There was a study done by the Harvard Business School that shows that people who break fashion norms are often perceived as having a higher status because it exudes confidence.
This is an interesting article about men wearing dresses. It includes a little bit of history of men and dresses as well as a little bit about why men should wear dresses and which ones are best suited for them.
A couple of months ago, I asked for advice about how to make tights comfortable. The feedback was amazing and one of the readers posted a link to a helpful article that he wrote about the topic on his own blog.
This article presents the results of a study that shows that almost half of all men regularly wear women’s fashion. It also discusses some of the reasons they do as well as which age groups do it the most.
This is a lovely article from India about men wearing skirts. The best part about it is the perspective from a non-Western country that incorporates traditional Indian “skirts for men” into the view of men wearing skirts.
This discusses some of the previous movements for genderless fashion, particularly as it pertains to men wearing what is generally considered to be women’s clothing.
There isn’t much discussion about high heels on The Beskirted Man, but this is a post about one man’s journey to wearing high heels.
This week’s article discusses the history of men wearing dresses, where it all went wrong for them and what it would take to make a man’s dress.
The article might be a decade old but I still think it’s relevant to the situation of men in skirts today. While things are slowly changing, men wearing skirts is, unfortunately, still a rarity, and the reasons as to why they don’t have changed in the past ten years either.
This is a fascinating look at how Indonesians view gender in their culture and how it differs to the stiff intolerances of the western world.
