Why do women wear skirts?
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- In a follow-up to "Why do men wear pants?" Cristen explores the fascinating history behind why women skirts and when they began braving more masculine pants styles.
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My great-grandfather liked to hang out at the train station as a kid because the women lifted their skits getting off the train and he got so see their ankles. VERY scandalous in the 1880's
In 1919 a national magazine lost much of its readership by advertising deodorant.
Imagine him getting to see a female genitalia first time!
@@vivekkaushik9508 I would say it took it ages those mountains of bloomers etc. Plus he had to work up the leg first!
No need to go to the trouble of travelling to the nearest train station, when the nearest street car stop will do just as well. My mother's best friend was born in 1908 in Hagerstown MD. She told me that around 1920, teenage boys gathered around street car stops hoping to catch glances of stockinged ankles. 40 years later, magazine adverts were full of bikinied young women. Last week, at the indoor pool I go to 2x/week, I saw, for the first time in my life, a woman wearing a tanga bikini bottom (she was obese). In the sauna I saw another woman wear a bikini bottom so tiny she surely had to shave most of her pubic hair. Female prudishness will continue to erode. By the end this century, adult women will have the right to go topless on most public property, and naked on most quiet beaches. When I was in college 50 years ago, there already were a few women who thought along this line "if revealing my breasts or pubic hair turns men on, that's their problem, not mine."
so where is the explanation on why women wear skirts?
+Siddhartha040107 not sure
The long history shows that its society and social influences that prompted women to wear skirts and dresses up until the 21st century. But today, women have a choice to wear pants or skirts without being a scandal. However there are still those who believe women should only wear skirts/dresses. And negative comments are still made towards the style of skirt worn.
+StarlingofAzerath
Haha they are the schools.
Female status symbol from the 1880s and beyond. Old rubbish.
Skirts and dresses are more comfortable, as well as cooler in the summertime
My mom went to college in southern Illinois in the early '60's. The only time she got to wear pants was when it was so cold that the school had to make a decree that it was okay for women to wear pants. Crazy!
Your mom could not have worn pants at the flagship public university in my state (which every year battles it out with Berkley for the ranking of best public university in the country) because it wouldn't admit women until 1970.
I use to despise dresses & skirts now I love wearing them I feel so feminine & beautiful. Hey, don't knock it until you try it!
I love skirts largely because getting pants that fit is too much freaking work.
I've been wearing full mid-calf skirts for years, as they are practical clothing for most purposes: they're long enough to cover everything that needs covered, they're full enough that one can sit on the ground/floor without worrying about splitting a seam as with pants (important when stocking or reading low shelves in libraries or stores, and dealing with young children), adaptable to variances of figure (important in adult women), full enough to have functional pockets, and can be made of everything from the finest chiffon for summer wear to heavy velvet or denim for winter. And in a pinch, a full skirt can even be used as a make-shift basket or pot-holders.
As an added bonus, with mid-calf skirts, one doesn't have to wear tights or pantyhose--knee-hi's or trouser socks suffice. This saves quite a bit in hosiery costs, and *drum roll please* makes using public restrooms quicker and easier in that one doesn't have to pull up said pantyhose. AND one doesn't have to worry about skirts touching a grungy floor like one does with pants.
Excellent points - thank-you! Some of Kristin's claims are logically fallacious; other are historically inaccurate. The impression she gives is that pants are the only solution to the "long, heavy, uncomfortable skirts that women had to wear before being liberated to wearing trousers." That is the logical fallacy know as a false dichotomy. It is often employed by people who have an agenda and bank on their listeners to be ignorant of basic logic - which today is the sad reality of our dumbed-down education system.
Men did not begin to wear trousers in the seventeenth century. A few years ago, archaeologists found a pair of trousers that dated back to about 3,000 B.C. Distinctions in dress and hair length were common among the majority of cultures until the past half century. It is evidence that such customs are derived by natural law. Trousers are mentioned in the Jewish Bible (the Old Testament of the Christian Bible). The Levitical priests were explicitly directed to wear them in their holy service of the tabernacle. In the Book of Daniel, the three Jewish boys who were cast into the fiery furnace wore trousers. Paintings in the catacombs where early Christians took refuge from persecution displayed the three young men wearing trousers.
