Introductory Hello!
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2026 10:33 pm
Hello to everyone! Occasional lurker and first time poster. I've been wearing skirts for the past seven years now, including (much to my wife's dismay) in public. She doesn't disapprove of my wearing skirts... she's more afraid I'll be assaulted by some disapproving wannabe alpha-male. So far that hasn't happened. During the past seven years I've only had four negative encounters in public, and only one of them was an aggressive encounter, and even that was only verbal disapproval (very old woman screamed 'FAGGOT!'at me in a Walmart parking lot). Otherwise nothing too exciting has ever happened while out be-skirted, and I've even had a few compliments (just a few).
I don't always wear skirts out in public or even at home. Much of the time it depends on what I'm doing. If I'm just taking it easy at home or have some light running about to do, I prefer the comfort of wearing a skirt. If I'm out in the garden if I'm planting, weeding, or harvesting, I have an old brown canvas utility kilt I'll wear. On the other hand if I'm back in my woodlot using a chainsaw to cut down a tree for next winter's firewood, I definitely wear heavy jeans... just the thought of a wind blown skirt hem getting caught in a chainsaw blade gives me the wiggins. Ditto using the tiller to till up a new garden bed.
I've noticed that many times when I'm in public wearing a skirt, I seem to become almost invisible, as if other people (especially in my extremely conservative neck of the rural sticks) are trying really hard to NOT see (looking down or away) the man in the skirt. Anybody else experience that? Oddly enough, I've never been 'misgendered' while wearing a skirt.
I get most of the skirts I own through online resell sites such as eBay, Etsy, and to a lesser degree Poshmark. Most are all vintage. I prefer midi and maxi length skirts in wool, silk, and rayon. I especially like pleated skirts. The biggest issue I have is size. Women's sizes are the very definition of inconsistency and insanity. Fortunately, smart resellers will list the size of the waist in inches, and will even include a photo showing the measure. I've found this is especially helpful (even necesssary) with vintage skirts, where a size 12 can range from 28 inches up to 34 depending on the maker and whether the skirt is a 12p (petite OR plus), or a W (wide?), or R (regular) or any other random alphabetizing.
Most of my skirts are Pendleton. I also have skirts made by Pendleton's Canadian competitor Aljean, a good sampling of UK makers (Burberry, House of Bruar, Aquascutum, Locharan, etc...), and some German fashion brands. I also have a number of Talbot's pleated business skirts... always reliable.
I started wearing skirts after developing an uncomfortable 'man-problem-down-there'... very painful. My doctor at that time suggested not wearing underwear, and if I could do so at work just wear loose baggy shorts (I could). He also suggested that while at home I could wear a robe, wrap a towel around my waist, baggy PJ's, or if no kids to offend and/or the wife didn't mind, wear nothing. I did this for about six months and it helped the condition clear up, a lot! Then one day while shopping on Amazon for dog treats, Amazon showed a picture of a utility kilt in the left hand 'please buy this" panel of their screen. It was cool looking. Black denim, lotsa dangly chrome bits and chains... I took a chance and bought it thinking it was better to answer the door when the buzzer rang wearing a kilt instead of a towel. Kilts... the entry level skirt drug! I was hooked.
Eventually I began to feel that options for men's kilts were somewhat limited and limiting, not to mention expensive, and I started to look for second-hand kilts online. That's when I found women's fashion kilts... longer in length (which I liked), lighter weight, and simpler in construction and in fastening. I began to think that men's kilts were seriously over-engineered not because they needed to be, but because it made them complicated, heavy, and therefore 'masculine' and OK for 'real men' to wear. I stepped on over into the wider and far more fashionable world of what are typically considered to be women's only skirts, and never looked back. I still have about a half dozen or so kilts, there are a couple that are very nice, but in my opinion they just don't fit or wear as comfortably as a well made vintage woman's skirt. Hopefully this doesn't offend any kilted brethren. It's not meant to... I still wear my remaining kilts.
There you have it... my introduction. I hope you enjoyed my skirted ramblings!
I don't always wear skirts out in public or even at home. Much of the time it depends on what I'm doing. If I'm just taking it easy at home or have some light running about to do, I prefer the comfort of wearing a skirt. If I'm out in the garden if I'm planting, weeding, or harvesting, I have an old brown canvas utility kilt I'll wear. On the other hand if I'm back in my woodlot using a chainsaw to cut down a tree for next winter's firewood, I definitely wear heavy jeans... just the thought of a wind blown skirt hem getting caught in a chainsaw blade gives me the wiggins. Ditto using the tiller to till up a new garden bed.
I've noticed that many times when I'm in public wearing a skirt, I seem to become almost invisible, as if other people (especially in my extremely conservative neck of the rural sticks) are trying really hard to NOT see (looking down or away) the man in the skirt. Anybody else experience that? Oddly enough, I've never been 'misgendered' while wearing a skirt.
I get most of the skirts I own through online resell sites such as eBay, Etsy, and to a lesser degree Poshmark. Most are all vintage. I prefer midi and maxi length skirts in wool, silk, and rayon. I especially like pleated skirts. The biggest issue I have is size. Women's sizes are the very definition of inconsistency and insanity. Fortunately, smart resellers will list the size of the waist in inches, and will even include a photo showing the measure. I've found this is especially helpful (even necesssary) with vintage skirts, where a size 12 can range from 28 inches up to 34 depending on the maker and whether the skirt is a 12p (petite OR plus), or a W (wide?), or R (regular) or any other random alphabetizing.
Most of my skirts are Pendleton. I also have skirts made by Pendleton's Canadian competitor Aljean, a good sampling of UK makers (Burberry, House of Bruar, Aquascutum, Locharan, etc...), and some German fashion brands. I also have a number of Talbot's pleated business skirts... always reliable.
I started wearing skirts after developing an uncomfortable 'man-problem-down-there'... very painful. My doctor at that time suggested not wearing underwear, and if I could do so at work just wear loose baggy shorts (I could). He also suggested that while at home I could wear a robe, wrap a towel around my waist, baggy PJ's, or if no kids to offend and/or the wife didn't mind, wear nothing. I did this for about six months and it helped the condition clear up, a lot! Then one day while shopping on Amazon for dog treats, Amazon showed a picture of a utility kilt in the left hand 'please buy this" panel of their screen. It was cool looking. Black denim, lotsa dangly chrome bits and chains... I took a chance and bought it thinking it was better to answer the door when the buzzer rang wearing a kilt instead of a towel. Kilts... the entry level skirt drug! I was hooked.
Eventually I began to feel that options for men's kilts were somewhat limited and limiting, not to mention expensive, and I started to look for second-hand kilts online. That's when I found women's fashion kilts... longer in length (which I liked), lighter weight, and simpler in construction and in fastening. I began to think that men's kilts were seriously over-engineered not because they needed to be, but because it made them complicated, heavy, and therefore 'masculine' and OK for 'real men' to wear. I stepped on over into the wider and far more fashionable world of what are typically considered to be women's only skirts, and never looked back. I still have about a half dozen or so kilts, there are a couple that are very nice, but in my opinion they just don't fit or wear as comfortably as a well made vintage woman's skirt. Hopefully this doesn't offend any kilted brethren. It's not meant to... I still wear my remaining kilts.
There you have it... my introduction. I hope you enjoyed my skirted ramblings!
