A multilingual collection of intellectual and evangelical musings
Right now I’m on a train headed to Toronto, writes Travis Martin, and I will be on another train coming back, late tomorrow evening. I’ll be participating in a photoshoot at Ryerson University as part of a research project on men’s fashion. The focus of the study is men of my generation who are using …
Journalists, sociologists, and artists are looking into the history of skirted men and sharing their findings with the public at large.
Instances of men wearing skirts in non-traditional regions is nothing new, but now the world is starting to take notice.
For the curious and the novice, this how-to guide will tell a man all he needs to know about finding, wearing, and accessorizing skirts. Skirts need not be frilly, froufrou, or feminine, and can indeed be very masculine.
Bold blokes and badasses from around the globe.
It might be odd for a man to wear a skirt, but why is it taboo? My curiosity with skirts as a gendered construct really began in the wake of North Carolina’s HB2 (“bathroom bill”) debacle, and my pursuit to understand gender issues is ongoing. Many decades ago, gender equality afforded women the right to wear pants, but men never started wearing skirts. There are a lot of reasons for this and a lot of reasons why men should consider adding skirts to their wardrobe.
The thobe—ancient traditional Arabian garment designed for climate comfort—became socially uncomfortable for this daring American writer
Billy Porter demonstrates that it is the wearer’s confidence and presence which shape the perception of the wearer’s intent
The difficulty in demonstrating non-existent clothing is the fact that such clothing does not exist. And whether man or woman, very few consumers have the capacity to draw what they imagine or to sew what they draw. If it can’t be represented, how will a tailor or seamstress be able to create a custom order? …
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Perhaps it is just something peculiar to my neurodiverse brain (probably), but religious “modesty” practices are nonsensical. Why is an ankle-length skirt “modest”? Is an exposed calf that alluring? And why is such skirt a “modesty” when the presence of the ass is still known and the form of the breasts is still evident? The …
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An interesting morsel, in its original Brazilian Portuguese, or in English, via Google Translate. Portuguese: Saias para homens: liberdade, estilo e cultura | Moda Sem Crise English: Skirts for Men: Freedom, Style and Culture | Fashion Without Crisis
“How culpable are heterosexual, cisgender women in keeping men boxed in?,” wonders Jeannette Cooperman. “I take real pleasure in wearing [men’s jeans and shirts],” she writes. “Also in using power tools, swearing, and drinking bourbon. But when my not-exactly-hard-drinking husband tried to order a banana daiquiri in a pub, I did a facepalm.” To state …
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