Do real men wear skirts?
By ALAN FEUER-NY Times Consider the plight of the man who wears a skirt. Schoolchildren snicker as he passes. Construction workers give him grief. Perfect strangers assume the right to criticize his wardrobe. He might be fired. He might be beaten up. His wife might leave him for a man in slacks. Yesterday, in what future generations may look back on as the birth of the Male Unbifurcated Garment movement, some 100 men in skirts marched from the Guggenheim Museum to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to proclaim their rights to women’s clothing. “We’re not transvestites, homosexuals or cross-dressers,” said one marcher, David Johnson. “We don’t want you to call us Jean or Sally.” “We’re men,” said Mr. Johnson, a retired global studies teacher from Poughkeepsie. “Men who want the right to wear a skirt.” If the cause of men in skirts has yet to take its place beside the gay rights or women’s movements, one could hardly fault the marchers who assembled yesterday to make their case on a nippy Fe
Related Questions
- How many men wear short skirts, pantyhose, and high heels publicly as a man, like I do? Who has seen a guy like me out and about?
- What is considered appropriate/conservative clothing for men and women there? Do the women need to wear long skirts?
- Dear Malach, Why do men wear ties and women wear skirts?
