Comments on: Men in skirts

Men in skirts

Slithy_Tove — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 03:09:44 -0800

Men in skirts are a meme-wannabe, popping up often, but never quite breaking out into the mass culture, or at least not recently. But if someone as puissant as this guy can wear a Little Black Dress without blushing, perhaps this guy can, too. [obSkirtman link] Me, I'll stick with chinos.
link found on Robot Wisdom

By: ajbattrick

ajbattrick — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 04:06:46 -0800

If I wanted to look like an idiot, I'd have the word 'fool' tattooed on my forehead. Men in Skirts: No Neeeed

By: GrahamVM

GrahamVM — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 04:20:42 -0800

Men In Skirts never part of mass culture? Pfah. Footy Show, c.1994. Oooh, you're all Americans, that's right. So you wouldn't know what I'm talking about. Anyway, the Scots and Greeks have been doing it for yeeeears...

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 04:45:26 -0800

[aside]Slithy_Tove: I love the way your post is constructed. One skips lightly from link to link in an ascending order of funniness and by the time you get to the final guy(musn't give anything away, but it's lése-majesté, folks) sticking to chinos is implanted on one's brain like a categorical imperative or something! Thanks for that; it jump-started my humour batteries.[/aside]

By: mich9139

mich9139 — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 04:57:31 -0800

seriously though, i don't think that pinhead is going to get a lot of crap from people for wearing a skirt. crap for starring in a series of films that progressively get worse and worse, now maybe...

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 05:00:37 -0800

i've always wanted a good kilt. you know, a real, honest-to-god, made by someone's grandmum in edinburgh kilt. as opposed to one of these.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 05:14:54 -0800

Ah but do you have the legs for it, grabbingsand? Also, not that I know anything about kilts, but Edinburgh doesn't sound authentic as a source. And yet...and yet all blended whiskies are blended in Edinburgh. I collect unwieldy Harris tweed jackets, the real ones woven and signed by tough women in the Hebrides or something. Perhaps they could fit you up. (That last link pollocked my monitor. What pillocks!)

By: RavinDave

RavinDave — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 05:16:16 -0800

Oh yeah ... this is gonna be big. Might go nice with that Paul Lynde designer man-purse I started carrying ever since I saw that Seinfeld episode.

By: asok

asok — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 05:46:21 -0800

sexual vulnerability/availability seems to be the psychological function of skirts in the west, IMHO. they have little practical purpose for the wearer, other than focussing attention on, or accentuating curves that promote the wearers sexual as(s)pect. in muslim countries, where traditional dress is standard, the difference between the sexes clothing is less striking. clothing is designed more along the lines of practicality (see right). this image also reminds me of various representations of the xtian figurehead, jesus.

By: agaffin

agaffin — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 06:53:47 -0800

The hero of "Hey, Arnold!" on Nickleodeon wears a skirt. And he's coming to a theater near you.

By: SuzySmith

SuzySmith — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:59:13 -0800

Men in skirts are yummy. And I'm not a 16 year old goth chick.

By: arielmeadow

arielmeadow — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:06:01 -0800

Gotta agree with Suzy, especially if the skirt in question is a Utilikilt!

By: disso

disso — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:48:10 -0800

There's a lot to be said about why this meme, let alone the practice will remain a wannabe for a while yet, but as y2karl pointed out: these narratives and concurrent projections of future fashions are better left to Anne Hollander. I liked her "Sex and Suits". She expects it will be a while before skirts are a tolerated form of dress for men, but sees it as a nonetheless inevitable consequence in the history of dress. Which made me glad. I can't wait, but as yet, I haven't the balls.

By: Taken Outtacontext

Taken Outtacontext — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:21:35 -0800

Least we forget the "Bro/Mansierre " of Seinfeld fame. BTW, agaffin, Arnold's "skirt" was revealed to be a long shirt on Nick.