Deuteronomy 22:5 in the Jewish Law of the Bible states that the wearing of a women's garment by a man or the wearing of a mans garment by a woman is immoral - an "abomination to the Lord God." The purpose is that a clear distinction between males and females promotes attraction between the sexes, gives dignity to their uniqueness, helps young children develop their identity as male or female by modeling the parent of their own sex. Of course all of this "gender stereotyping" runs against the dogma of the sexual revolutionaries who want to destroy the order of society so that the Marxist "New World Order" can become a reality.
Excellent points - thank-you! Some of Kristin's claims are logically fallacious; other are historically inaccurate. The impression she gives is that pants are the only solution to the "long, heavy, uncomfortable skirts that women had to wear before being liberated to wearing trousers." That is the logical fallacy known as a false dichotomy. It's also a straw man fallacy. It is often employed by people who have an agenda and bank on their listeners to be ignorant of basic logic - which today is the sad reality of our dumbed-down education system.
Men did not begin to wear trousers in the seventeenth century. A few years ago, archaeologists found a pair of trousers that dated back to about 3,000 B.C. Distinctions in dress and hair length were common among the majority of cultures until the past half century. It is evidence that such customs are derived by natural law. Trousers are mentioned in the Jewish Bible (the Old Testament of the Christian Bible). The Levitical priests were explicitly directed to wear them in their holy service of the tabernacle. In the Book of Daniel, the three Jewish boys who were cast into the fiery furnace wore trousers. Paintings in the catacombs where early Christians took refuge from persecution displayed the three young men wearing trousers.
Deuteronomy 22:5 in the Jewish Law of the Bible states that the wearing of a women's garment by a man or the wearing of a mans garment by a woman is immoral - an "abomination to the Lord God." The purpose is that a clear distinction between males and females promotes attraction between the sexes, gives dignity to their uniqueness, helps young children develop their identity as male or female by modeling the parent of their own sex. Of course all of this "gender stereotyping" runs against the dogma of the sexual revolutionaries who want to destroy the order of society so that the Marxist "New World Order" can become a reality.
Skirts are amazing, I never, ever want to wear pants unless it is too cold.
(y) me too! And when it is super cold a skirt is like a blanket...plus you can wear waaay more layers of warmth under a skirt then you ever can with pants.
Tell that to the wind that blows it away
Finally someone understand. I love skirts and dresses. I own 2 pants. Thats it. I am sick of seeing yoga pants all year around.
Lilith Lovett I ware them, even in the cold. They make long skirts with thick material for cold weather. Admitedly they are harder to find I only have nine winter skirts, but I have four winter dresses, so I get by alright. The real trouble fore me is finding winter night gowns, I only have three, but I have three house coats that are long enough to cover my regular all weather ones. Thse winter house coats are thick, and zip or snap in front.
I may get looked at the wrong way for saying this but I am male and I think the modern day female skirt is a sexy article of clothing. Most women look great in skirts (once it fits her body shape, is not too short etc) but that in no way means that women cannot look equally well-dressed in pants.
Since women can wear pants now, men should be able to dresses and skirts. There's no logical reason why they shouldn't.
dresses and skirts are not practical in this age. This attire is really pointless now, only perpetuated by cultural tradition
I think men should be able to wear dresses and skirts go for it, I mean what is honestly the worst that could happen? You get called a fag*ot? big deal. Wear all the skirts you want guys!
wear them casually it was like 40 degrees here the other day and i saw a guy in about a knee length skirt and i was staring at him im like whats this guys problem and he noticed he was like what got a problem with guys wearing skirts? and i was like no not at all but you're not wearing tights! its cold as heck out here! he just laughed and we started talking about it cool guy
Agreed!
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It's interesting to me how the attitude towards the skirt made a leap to another extreme. I am a female and I like wearing skirts and dresses. When I was in the UK, people would wonder why I wear them so often like there was something wrong with wearing a skirt. I feel like some people fought for feminism so fiercely that they forgot that feminism also implies no shaming in terms of anyone's choice of clothing.
+FlamedWater Only SOME forms of feminism are okay with females being feminine.
I agree. I actually find dresses and skirts much easier to wear but I get some odd looks for wearing them. And one girl thought they were 'oppressive' since I can't move around easily... I wear spandex usually under them and find them more free than tight pants.
