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Sun 8 Feb, 2004 04:16 am
100 Men in NYC Seek Right to Wear Skirts
100 Men Take to the Streets of New York City to Demand the Freedom to Wear Skirts
The Associated Press
NEW YORK Feb. 8 ?- About 100 men in minis, midis and even tutus took to the streets of Manhattan to call for an end to the tyranny of trousers.
"We're not transvestites, homosexuals or cross-dressers," David Johnson told the New York Times for Sunday editions. "We don't want you to call us Jean or Sally. We're men. Men who want the right to wear a skirt."
Johnson, a retired teacher from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and the other pants opposers walked several blocks from the Guggenheim Museum to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where they visited an exhibit called "Bravehearts: Men in Skirts." Their presence attracted confused looks from a few fellow visitors.
Ingemar Johnsson, 39, came from Sweden to join the march Saturday. He told the Times that men in Europe often wore skirts and pantaloons until the time of the French Revolution, when pants became the expected masculine attire. Others pointed out that Scottish men have donned kilts for centuries.
"The male bird is always the pretty one, not the female," another participant, 27-year-old Chris Taylor, told the Times. "Why can't the male human being dress with style and color?"
Personally, my boys need security. A skirt would be too much freedom..
But don't men already have the right to ware a skirt? Nobody is stopping them. If a man wants to walk down the streets of New York City waring a skirt, he does so at his own risk.
I think the only places where it wouldn't be allowed are places where there are dress codes enforced for many reasons. At work, school. I wonder if a man could get away with waring a skirt in a court of law. Definitely not in Judge Judy's court room...
Having been a member of a pipe band, I can tell you that a kilt on a cold winter's night is an experience to say the least. And kilts are extremely heavy. I couldn't imagine wearing a skirt. And of course, a real man never wears anything under his kilt.
Wilso wrote:Having been a member of a pipe band, I can tell you that a kilt on a cold winter's night is an experience to say the least.
That would turn me into an innie...
That's about the size of it!!!!!!!
Wilso wrote:And of course, a real man never wears anything under his kilt.
There's naught been worn, it's all in purfect wurking order!!
dlowan wrote:Hmmmmmmmm......
You're free to have a wee peek, lassie.
Though ye didnae need those secateurs, do ye?
Used to go to school with a guy who regularily wore a skirt. He said it was more natural, seeing as boys stuff is on the outside and a girls, well... you get his drift.
I've heard when a lady looks up a mans kilt, she in for a gruesome sight... he he
That would be especially true for anyone looking up my kilt!
If these men want the right to wear a skirt, I would not object, however, it is only common courtesy for them to follow simple rules when wearing one. They must always set nicely, knees together, or cross their legs, but definitely no straddling a chair when sitting.
Looking pensively at my rugged, short, Scottish legs, it occurs to me that the last thing i would consider expending my energies upon would be the 'right' to wear a piece of clothing that exposes even more of them than would seem warranted; or as you Yanks would say, "the right to bear (bare) legs"!
"bear legs" huh?
Perhaps you could shave them...
I am surprised that amidst the various wackos, purple tied-dyed trogs, spouting reactionaries of doom and the pierced-posted tattooed multitudes that anyone noticed a few men in dresses.
Oh wait. I just re-read the article. It was uptown not in the Village.
Never mind.
Joe
Just think of the marketing potential for the fashion industry. Men now have basically three choices : 1) a suit, (black, brown or blue), 2) shirt and slacks w or w/o sweater (chinos, corduroy or jeans) or 3) sweats.
Bring in skirts and culottes, short length, knee length, A-lined or pleated all for men on the go. (Can you tell my wife is in the fashion industry?)
Wow, we double the market.
Joe
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ps not for me. not in a million years. not if they dragged me by my ankles over the cobblestones. not even as a joke. not even as a member of a bagpipe band (which as everyone knows, the bagpipe was given to the British by the Irish as a joke as Brits haven't caught on yet..... but I digress) no never no no no no
I had an acquaintance in my old home town who used to rollerskate at our boardwalk wearing a skirt and gloves.
He was a professor, very politically involved, tall and handsome, wore regular guy clothes the rest of the week. It was really no big deal, he was part of the scene.
whatever blows your skirt up ...is my general thought on what people wear in any regard...I would just rather my fella wear pants and I think thats fine as well
I went to Fiji for a visit. The local fellahs all wear sulus, a wrap-around. There were even tailored models with a belt.
Nobody was calling them 'nancy-boy', I can tell you that!!
I dunno. After reading that story the only thing that came to mind was
"We're men! Men in tights..."
There's this Eritrean guy in our network ... my colleague said that at some meeting the other time, he wore a skirt, and looked very handsome in it. I can imagine it, yeh. (And no, its nothing ethnic, he's just fashionable !
I've seen those long skirts in the high-fashion stores for men ... they looked pretty. I'd only ever wear a long one, cause my legs aint my best part. But I never have, anyway, mostly cause I dont feel like facing the shopping-centre comments on my way to the train station and so on ... not in this town <sighs>.
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