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.