?

[Since1982]

Sure, purple, black and red skirt, black shirt, bare feet, right side of picture, right, Murray?

[JohnH]

My ex-wife left me with a bunch of clothes when she left me 4 years ago. I am sorting through them to see what to keep and what to otherwise dispose of. So far I have pulled 3 dresses out of the boxes that fit me.
These are dresses with sleeves on them, so I don't have to worry about straps.

One is a black velvet dress that I made for my ex-wife. That dress fits me just fine as is. It has long sleeves and comes down to my knees.

There are two floral dresses that I also pulled out. At the very least the concave "cups" in the breast region need to be made shallower (not completely flat} since I don't fill them out and I refuse to use breast forms or wear a bra which I don't need. They are mid-calf in length and have short sleeves.

Unlike a certain person who boasts about his skirt suits, painted fingernails, and stiletto heels I will post pictures showing me wearing my dresses soon.

[crfriend]

One is a black velvet dress that I made for my ex-wife. That dress fits me just fine as is. It has long sleeves and comes down to my knees.

That one sounds like a win. Velvet is a wonderful fabric; else I'd not have 3 velvet skirts. Are the sleeves 3/4 length or "proper" men's long-sleeve length? Both work -- separately -- but 3/4 length can tilt things when paired with a skirt.

There are two floral dresses that I also pulled out. At the very least the concave "cups" in the breast region need to be made shallower (not completely flat} since I don't fill them out [...]

I think you mean "convex" (bending outward from a center-line), but that's neither really here nor there. It's worth noting that good men's stuff has darts and shape to it in the chest area, so all you'll hopefully need to do is reduce the extent of the convexity -- and that's vastly easier than adding to it.

The biggest problem I've found with "borrowing dresses from across the aisle" is a lack of room for my shoulders; gals are usually not quite so broad in that measurement as are guys, and that aspect can play havoc with actually finding one that fits. In this regard, skirts are ridiculously easy. The occasional "borrowed" top can work out, but getting the whole shooting-match in one garment likely works out, odds-wise, to winning the lottery.

[JohnH]

Some answers - All the dresses are broad enough across the shoulders for me.

The sleeve length of the velvet dress is a proper man's full length and that fits me.

I was describing the top part as being concave from the inside point of view. In your terminology I need to reduce the convexity slightly as seen from the outside. I don't really have do that, it just would fit a little better if I did so. Other than that, I don't have to alter the dresses. It may be that I have wider hips and larger breasts than most men.

Looking at size charts of a certain woman's catalog I have a size 18 on top and a size 16 on the bottom, so I guess that is why it's easy to fit a one piece dress on me.

[crfriend]

I was describing the top part as being concave from the inside point of view.

That was always a possibility, and in any event the point got across.

All in all, it sounds like you've got some big "wins" in that pile! Congratulations.