Gone Quiet

[Grok]

[ly one in a skirt. All the women and all the other men were in trousers. We now may seem ‘strange’ to others not because we are MIS but simply because we are wearing a skirt.

It would seem that skirted rigs are becoming a niche thing. Perhaps that will be the future-trousers will be the dominant garment for both men and women, and for both genders skirts will be worn for a few niche activities/settings.

[moonshadow]

"Gone quiet"

I think they media is going to have bigger clicks to bait this year. We've got a nation to bust up, and we're not going to accomplish that writing stories about a handful of benign guys that just wear skirts.

Looking back however, I don't think "men in skirts" was ever really a serious thing. The transgender thingy leapfrogged us. We're not changing our gender, taking estrogen, entering into women's spaces, and generally, we're not making a stink.

We're just a bunch of guys that like to wear skirts... honestly with everything going on now, you have to admit, we're a bit of a snooze.

I still see a guy in a skirt every so often, but not as often as I used to. A lot of them put off a "don't talk to me" vibe, so I leave them alone mostly. The only one that actually fist bumped me was a homeless guy in Seattle wearing a tattered green skirt.

[Skirt18220]

I think Grok has it about right. Pants are the go to garment for both sexes now. Skirts are a niche market. Even in a woman's clothing store Skirts are rare.
I, in my area, am not seeing more men jump on the skirting train. I've been asked about it by a few men but none I know have taken it up. I certainly don't see the trend becoming common place. I think there is acceptance but it is a big step and not inexpensive to change out a wardrobe.
I wear my skirts/kilts everyday, the exception being once were below -15 C although that does depend somewhat on the wind factor. I started out in kilts and gradually included some skirts in the "drab" colours blue, grey, green, brown because I like those colours.
In closing in my opinion MIS is never going to be a big thing that all men take up. But that doesn't mean I can't do it and enjoy it.

[Grok]

Yes, a thread about contra dancing/skirts got me thinking about this. Contra dancing being a setting in which twirly skirts are an accepted option for men. Conceivably, specialized skirts for hiking and running might become acceptable options for men in those contexts. Possibly skirts for cycling (a few designs of which exist for women). Maybe sarongs for beach wear.

The future of MIS may lay in such specialized functions, with participating men wearing skirts only for these sort of niche activities.

[Damon]

I think Primary.com are fairly unique in that their Unisex or Gender Neutral children's clothing clothing has dresses and they actually sometimes show a boy modeling a dress. The question is how could we arrive at it being normal to see boys (and men) wearing dresses, not just in an online catalog to virtue signal but in real life. I am currently reading actor John Le Mesurier's autobiography. It has a picture of him age 3 in 1915 and he is wearing a dress. It was normal for boys at the time, and even when I was 3 in 1944 I sometimes played with a boy who wore dresses all the time. Although we lived in England, my grandparents and mother were Scottish so a kilt was an inevitable part of my boyhood. I wore it for special occasions and even in England there would usually be one or two other kilted boys. It was not considered weird and to a large extent still isn't weird or effeminate for a boy or man to wear a kilt. Unlike when I was a kid, boys kilts are not expensive and USA Kilts actually keeps the price as low as possible to encourage boys wearing kilts. I found out when a
Canadian grandson wanted a kilt like Grandad. USA Kilts have a YouTube channel where they suggest starting boys wearing kilts as soon as they can walk, and making it an everyday garment. My eldest son liked kilts when he was young (and also boy's dresses which we bought at Bentalls Department store in the 1960s) and as when he got a bit too old for dresses he wore a kilt a lot, eventually when he was about 8 two of his English friends (we lived in London) also took up kilt wearing. So to parents and grandparents on this forum. Nobody is going to look askance at you for dressing boys in your family in kilts and if you can start them early enough they aren't going to think it strange. They may help spread the idea that boys, and perhaps their dads, don't always have to wear pants.

[skirted84]

I might be optimistic but I think lack of attention can indicate its not newsworthy anymore. I go lots of places skirted without a second thought and can count on one hand any comments in the last few years, never outright negative. Lets face it, women probably get more judgement even in "acceptable" attire.

Its vital to put distance from the trans lobby*. In the old days it was Freestylers from men in kilts, then crossdressers from men in skirts.

* I don't count the transsexual/sex change cohort which until about 10 years ago crossdressers were never remotely associated with. Transsexuals campaigned vociferously but not with the loony ideologies of the trans lobby.

[Uncle Al]

LOVED YOUR STORY, Damon

So to parents and grandparents on this forum. Nobody is going to look askance at you for dressing
boys in your family in kilts and if you can start them early enough they aren't going to think it strange. They may help spread the idea that boys, and perhaps their dads, don't always have to wear pants.

If parents and grandparents are on this forum, we already understand this concept
and it needs to be conveyed to the rest of the "Western" world.

Uncle Al