This is an old article but it shows the issues and why this is still so ingrained in western society
https://www.racked.com/platform/amp/201 ... en-dresses
Why don’t men wear dresses? Older article
Re: Why don’t men wear dresses? Older article
Very enlightened piece.
The bit of the women picking up the discarded males shirt to wear in the morning, discards the fact that men tend to be larger than the women they are with. So a male shirt is almost a dress on the women, whereas a man would be splitting the dress or blouse doing things in reverse. Of course there are couples with the women as the larger partner, my own wife included, but they tend not to feature in films.
I can remember female housecoats and aprons being worn by males in films and TV shows, but always for laughs.
I really think things in the UK have changed with the high levels of immigration from cultures where men wear long dresses. Each culture has a different name for the garment, but the effect is the same. Either it is a standard button shirt which extends into a long skirt or a T-shirt type top with a long skirt. The materials seem to be different depending on the culture. I have seen some with very plain white cotton type cloth and others in loverly silky colourful material with decoration around the top. Since we have to be careful in the UK not to discriminate against anybody, it gives a Mouse perfect space to be a MIS.
I really think in the UK you can live in a skirt everyday in public, if that is what you would like to do. I prove this fact everyday in my home town of Cambridge and my work place of London. My picture pages show me in public in many varied outfits from dull work outfits to as far out as I dare outfits.
The piece also talked about having bits of your body on show that is not normal for a man. This last summer I allowed more of my chest and back to show following the lead of some here. I also went shorter in the skirts following a number of gents on here. I have not yet shown my shoulders or my belly button as others have, so I fully understand this point.
Thank you for posting the link.
The bit of the women picking up the discarded males shirt to wear in the morning, discards the fact that men tend to be larger than the women they are with. So a male shirt is almost a dress on the women, whereas a man would be splitting the dress or blouse doing things in reverse. Of course there are couples with the women as the larger partner, my own wife included, but they tend not to feature in films.
I can remember female housecoats and aprons being worn by males in films and TV shows, but always for laughs.
I really think things in the UK have changed with the high levels of immigration from cultures where men wear long dresses. Each culture has a different name for the garment, but the effect is the same. Either it is a standard button shirt which extends into a long skirt or a T-shirt type top with a long skirt. The materials seem to be different depending on the culture. I have seen some with very plain white cotton type cloth and others in loverly silky colourful material with decoration around the top. Since we have to be careful in the UK not to discriminate against anybody, it gives a Mouse perfect space to be a MIS.
I really think in the UK you can live in a skirt everyday in public, if that is what you would like to do. I prove this fact everyday in my home town of Cambridge and my work place of London. My picture pages show me in public in many varied outfits from dull work outfits to as far out as I dare outfits.
The piece also talked about having bits of your body on show that is not normal for a man. This last summer I allowed more of my chest and back to show following the lead of some here. I also went shorter in the skirts following a number of gents on here. I have not yet shown my shoulders or my belly button as others have, so I fully understand this point.
Thank you for posting the link.
Daily, a happy man in a skirt...
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Re: Why don’t men wear dresses? Older article
I remember reading this article a while back.
It starts well but then drifts into a male dominated world where the feminine is weak and boys acting like girls is deserting the troops.
The trouble is it paints this world of weak women and 'man strong!' It just has not been my experince growing up. The women in my life were immensely strong willed and woe betide any man who defied them. In my world the men did as they were told and the women ruled the roost. Men went to war because the women demanded they fight for them and so on.
Gender bending is a one way street
It starts well but then drifts into a male dominated world where the feminine is weak and boys acting like girls is deserting the troops.
The trouble is it paints this world of weak women and 'man strong!' It just has not been my experince growing up. The women in my life were immensely strong willed and woe betide any man who defied them. In my world the men did as they were told and the women ruled the roost. Men went to war because the women demanded they fight for them and so on.
Gender bending is a one way street