+FlamedWater I've never had anyone tell me it's oppressive to wear a skirt (as far as I remember), but I do notice people are more likely to ask me "Are you going on a date?" if I'm dressed nicely wearing a skirt than if I'm dressed nicely wearing pants.
chanceofflurries I can tell you as a man - that I prefer women to dress like females on dates with me. It's my job to be hard, and it's her job to be soft.
+Roger McKay why does the girl have to be the soft one and the guy to be hard like wtf, you should be able to dress and act the way you want to. I'm not a soft person, i enjoy football and video games. Some of the guys i have dated are more shy and softer. So i think that whatever your gender you should be you.
when I was a senior in high school, the school board finally allowed us to were pant suits as long as the top and bottom were made of the same fabric. now at 64 I rarely were a skirt or dress..
One theory says that a major factor was menstrual hygiene and also the practicality of urination. In the wilderness, men could wear pants and 'whip it out', whereas skirts were more practical for women using the squatting technique. When availability of toilets became widespread and menstrual hygiene made significant advances, this gender difference in skirts versus pants persisted vestigially.
Sounds more reasonable. Certainly the video did not make much of a case for women continuing to wear skirts other than social convention.
So, why do women wear skirts? I didn't hear a direct answer, only implied patriarchy.
She only seems to be explaining why women started to wear trousers.
I think it has something to do with Modesty. I was in the Mormon church for 10 years. We had to wear skirts to church on Sunday. On my way out of the church I actually had the courage to wear pants once. Now that I've been out of the church I want to wear skirts of my own free will. I volunteer for a social workers place, and most of the woman there wear skirts (and they are supposed to be progressive). I'd like to know the history of modesty. The Duggar Family (19 kids and counting), all of the girls wear skirts (or dresses), no pants what so ever.
Yeah, she definitely did go off on a tangent there. But what I think she's trying to get at is that women wore skirts because men liked the way they looked. Personally, I think that in the past, skirts just made a little bit more sense for women because it was more practical for menstruating in.
Sim Lucien the bible.
Supposedly, Katherine Hepburn's pants-wearing on the set of Bringing Up Baby was not okay with the studio. She refused to give up her pants when they requested it, and then said pants mysteriously disappeared from her trailer. Her response was to walk around without pants OR a skirt until her pants were returned. Which, of course, they were.
Clothes are always a status symbol. The meanings of these symbols change constantly with time.
Women wore skirts (and not pants) for reasons related to modesty, yes, (not wanting to reveal the "sexy" shape of their legs, hips and bottoms) but it also had to do with the ability to use chamber pots comfortably and even (shocker) to move freely in ways that women would find themselves having to move. Why is there still a weird perception that men's clothing in the 18th and 19th centuries was more comfortable than women's clothing. It wasn't! Men wore corsets too actually! And they wore extremely tight and impractical coats and jackets and cravats which restricted their movement and which they could not even put on or take off themselves. They also started off the fashion of high heels. Women, contrary to popular belief, did not generally tighten their corsets to the point that they injured themselves, or couldn't breathe or move unless they were very wealthy and able to afford to sit around doing little to nothing all day, just as the men who dressed impractically were also rich "dandies" who just wanted to get dressed up and pose and didn't have to work or do anything strenuous. Most normal people dressed in a way that was practical and comfortable for them to fulfill their everyday duties. Skirts are not a sign of oppression and believing that a traditionally masculine item of clothing is superior or a "symbol of power and freedom" just because men wore them is just buying into your culture's idea of masculine superiority even while claiming to do the opposite. Skirts are actually way more comfortable and can even be more hygienic than trousers most of the time and if they weren't considered to be inherently feminine in our culture I reckon loads of men would wear them because of how comfortable and breezy they are, just as men from other cultures in the world do.
Looking around, my question is "why don't women wear skirts anymore"? There has been a huge shift from skirts 50 yrs ago to now. Being I've always felt pants to be at least somewhat uncomfortable it really peaks my curiosity. If it were an option(for me it's not since I'm a guy) I would prefer a skirt because it would feel better to wear.
Surely the fact that men face far more opprobrium for wearing skirts than women do for wearing trousers implies that skirts are a female privilege?
very interesting :)
personally, I prefer wearing skirts or short dresses when it's cold. woolen dresses and skirts, combined with thick leggings and knee-thigh boots just seem to offer so much better insulation than my woolen pants ever did.
I guess that explains why scotsmen love their woolen kilts and socks so much.
I think skirts and dresses and similar garbs will always have their place in our wardrobes, but I see no reason for them to be a sign of social status or gender specific.
