IMVU Digital Paper Dolls have kilts and skirts for men

[Skirt Chaser]

This week a friend lured me into signing up at IMVU.com, a 3-D chat site. While the talking was fun I have gotten more out of using the avatars as digital paper dolls. Browsing the clothes I could "buy" with the free credits from signing up I was drawn to the skirts, kilts, and even dresses made for male avatars. Shopping is categorized by gender because the clothes must be designed for either male or female avatars to work properly in the program. that means skiers for men werer specifically designed for male avatars.

Users can also generate their own content, though that's way down the road for me. I noticed my favorite clothes designer "Afina" is a woman and so are a lot of the others. There certainly is an appreciative female audience for skirted men out there. The kilts and skirts show up more often in fantasy and goth themed clothes rather than plain everyday wear though that might change if more skirted men create their own designs.

The pictures show my plain white male avatar I got to use as a mannequin to dress up in the male clothes. Most male bodies look normal enough with skin and everything.

Quiet Man and I have had fun with the site and chat program. It is a wonderful way for a not out yet skirted man to have the fun of pretending to wear these clothes and with a wardrobe much greater than most people own in real life.

Here is the link to the site http://www.imvu.com/ or this one http://imvu.com/catalog/web_invitation. ... ower-email takes you to the same place but includes a referral ID that gives me some credits for more clothes if you sign up.

If anybody does sign up (or is already there) you can mention it in this thread or send me your username by PM if you don't want it public. I will add any Cafe patrons to my buddy list for chats. There is room for a few of us at a time, it would be a virtual meet!

Quiet Mouse

[Bob]

Hey, that skirt and dress looks great! Any chance we can put those outfits together in real life?

[crfriend]

Very interesting.

My style definitely leans towards the long skirt with vest and puffy-sleeved shirt.

[Skirt Chaser]

Any chance we can put those outfits together in real life?

Funnily enough, the first outfit parts started off in real life, sort of- movie costuming. The black skirt was modeled from one on the Pinhead character in the Hellraiser movies while the vest and blouse came from a user emulating David Bowie's Jareth clothes in Labyrinth. Apparently his styles have quite a fan base with the ladies. I think the clothes developed for male avatars really speak to the variety of tastes out there. The pages of male skirts there shout that there is an audience of wearers and admirers.

I read on Afina's site that she is having her designs made into real clothes soon because there is such a demand. What a great example of how technology is changing things. As manufacturers can see what styles are popular and having them created by users it changes the whole process. Skirts have probably been shot down for years on the managerial assumption that there is no male market for them. Now they can see that is not so and request to license already popular virtual designs.

[SkirtDude]

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[dragonfly63]

Love the skirt.....it would also look good paired with a long sweater
this womans opinion
Danielle

[SkirtDude]

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[cessna152towser]

Personally I've not tried a longer skirt (my longest is the Blaklader craftsman kilt which at 25 inches comes to just below knee) but I'd have to agree that works well Carl as a man's garment.

[Peter v]

Nice outfit, i bet it's comfortable too!

It gives a sensation of going back a few hundred years. Strange really, what a skirt and blouse can do.

It takes a few moments getting used to, but I think that such blouses, that do so well when worn by women also do well worn by men. Some nice soft materials, lace trimming, perhaps broderie material.....

Peter v.

[sapphire]

I made Carl's "puffy" shirt

The skirt he's wearing is one of the ones I call an everyday skirt

[Since1982]

I've seen you in that outfit before, Carl, it finally hit me today what you look like to me with that beard, red vest and black skirt setup. A Gypsy!! I can see you dancing in circles holding a small drum and/or tamborine.
I think you'd make a great Gypsy dancer. Even those shoes fit the overall look.

[Peter v]

Isn't it just great to be able to wear so much more clothing than we could have dreamed of before we took the step to wear skirts?

We are bringing "colour" back to the streets, in diversity in how men go dressed.

Peter v.

[Skirt Chaser]

Looking at your picture Carl, I do believe I was influenced putting that blue vested blouse with the black skirt. That look is familiar, you had that picture up for a while as your avatar, didn't you?

What is imvu's age demographic?

I'd say it is skews young as online activities do, probably the majority are teenagers using it for socializing. However, there is a draw for specific populations such as my transgender friend that introduced me to the site or others wanting to merly role play being another gender. The interesting thing though is that any man who wants to dress as a female can using a female avatar and nobody would know they are not a female. The presence of skirts for the male bodies clearly shows there is a desire for skirts to be worn as men.

Can this be taken as an indication that the younger set may be coming around to a more open view o who can wear skirts?

I do think so. Skirt wearing already happens at clubs and real life role playing events. Utilikilts and other non-traditional kilts pop up all over the place unexpectedly too so I would agree that the yonger generations are more relaxed about clothes (as well as a lot of other things). Still, I don't see regular skirts becoming mainstream or being generally permitted as officewear anytime soon.

[crfriend]

Looking at your picture Carl, I do believe I was influenced putting that blue vested blouse with the black skirt. That look is familiar, you had that picture up for a while as your avatar, didn't you?

Yes, I did have that image for a while back when we were still running the ild vBulletin software. The new limitation of 80 pixels is just too small to do it justice so I now use another one.

Skirt wearing already happens at clubs and real life role playing events.

I believe that skirts are quite well accepted in the "Goth" community; at least one hears that from time to time.

Still, I don't see regular skirts becoming mainstream or being generally permitted as officewear anytime soon.

I find that sad, because as has been shown guys are capable of putting together vary good-looking outfits (oops, forbidden word) and can look very professional whilst wearing skirted garments. Hopefully such attire will become acceptable, if not common, while I'm still on this rock.

[Aloofguru]

If anybody does sign up (or is already there) you can mention it in this thread or send me your username by PM if you don't want it public. I will add any Cafe patrons to my buddy list for chats. There is room for a few of us at a time, it would be a virtual meet!

Quiet Mouse[/quote]

are you still on there?