Several of you contacted me with a link to this article all the way back in January, so I knew I had to read it and post about it, but it’s only being published today because I had a long list of other links that were already scheduled to be published.
I certainly agree with all of the points he makes! Now I just wish that more men would actually wear them. While it’s great that there are more and more articles like this in mainstream media, they have yet to make a significant impact on how men dress.
The real change will come when mainstream retailers (both online and brick-and-mortar) start marketing skirts specifically to/for men. The “for men” label is more important to get over the psychological barrier of buying and wearing them than you would think. Just look at all the shampoos that use it!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/03/skirts-men-fashion-feminism
I didn’t know about this “men dress party”, it sounds like a joke to me but sometimes jokes turn into the reality.
Overall, good article, but one thing that bugs me now – if skirts are so practical, why women give up on wearing them so often nowadays? We know that from health perspective they should actually wear trousers but I don’t think that’s what drives them to leave skirts in wardrobe or other shelf.
From what I’ve been told by women I’ve asked is that more masculine clothes like pants make them feel more empowered. There are many things wrong with the fact that they feel the need to think that way, but fixing the skirt’s association with femininity as well as the perception that femininity is weak is what needs to happen to fix that.