This title is a lie. It never told us why women wear skirts. It's just a gender equality rant.
Yeah I was expecting the simple answer that women need easy access for monthly hygiene issues to deal with.
So it's more easy to urinate while walking.
I disagree with you. On 2 points 1. You claimed that the annoyances around wearing the impractical skirts was a sign of women being second class citizens. But I'll point out that men wore high heeled shoes and it was a class statement if you wore high heels you were of higher class. Men went to flatter shoes because they were expected to work which back in those days was considerably more dangerous than it is today. women retained their high class status and the men put their lives in danger.
I don't think you know how this works. If a cultural practice from the past is judged to be negative toward women (from our perspective in the 21st century), then misogyny must be the cause!
high heels fucked up your legs tendon and your back bone. yet female view it as a symbol of strength and power. makeup is making young girls hate their natural looks and made them feel ugly, inadequate or both. still feminist say makeup empower women. everything women hold dear is for vanity instead of function. and then they bitch about practical things like pants and air conditioner. it is beyond pathetic. it is entitlement.
Brutal Honesty Honestly, I hate high heels even though I'm short. I hate wearing make up even though I'm ugly.
I don't care what people say or think. I love skirts and dresses and I don't feel less equal wearing them. :X
I love skirts and dresses. There's mobility and airflow that you cannot get in pants that is just so nice and free. Also, they're pretty. I will probably never wear a miniskirt or a pencil skirt though, I think thats countering the benefits of a nice kneelength skirt.
I wear leggings to workout. However, I love wearing long skirts the rest of the time. It not only for religious reasons, but it is also my preference.
I wear skirts because they're incredibly comfortable. And ventilation.
Why are Victorian women's styles equated with a blow to the feminist movement, now? Wasn't the point of the movement to allow women to do, be, and dress as they please just like the men? Why does that mean we have to dress just like men? Why are women that prefer those old school styles persecuted today, when all we are doing is following our own style preferences (as is our right)? Just because one woman doesn't want to wear a corset and crinolines doesn't mean the one that does has any less value in herself. I'm tired of modern women taking offense to women who prefer the antique silhouettes, and mocking them and the modern women who wear them. The feminist movement is merely another avenue where women (as is the general human thing to do) continue to act like sheep. God forbid a woman disagrees with the general woman populace!
My aunt was the first woman to wear pants at the company where she worked, in the late 60's. It makes me so proud, lol.
Definitely fashion. Women just look so pretty in skirts.
I just look like a fully grown rat with hairy legs
When wearing a skirt.
My mother turns 59 this May and tells of how, in late jr. high/early high school, she and her best friend (there /was/ supposed to be a whole group of them, but the rest chickened out) boycotting the school dress code and wore PANTS to school because it was too freakin' cold to wear skirts! They got reprimanded and punished for it, too. And they had to have "appropriate" clothing brought up to school for them. Seriously, we're talking any where from 1969-1972 in Dallas, Texas.
I was in college in Pennsylvania 1962-1965, and we were allowed to wear pants ONLY after 5 pm Monday through Saturday, and never in the labs or library. I then worked for an international corporation and we were finally allowed to wear pants suits to the office in 1972. The jacket had to reach to mid-thigh, and was not to be removed. So, yeah.
I came, I watched, I found it to be inaccurate. I'm 55, my mother married my dad in the 1950s, and wore plenty of slacks and jeans.Kate Hepburn had popularized them int the 1930s. In the 1960s, after I came along, we were already into stirrup pants. So, check your sources, did a little deeper, talk to people who were actually there. Peace.
I still can’t understand why women didn’t just alter their dresses and skirts so that the activities they did, wouldn’t be dangerous. I.e: lessen the corsets, loose the big bell booty thing, wear “tea” length dresses, with tights...I’m sure a good number of women did (because their view on pants would have been that they were objectionable)..but we don’t see those images because the agenda of feminism was (and is) being pushed...and women in pants is twisted into being a symbol of status, power, and liberation.
I wear only dresses and skirts...and I ride a bike...and whatever else I decide to do like house work, yard work, projects, etc. I have a swim dress also. I mean..there were surely ways that women could have stayed in their traditional feminine dress, and done whatever they wanted to do. The push for women to put on pants came with the rising rebellion of women against traditional gender roles. Some of these feminists were actually not feminine at all, but lesbians, and women who just wanted to be free of their husbands, and domestic duties.
