purecotton wrote:Hi. Yes, I have been out before, but not anywhere near my wife, who frowns on this sort of thing if she can see it. When I am home alone, then she's quite happy with me dressing, if nobody else sees.
This is one of the hopeful functions of
SkirtCafe -- to encourage men that wearing skirted garments is a personal choice and that the decision to do so puts forth a rather forceful statement of, "I am confident in who I am, and I do not fear the herd mentality." I find the notion that your wife is quite happy with you "dressing" at home, but recoils from it if you decide to venture out the front door. Venturing out the front door is one of the things that this forum espouses and encourages. Not to put too sharp a point on the question but, "Are you a doll to be played with by your wife for her pleasure, and to be disciplined when your desires conflict with hers?"
I have, and will continue to wear skirts out & about, but only to my not so local LGBT meetings which have been kind enough to let me have coffee with them. (Please note that I am straight, but this is the only place I can realistically go).
This is also a fundamental tenet here -- that a man can be straight as an arrow and still wear skirted garments. So, to aver that the "only place" one can go is an LGBT venue is disingenuous at best, and wholly dismissive of wearing skired garments as a straight male at worst.
Why can I not wear skirts anywhere else? Well, I work with the younger generation & I suspect that the paranoid parents would make their children leave the group in droves & I'm not willing to risk that.
If this is a genuine concern with you, wear a kilt -- an unmistakably male garment, and even the most daft of onlookers get that. I'd not wear anything else in that situation myself -- for the same reason.
I hope, someday, to have a small meeting at one small hostelry or another somewhere in Surrey, or other home county, with a group of like minded people. Perhaps there has been one already?
Meetups happen from time to time, both small and large. I've personally met a few of the chaps from this community and hope to meet more. Not too long ago, six or so of the lads from Scotland arranged a decent-sized meet which, by all accounts, went swimmingly. There's a sub-forum here at SkirtCafe for positing precisely such things.
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