age breakdown here

[AndrewH]

I'm one of those in my 50s. I got my first skirt in my 20s, but I have wanted the freedom to wear them since I was 5 and the girls at school had all these different colours and fabrics and styles of skirt and I had plain grey flannel shorts.

[iain]

It seems to me the age spread, given the relatively small sample, is fairly evenly split in some ways: out of 63 people, 33 are below 50, and 30 are 50 and above.

But out of the younger section, about half are below 40, and half older than 40. There is an unusually high number born between 1946 and 1960, a post-war time when male influences might have been lessened by the demands and sacrifices of the armed services, and females perhaps had an additional influence, from the empowement of working to support the war and the corresponding changes in fashion which they adopted. I'm 49 and when I was 5 or 6 I used to nag my mother as to why I couldn't wear a kilt like my sisters! She ignored me!

So while the initial wave of people who felt this way may have had some social origin, the steady increase in younger age groups might indicate that it's now an option which people are exposed to and react to as they would any other option presented to them by experience or in the media.

what does all this mean? it means I'm looking forward to wearing my kilt to the national gallery this saturday, with my new black boots, that is what it means!

[AndrewH]

When analysing the age spread, we should probably remember that the older age groups (>60) are probably less likely to have computers than the younger groups, and this will skew the distribution somewhat!

If this survey was rerun in 20 years time, even if there is no change in the acceptability of men in skirts to society as a whole, we would probably find a slightly different shape.

And, yes, I did read Statistics at University. I had to read it, as I couldn't say it!

[HighlanderTM]

While I have noticed that most of the members here are midaged, I have been wondering what the age breakdown was here (especially the lurkers who just read this site as I know a lot do!)
I am personally 19, have been here since I was 18, and have really liked it. I am all for men/boys of every age to wearing unbifurcated garments

Well, i have been wearing one-legged pants since i was 17. I am 31 now, and consider myself a full-skirted warrior on the M.U.G front!

I actually had a so-called friend 'Out' me on his MySpace page when he got hold of my SkirtCafe photo, so i forced the issue and and actually joined his website as a friend, fully open with the fact that i wear Skirts. He was rather surprised!

Philip Sprague, aka HighlanderTM proud to be a skirt wearer!

[iain]

Some friend! Maybe you could "out" him here, so everyone here can go join his site too!

Soon people will be asking HIM why he doesn't wear skirts..

[skirttron]

born between 1946 and 1960, a post-war time when male influences might have been lessened by the demands and sacrifices of the armed services,

Quite the opposite in my opinion. I can tell you, as someone born in that range, and who spent many of my schooldays in the North, that in those times, where I lived, you were forced to conform to macho norms. I was forced, for instance, to play football in ice and snow.
I did not acknowledge, probably due to this conditioning, until in my 30s, that wearing skirts, and some subtle makeup items helps me relax. That, in my case, is the main reason for skirt wearing although I am entirely straight. I always knew I liked the look of makeup, etc, on the shelves, but honestly did not know why at the time. I now wear modern non-tartan kilts openly with modern accessories and am much happier for doing so, preferring moderate but open to more extreme and indoors.

[cessna152towser]

I was forced, for instance, to play football in ice and snow.

Me too, and if you were caught by the gym teacher wearing underwear under your football shorts you got belted with the tawse.

I now wear modern non-tartan kilts openly with modern accessories and am much happier for doing so

Me too, thank goodness for the advent of modern non-tartan kilts.

[shropshire steve]

[quote="knickerless"]I see from the Poll so far that most of us (like myself) are in their 50's.

I found that turning 50 was a huge point in my life. I will retire from work at 60 so my remaining working life is now down to single figures of years. In so many aspects of my life over the last 3 decades I have been anxious to succeed career, family etc. and would do whatever it took to achieve my objectives. I turned 50 and realised i had made it, i had got everything i wanted, people now needed me and what I can do far more then I need them to help me get on. At last I could relax, be myself, 'I aint going to work on Maggies Farm no more'. So now I often wear a skirt and that is the real me and I find that I can be confident to do so and that confidence tends to carry the day.
So with more then enough position and money i relaxed ,stopped pushing and started wearing skirts, including at work, then ironically what happens? I get promoted! funny how life works out.

[Since1982]

I started when I was about 8, sneaking next door at midnight stealing a skirt off the neighbor lady's clothesline and wearing it in secret in my dad's garage, then stuffing it under the chest in the garage and sneaking back to bed. IT'S soooooooooooooooooo much easier now.

[GerdG]

I’m 62 so far but don’t feel that old. Despite I, to my best knowledge, have no Scottish roots I started wearing kilts during the second half of the nineties. At Tom’s Café I learned that I was not alone and that quite a few men were also wearing skirts in public.
As a consequence I for a couple of years also experimented with short denim skirts but since 2003/2004 I have concentrated on kilt wearing – traditional as well as modern styled kilts like Utilikilts and Amerikilts.
I’m not against men wearing skirts (in a manly way), but I myself simply feel better in a kilt, and my wife definitely prefers me in a kilt rather than in a skirt.

GerdG

http://www.hometown.aol.com/gregma2000

[cessna152towser]

I was 38 when I got my first kilt but as I've said before I never wore a kilt as everyday wear until I was 51. My leg injury forced me into it but I was surprised how comfortable and how widely accepted it was, so now at 55 I wear kilts almost every day. My inventory now runs to 7 tartan kilts, 1 all-black kilt in traditional style, 4 non-traditional single colour kilts and 2 men's skirts from Midas Clothing.

[staticsan]

My skirt wearing is a bit limited so far. I've really only been wearing them regularly for about 6 months. But I first discovered the freedom of skirt-wearing about 4 years ago, although kept it largley to myself. My then fiance very much did not approve.

Currently, however, I'm in the process of separating from my wife over other, more serious things.

Wade.

[jaycee]

At last I've decided to post in this forum...almost as nerve-wracking as wearing a skirt in public!

I'm 49, have been wearing a skirt for 40 years and currently have a couple of brilliantg female friends to help me out. I only recently started wearing a skirt in public and I do it in such a way that nobody can tell what I'm wearing! I'll explain more later!

[Richard II]

I'm in my 40s. I have been wearing a skirt in public regularly since 2001 (as well as on odd occasions in the 80s and 90s).

[binx]

At last I've decided to post in this forum...almost as nerve-wracking as wearing a skirt in public!

I'm 49, have been wearing a skirt for 40 years and currently have a couple of brilliantg female friends to help me out. I only recently started wearing a skirt in public and I do it in such a way that nobody can tell what I'm wearing! I'll explain more later!

No pressure here, really! Relax, grab a MUG, and sit back....

binx