Fashion designer Marc Jacobs broke out the skirt last fall and now other designers for men's fashion are following suit. This won't fly in my part of the country. I've been trying to figure out what this means, culturally.
The tilt-back to the Scottish kilt? A desire to find a white man's uniform, a way to find oneself when the power of the white man cultural domination has fallen? The malleability of the roles of men and women in our society when the women are wearing the pants and men are filling in the mommy-at-home role?
When the 21 Club in NYC became the last establishment there to lose the tie requirement as a dress code this month, you know that things have become relaxed. Casual church services changed the traditional dress codes about the same time that cocktail outfits and "dress up" became "snappy casual" in hot hot Houston. Heading up a cotillion class for eight schools, I had to calm down the dance instructors from Colorado Springs when Sunday School dress was given as the cotillion dress code and kids showed up in skorts without hose and guys didn't wear leather-soled shoes and some came without collared shirts. That was in the 90s. In the early 2000s Atlanta came unglued with casual codes at what they called Groovy Church (informal services) where women wore full length minks to the traditional services.
Hillary Clinton changed the dress code for women in Congress when she started wearing pantsuits. Obama was photographed on his first day in the Oval Office without his suit jacket, creating a tizzy in the capital and it is business casual on weekends.
This week I'm looking at cowboys. You wouldn't catch one of them dead in a skirt. It was the cowgirls who first started wearing pants, back in the 1800s out West.
Men' s clothing are very limited in style, color, fabric and pattern. There is not question that men can wear skirted garments, and a lot of men looking much more "manly" than in any kind of pants. On the other hand, the skirt originally is a male's garment. So, men should not be afraid to wear it again nor should they hesitate to start wearing it. There are no reasons at all why they can' t, because they can do it.
Beas, I agree, there Re no restrictions at all and the on
Y thing we can do is to support men which going this new way of dressing.
Posted by: Mara | September 27, 2010 at 07:08 PM
Mara, I don't get it/ I can understand that men should not afraid to go the new way of dressing, but you mention that we should support men in skirts. How would you do that?
I like to see men in skirts, give them a smile but no more because I am married and my husband wears skirts since 5 years.
Thinking practical, how can you support men dressing the healthiest way, in skirts? Can't wait to read your answer.
Posted by: Breanna | December 30, 2010 at 07:27 AM
Breanna, sorry there must be a problem with the text. Did not write this text which is shown, it was very different.
What I want to say is that men should NOT have any restrictions because I see equality as one of the most important points in case dressing. And we all know that pants for sure not the best dressing solution for men regarding their lower body shape.
That means that I am supporting skirted garments for men.
Sorry for that misunderstanding.
Posted by: Mara | January 10, 2011 at 07:01 PM