Would Your Boyfriend Wear Your Skirt?
Posted by: Erica Maxwell
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style
2:50PM, Thursday November 19th 2009
The New York Times style section proclaimed today that ” ... urban Americans, mostly in their 20s — are revising standard notions of gender-appropriate dressing, tweaking codes, upending conventions and making hash of ancient norms.” To a certain extent this is true. As they say, Adam Lambert is giving out eyeliner tutorials, gender-tweaky Johnny Depp has once again been declared the “Sexiest Man Alive” by People, and women are still wearing pants. I’m not so sure I’m prepared to buy into the idea of a cross-dressing sartorial revolution.
Hipster retailers Urban Outfitters and American Apparel design specifically gender-neutral lines, and high-end designers, like Alexander Wang and Rick Owens, cross traditional styles on the runway. But these are hardly sweeping changes. High-concept fashion houses and American Apparel have always been gender neutral —because the models and fits themselves are for extremely thin people, not for those with curves, muscles, or guts. It’s only natural for the lines to be androgynous. Of the regular folk interviewed by the Times, none of the men, who said they enjoy their skinny jeans and mothers’ sweatshirts, said they’d dare to put on a skirt.
So, to me this seems like the normal tides of fashion sweeping over the coasts and leaving Kansas unaffected. How rebellious are gender-neutral trench coats sashaying the runway?
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xifeng882
wrote on November 19 2009 @ 02:53 pm: [report]
I think its awesome. That is all.
MuchoMacho
wrote on November 19 2009 @ 03:16 pm: [report]
meh. ive worn more emasculating.
secretstevie
wrote on November 19 2009 @ 03:49 pm: [report]
I think marc jacobs always looks super sexy and masculine in a skirt (kilt?). I think his signature combat boots, tattoos and muscles keep him lookin manly and yummy!
C.Munro
wrote on November 19 2009 @ 04:12 pm: [report]
I’m not entirely opposed to the idea, at least in certain settings. The ventilation would be nice in the summer.
MuchoMacho
wrote on November 19 2009 @ 04:18 pm: [report]
this is the thread i wanted my new picture to show up in…
develange
wrote on November 19 2009 @ 05:12 pm: [report]
Marc Jacobs has painfully hot leg muscles.
Anything resembling a kilt is hot.
PFG-SCR
wrote on November 19 2009 @ 05:18 pm: [report]
@develange: I’ve been staring at that picture thinking the exact same thing. Muscular calves are a thing of beauty on a man.
SouthOC
wrote on November 19 2009 @ 05:30 pm: [report]
Color me old school… but HELL NO!
That being said, Mucho you do look kind of hot!
Anniushka
wrote on November 19 2009 @ 06:11 pm: [report]
Kilts, yes. Skirts… a little weird. Why wear a skirt (unless it’s an issue of gender identity or cross-dressing, in which case knock yourself out) when you could wear a kilt? Doesn’t have to be a traditional tartan or anything, even… though I think those are stunningly awesome. I love how the full, formal Highland dress looks. Love it. Oh man.
In fact, I think a Google image search is in order, now that I’ve thought of it. Heh. Ohhhhh yeah…
meredith806
wrote on November 19 2009 @ 06:49 pm: [report]
hmm. My boyfriend accidentally put my mini skirt on when we were getting redressed in the dark. I turned on the lights cuz I couldn’t find my skirt (obvs). I have to say..it made his ass look pretty damn good mmhhmm haha
meredith806
wrote on November 19 2009 @ 06:58 pm: [report]
Oh man. Sexy.
MuchoMacho
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 08:47 am: [report]
*blush*
SouthOC
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 09:53 am: [report]
@Mucho: The combo of biceps and pink panties… *wolf whistle*
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 09:58 am: [report]
Save this for PM’s. It’s quite annoying.
*Insert derogatory slur here*
MuchoMacho
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 10:00 am: [report]
cheese ur just jealous of my pom-poms.
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 10:01 am: [report]
No, I will not touch your testicles.
Riley
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 10:05 am: [report]
Touch sounds so cold and sterile; you should passionately caress them Cheese.
MuchoMacho
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 10:10 am: [report]
sorry boys. my testes are firmly grasped in the soft supple hands of my gf… and i have no idea if thats is bragging or exposing my shame.
Penthesilea
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 10:56 pm: [report]
As a woman who loves the sight of a man in a kilt - not to mention the easy access - I say rock on! And with the combat boots… mmmmmmmm… ‘scuse me while I have a private moment.
nicothoe
wrote on November 25 2009 @ 01:16 pm: [report]
I wear skirts all the time, both at home and out in public. Personally I find them much more comfortable than pants.