Some men swapping pants for dresses
By MAYA KANEKO
Kyodo News
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100324f2.html (http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100324f2.html)
Style-conscious Japanese males have brought the skirt, a garment synonymous with femininity, to the forefront of cutting-edge men's fashion.
Walking down a street in Tokyo's hip Harajuku district, it is possible to spot men wearing various types of skirts or skirtlike garments, including wraps, pant skirts and long skirts, which look like aprons, as well as pantaloons.
It would never catch on in the states.
The only skirt a dude can wear in our culture is a kilt and then you gotta worry about people trying to lift it and mess with you for it. (I have been known to hang out with drunken Scottsmen...)
Quote from: cynthialee on March 24, 2010, 08:24:52 AM
It would never catch on in the states.
The only skirt a dude can wear in our culture is a kilt and then you gotta worry about people trying to lift it and mess with you for it. (I have been known to hang out with drunken Scottsmen...)
I once asked a Scottman what was worn under his kilt.
He replied, nothing was worn. Everything was in perfect working order...
-Sandy
As a person who listens to Japanese music, has friends obsessed with Japanese animation, and myself having a healthy interest in the country that mixes East and West, I think I have a reasonable opinion here. That opinion being that Japanese men have for the past ten to twenty years been experimenting more openly with their feminine qualities than men in other cultures. Which is strange because, in spite of the fact that men and women share equal rights on paper in Japan, the tacit acceptance of chauvinism and expected gender roles (especially of women) is much stronger in Japan than in other such "equality" states.