An interesting article from Australia discussing the question of why men don’t wear more skirts in 2025. Many of you will have heard or even made the discussion points yourself, but it is still nice to see new articles bring it up.
Why don’t more men wear skirts? (2025)
Two weeks ago, the bi-annual runway collections got off to a cracking start with the display of the Men’s Collections in Milan, Paris, London, New York and Pitti Uomo. (You will be entirely unsurprised to learn that the Men’s Collections are where menswear designers show their new collections.) On r…
https://breznikar.com/article/why-don-t-more-men-wear-skirts/1337
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I feel the real reason straight men are afraid to wear skirts is being mislabeled as queer. Straight men do not want their sexualaliy confused. Straight men have a sense of macho that they need to hang on to. While some men have crossed over and can wear almost any women’s clothing, even heels. Straight men who would wear a skirt do not want to be confused with those taking wearing of women’s clothes and being feminine.
Designers have to design skirts that let me feel comfortable and macho. Hiking skirts are a great example that do both. Straight men DO NOT want flowers and pretty patterns. If fashion wants to expand skirts into mens fashion they have to match current men’s fashion without an inseam.
Pete has a point, but I would put that down to a subset of the larger problem that these men have NO IMAGINATION! They can only think of femi nine skirts, and are not able to see that a skirt outfit can be very masculine. Right now, I’m wearing a dark blue denim above- the knees, with a white collared button shirt with dark blue vertical stripes. I have a leather belt with a big metal buckle and leather sandals, too. Today I have been to the car repair shop, the grocery, the urologist, carwash, and my neighbor’s (a farmer), all here in rural upstate New York. Nobody mistakes me for a crossdressing female wannabe, and nobody offers any complaint. And I look pretty darn good, too.
Nice article.
Great points Peter and JCNY.
Straight men, especially today, have fragile egos because society gives men an unreasonable standard to uphold in a world that no longer needs men to hunt to survive, fight saber tooth tigers and rescue damsels in distress.
What’s lacking is a term that’s acceptable for guys to wear skirts. Personally, I like JCNYs “freestyling.” Free to be you, free to wear what’s comfortable and freedom from others telling you what to do.
It’s also gonna be important for men ti understand the practical comfort that a skirt affords those of us with balls. I could put that less crude but why beat around the bush. I think the majority of men would understand the tagline “give your balls room to roam”
Really good articles. Isn’t it strange that trousers are better suited to women because of their shape and nothing to crush between their legs? Yet the opposite (i.e skirts) that better fits men gives them the space they need is seen as feminine.
There was bit on the news a few days ago that a bus company had banned drivers from wearing shorts in the hot spell we are having in the UK,the company dress code allows skirts so the drivers turned up in skirts.
The behaviorist faction of psychiatry and psychology needs to be spotlighted for the devilish faction they so patently are. See for ex New York Times “A Curious Disease” on women in pants,May 27, 1876 page 6, column 6 and their nauseating vilififications on women in trousers. In junior high I was sent to the school psychologist because my socks didn’t match—one black, the other dark brown. she said I “needed treatment” because I had “a deeper problem.” My father then came at her and the principal with a wolverine of an attorney to get her squelched. Another NYT quote—October 31, 1881 page 4—“The open and unexpected wearing of trousers by women of hitherto unexpected sanity would be an intolerable shock to the public nerves.” A review of skirts ethnically worn by men in diverse regions should include the Tanoura dervish (Egypt) the most fantastic of all Dervish outfits, the uttu kettu of the Indian Kathakali, a voluminous pleated dkirt with petticoats and not to be overlooked the Balkan foustanella, likely descended from Alexander the Great, worn by the Evzones of the greek army. “With foustanella wearers and its cousin the kilt, the cross dressing hoax has now started to wilt; part of the house of horrors psychiatry has built; let it all fall apart, and no tears will be spilt.” Question for social conformists—is the reason women can’t cross dress, that they are all hermaphrodites?” Before the style runous French Revolution there were the gloom spreading Puritans, inflicting the tenebrous pall of black, brown and plain white, plus gray into mens clothes.