I’m a happy, healthy housewife. I enjoy raising my children, being content with my husband’s income, and wearing my dresses and skirts. This is God’s order for women and men to be different..and thus have different roles in the family, and society in general. I’m not against women working, being in government, or leadership, or being single. I would/plan to work when/if necessary for my family..but the intentional push for women to be more focused on those things rather than developing femininity as defined by God, is a huge, and growing issue. Women lording over their husbands is a growing issue. This is counter to femininity, and this is why we have this cultural battle of the sexes.
she didn't say that it meant they were second class citizens, she said that because they were female, they were second class citizens. Their impractical dress put them above other women, but the fact that it was impractical only put them further in second place to men at the time
+PinAViolet
So were slaves and serfs given dresses and corsets to mark them as second class citizens as opposed to noblemen? Oh, no, they were not. Look at the old paintings of kings like Louis the Great. NOBILITY wore fancy and highly unpractical clothing to show off wealth, NOT second class citizens. Gold crowns are very unpractical too, since they're heavy af and they give you head aches. Are those symbols of oppression as well? Yeah, didn't think so.
Also, we're talking about a time here where modern sanitary facilities were not a thing. For most guys it is no problem to unzip and relieve themselves while standing out in the open without soiling themselves. Men have an integrated hose to aim away from themselves. For a woman it was easier to do while squatting, in which case a dress (especially the dresses normal non-noble women would have worn) is MUCH easier to handle. She just needed to drop her undergarments so that they're stuck at her knees, then lift her dress or skirt and squat down to pee. With pants she'd have to completely remove her legwear or risk soiling herself while uncomfortably leaning against a tree. Nowadays that's obviously not a big problem anymore since in the western world we all have comfy, clean toilets where we can sit down, but 400 years back, you'd go do your business in the back yard or in the woods or whatever was available to you.
In conclusion, being able to wear unpractical clothing is a privilege and dresses/skirts were actually MORE practical for women than pants. Also, care to elaborate on the practicality of neckties, bow ties, top hats and fedoras? Obviously since the dress as the “unpractical” garment was put on the second class citizen to subjugate them (or something), the “practical” clothing would have been worn by the first class citizens. So, how are all those things more practical than dresses?
HMT, thank you. This is a poorly researched, Eurocentric, historically inaccurate. The long skirt, while a poor garment for running is a really fine garment in cool climates. Easy to make, easy to keep clean and to wash. If your commode is a hole in the ground or a chamber pot, the advantages are obvious. Ever sit on wet ground in pants? The bussle started out as a portable seat. A comparison of bladder infections between pant and shits shows additional advantages.
+Rl Badger actually the bustle was accepted not as a portable seat but as a cloaking device to camouflage the shape of a woman's buttocks .If you doubt this you may want to read how people were scandalized when women stopped wearing underwear that camouflaged their shape.Elizabeth Gardner ,a Bostonian widow set tongues a way by doing this.She also traveled the world collecting art and left us The Gardner Museum in Boston ( she also scandalized polite society by making it public and not a members only club for wealthy people as was the custom for museums ).
BTW strangely enough men assumed more confinement in Victorian times with the wearing of undergarments designed to cloak the bulge of his package.
+HerrMisterTheo This theory of fashion is something I've heard before.When poor people worked the fields women (and men actually) wore rice powder, talc or even lead white in Elizabethan England to show they spent most of their time indoors and avoided tans.With the Industrial Revolution this turned around Tan skin was meant to show that you didn't need to work in an office or factory and could spend time outdoors.This also explains women growing impracticality long nails as it advertised that she was not required to garden , clean ,sew , cook or do anything that required fine digital skills.
I'm still in high school, but even when my mom was in school, they weren't allowed to wear pants. She said that by high school they could wear pants UNDER their dresses for warmth (she lived in the Northwest), but it wasn't until a good bit later that women were allowed to wear pants.
That's really interesting - was this at a private and/or religiously affiliated school?
Nope. It was public school in Washington.
Skirts/ Dresses makes a woman look classy, sophisticated and beautifully feminine.
To each their own. I just refuse to conform to society, but more importantly its what I prefer.
I do agree with that. 100% that statement. I have pants I wear once in a while but can't usually stand pants.
