One of my favorite online retailers for clothes in Germany has started featuring curated collections with men in skirts, dresses and heels.
In this article, CNN reports on the rise of men in skirts as a fashion trend. They use male celebrities as examples of famous men wearing skirts. Also discussed is the gradual acceptance of Western society of men wearing skirts and how it doesn’t necessarily have to be tied to a man’s gender or sexual identity.
An interesting article by Vice about the trend of more men wearing skirts. It talks about gender fluidity, but also about how not all men who wear skirts do it to express their gender identity. They do it just because they want to.
Esquire makes a clear statement here: men’s skirts are ready for the mainstream! They argue that because more male celebrities have been wearing them publicly and because sales figures have shown that skirts designed for and marketed to men are picking up sales, they are becoming more acceptable and normalized.
A group of men explore and discuss how best to style a skirt as a man. Not only do they talk about it amongst themselves, but they also talk to experts about their ideas.
A young, male YouTuber spent a day going about his business in a skirt. The reactions were overwhelmingly positive which just shows that wearing a skirt in public as a man really isn’t as scary as most men think it is!
This is an excellent blog post written by a man who wears skirts. He includes a bit of his own background information as well as gives advice for going out in public and styling skirts as a man.
While the topic of this article isn’t exactly about men in skirts, it does discuss the idea of expressing gender equality through fashion. It is an interesting commentary on gender-fluid fashion and what its rise means for society.
This is an interesting article from the British fashion magazine GQ about how men’s skirts are a fashion trend that’s here to stay.
This is an interesting video that features a summary of the history of skirts as well as addresses reasons why men don’t wear skirts in most Western cultures in the modern world. At the end of the video, he gives you a few tips as to what you can do if you are a man interested in wearing a skirt.