Yes, but that's all in their heads. It has nothing to do with practicality. Pants are more efficient to wear in this age by both sexes. That is why we shouldn't have to respect a woman who dresses like a skank, because she is CHOOSING to dress that way for her own ego, not because it easier to move around or do activities in a skirt or yoga pants. I mean, wearing no underwear or yoga pants would feel amazing for a man too! But men suck it up and wear pants instead of the more comfy yoga pants or short shorts and no undies, why can't women do the same?
This is the most interesting video I have seen on your channel so far. It left me with something to think about. Thanks.
I think it should be socially acceptable for everyone to wear skirts... fashion aside, I find a lot of dresses/skirts more comfortable than pants. It's also a lot easier to throw on a dress in the morning than jeans and a shirt.
+Sara Blair yes i agree and it's easier for me to creep on people
But would you be comfortable?
Yeah
a small percentage of women who wear skirts today are forced to wear skirts for example at a job. they knew long before they accepted the job in most cases that they would have to wear a skirt so they had to be accepting of the idea of wearing a skirt. In most cases women wear skirts because they want to. They know that they are more attractive when they wear skirts than when they wear pants. it doesn't make any sense that people blame men for women wearing skirts. In most cases women choose to wear skirts.
I am raised as a man and I has pants all the time, even during the summer when my balls are slippering around in sweat gathered in the brief, then I so often wish it was accepted to wear a skirt. Yes, I'm stuck in the man trap where I need to stay and where the fashion stores for men is as dark as funeral homes and where it is dangerous to just say a thing like "it would be nice to be able to wear a dress".
Haha. Skirts are acceptable for men in many parts of the world. ;)
Go ahead and wear skirts! Whats the worst that could happen? You get called a faggot? punch the guy in the nose and go about your skirt-y day! I'm totally for guys in skirts!!!
PolycrystallineLace
"it's not a skirt it's a celt...."
"It's a skirt"
Randall Stephens you mean kilt?
Abbey isawesome yeah that haha. Third shift is a bitch trying to type and think.....need more coffee!
With some exceptions, I only wear pants when I feel I have to. Hiking in he sage brush, it is sometimes quite easy to pick up ticks, or get bitten by other things. Pants or leggings are generally too tight around my hips, making it hot and uncomfortable. I discovered the pants that Nurses wear, so love those. Pants from India are often quite loose in the hips and crotch and very comfortable. Chosen carefully wearing a skirt on a bike is quite comfortable and I see it a lot.
She skipped right over the 1920's. :( So much important skirt vs pants bizz happened then.
I asked my wife why she was wearing skirts all the time (she pulls off the pants like nobody's business!) and she said it was because sometimes they're just plain comfortable. I have literally NEVER even thought about a woman wearing a skirt or not. To me at least, the question becomes: is it more practical to wear pants at that time or do you want to wear a skirt?
I always kind of assumed that women wore all that fabric down there to hide their period before the invention of better pads/tampons
+Jun Burgin I do think that periods were a reason for it, yes.
I get accused of so much for wearing skirts, to be honest. I must not be feminist enough or am too feminist to put on tight pants or must have some restrictive religion. I just genuinely like wearing skirts because I find them comfortable.
She spent most of the video complaining but never got around to why women wear skirts... Not that they do these days very often.
My guess is that in the times when you did not necessarily have smallclothes a skirt was very practical for a woman when she needed to spend a penny. As for why a skirt attracts attention today, that is even more obvious: It is a sign of femininity, and is thus appreciated by normal men.
I'm not surrprised hat you're down on skirts, you don't strike me as 'very feminin'
Except for winter, ok but normally skirts are for feminin women mostly, they walk in a certain way which is very appealing - even to women.
I can remember that when I was in Junior High School girls were allowed to wear pants on the last day of school. when I went to High School we were in the midst of the Vietnam War and we were wearing slacks to school. Girls were still not wearing jeans to school until I was a Junior in high school, but that was the middle of the "sexual revolution". We wore hip hugger pants to school, but you couldn't let your midriff show, so you had to tuck your long tailed shirts in. This was 1969, 1970, 1971....how times have changed!
Woman in general show a fair amount more of their figure than men do in public. Most professional men don't wear tightly form fitting clothes, and the few that get to wear shorts generally wear something knee length. Women's clothes are generally far more provocative, part of that is that they have a larger variety of clothes to pick from, but in the end it's also because many women WANT to wear these clothes.
It's also because woman are not respected by men unless they are sexually attractive. That goes for the work place too, so there are all these confusing societal messages that women are receiving, and considering we've only truly been accepted into the workforce over the last 60ish years, we are all still trying to figure this out. We haven't been warranted the luxury of wearing a suit for the last 400 years.
I have seen plenty of men in short shorts. Ok yes, most of those are gay men but they are still men.
I am a girl and I would prefer to buy knee shorts, but they just don't sell them. They barely ever sell dresses or skirts below the knee either, so I think the reason women dress in a more provocative manner is not because they necessarily want to, but because that is what they see and so they assume it normal and right. This is partly the fault of society as a whole, including women.
Love her anglo-centric worldview like everything in the world revolves around Victorian England.
Except for the small error that women have been wearing skirts in all societies for thousands of years, and so did men for large periods of that.
Mongol women wear skirts, and they ride horses from the time they can walk!
The reason why we wear skirts is pretty simple, and is not anywhere near as complicated as she makes it:
1. They're easy to make, sew, and repair yourself. -It only requires a rectangle of cloth, and in old times, women often had to make this cloth ourselves from weaving. This was very labor intensive and required hours, sometimes days of work. Industrial looms weren't invented until much later in history, women used to be the one's who made all fabric. Therefor, cloth was very valuable.
2. When you've spent hours, and hours, and hours, weaving your own fabric, that fabric is extremely valuable. People would often re-use fabric for different purposes back in the day after it was done with it's primary purpose. For instance your old skirt might be turned into a bag for potatoes later.
3. To make pants, requires taking a rectangle of cloth, and making several major cuts through the fabric, and then stitching those together. This essentially destroys it's reusability. And if pants get torn or ripped, you can patch them and sew them to a degree, but you can't reuse that fabric for any large projects after it's been made into pants, because there's not enough fabric to work with.
4. Therefor, even if pants were needed, it was better to make as few as possible.
5. Also, we women tend get cold. And a skirt is essentially a blanket that you are wearing around your waist. Back in the day, homes were only heated using wood fireplaces and the inside of houses were often very cold, especially during the winter and in places like Europe. If we women wanted to stay warm, we had to bundle up, and skirts were a practical way to do this.
6. Also, we women like pretty clothes, and skirts were a very easy thing to make, and so if we wanted more clothes, it was very easy for us to sew another skirt.
When guys and gals do , dress , work , fight the same , I guess they still want diamonds , open doors , listen , etc ....
"Listen"?
Personally I find wearing skirts and dresses (often with a petticoat and/or corset )fun and expressive. I am lucky to live in a time where I can chose to wear skirts or trousers. I do find the history of these garments fascinating though. Even in men's fashion there have been uncomfortable garments and unrealistic standards of beauty (stuffing in the calf region for a manly defined muscle). Hopefully there will come a day when it is perfectly acceptable for men to wear skirts and women to wear trousers.
Thumbs up if you want to have another video of why men wear skirts!
I wear skirts to school mostly because of my religion and stuff and I wear LONG ones not gonna lie hard sometimes seeing everyone else with jeans.
umm.. when was the last time you saw a man wearing a skirt (outside of scotland or buddhist monastery)? such garbs are, sadly, still very much gender-specific...
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This is true. I was pretty shocked when one of the cis guys in my dorm at UC Santa Cruz wore a skirt "because he liked them". Since then, I've seen one guy wear a kilt casually and that's it.
once in a while i see men wearing kilts
You probably would see more men in "skirts" in South East Asian and Oceania. Men in Malaysia and Indonesia still wear sarongs. The lunghi is still worn in India, and similar garments are worn in Burma and Thailand. Pacific Islanders also wear sarongs from time to time.
I wear a kilt when hiking most of the time.
FREE THE BALLS!!!!
but seriously it cut's down sweat to zero 90% of the time.
I must offer some criticisms as I work as a living historian for the 18th century. Skirts did NOT "burst into flames", natural fibers smoulder and typically put themselves out so until syntethic fabrics became a thing (20th century), there was no bursting into flames, my colleagues who work in the 18th century kintchen and "gasp" as a blacksmith, founder, etc... in petticoats can attest to that readily. Impractial with modern machinery, sure, but I have plenty of colleagues who work safely in petticoats (and stays) doing all sorts of things including, but not limited to, blacksmith, gunsmith, founder, joiner, cook, gardener. I myself play cricket in and build fires readily in my petticoats. Also think of practicality in a, how girls go to the bathroom (inamgine periods with pants and chamber pots *shudder), and also how much a womans body can change in a short period of time...bloating, pregnancy, etc... so yes, when we get into the victorian era and later they become more a sign of restricting and keeping women in their place (and ridiculous corsetry), but for most of history, they were simply more practical for women.
I have another theory on this question: The reason women wear skirts isn't just about gender, but sex. First, looking at formal wear in general, look at a man's suit. It's designed to idealize the male form, broadening the shoulders and straightening the sides and torso. Now look at a woman's suit. You're likely to find that not only her blazer has been cut into a more shapely design at the waist, but at times even in her arms as well. Now, coming back to the skirt, what does a skirt naturally do when someone walks in it? It spreads outward, getting wider as it goes down from the waste. This subtle occurrence extenuates the female form by giving an appearance of a more exaggerated hourglass (how exaggerated depends on the cut), yet does not contribute to the rugged idealized male form.
Great learning and Cristen's midAtlantic accent always cracks me up. Love it!
I don't see how impractical attire is a symbol for a second class citizenship, it actually tells me exactly the opposite, that is shows that you have to do nothing while everything has do be done for you, only nobility can afford to be that impractical.
It wasn't a lifestyle choice though, women were forced into it whether they wanted it or not.
OwlsAtGlacierCoast Paranoia much? Nobody enforced such a thing, it was socially accepted by everyone, but not forced unto anyone. So come back to reality and stop believing in the stupid conspiracy theory that men had the power to do such nonsense.
You're the reason feminism is a thing.
OwlsAtGlacierCoast So, you pretty much confess that feminism is not about gender equality but only about hate against men... Sorry, I just don't share your hateful worldview, but I support true gender equality, something feminism is not willing to do. Feminism is a paranoid worldview, it sees only what it wants to see, and ignores that men are suffering tooo because of many reasons. If feminism would be about gender equality they would do things about the inquealities men face, but they are ignored, all the talk about domestic violence is always reduced to violence against women, that man get presured into military services around the world or are expected to give up their life as in a place on lifeboats for women or that the default is that mothers get the rights to care for the child even if she is quite instable and the father would be the better choice to care for the child. No, you ignore all that and many more issues, always claiming men are the bad guys, when in truth the difference between genders isn't an oppression from either side, but to get more rights and less responsiblities feminism created that lie that there is an oppression, and you have fallen for that propaganda. So, start using your own brain and think about how society can be changed to the better without the stupid approach of feminism that is just about blaming men for everything that goes wrong.
nah mate i only read your fist sentence, feminism comes in many forms, radical feminism believes in matriarchy, but my type of feminism which is liberal believes in equality, not matriarchy. they want to get rid of the whole "men aren't good at taking care of kids" stereotype because that enforces the idea that women are natural carers etc. they try and put across the point men can be rape victims, and actually help those male victims better than MRAs. Your view of feminism and gender roles and oppression is very skewed and has a right wing bias. They don't blame men themselves, rather traditions we've gathered throughout history that is the patriarchy, that is harmful for men and women alike.
Loved this video! As always, great work!
The second issue I take with what you said is in the 1920s pants among women were growing more popular because of Joan of arc she had become popular and women took nicely to that idea and they started wearing pants they may have changed after work but I think you focused too much attention on the myth of inequality feminism has exaggerated the inequalities that occurred. Yes there were inequalities but alot of the myth you see today is how we frame the past.
"Myth of inequality". You don't remember the days when banks could refuse a woman a loan purely *because she was a woman*, nothing to do with her ability to repay the loan. You don't remember the days when the award rate for women was lower than the rate for men because the law mandated discrimination. You don't remember the days when the law did not recognise rape in marriage because a man had his "conjugal rights". You don't remember the days when, in many jurisdictions, it was legal for a man to beat his wife. Those were the days when girls were often taken out of school as soon as the parents could, even if those girls were more academically talented than their brothers. You are the one who is framing the past in a whole lot of alt-right myths.
Beta-girl Joane de Arc was muuuuuuuch earlier :'D
You oversimplified everything, ignoring the disadvantages men had. But just to quickly go through things.
1) Women couldnt pay back loans because jobs back then were limited back then. It was mostly physical labor that most women couldnt or wouldnt want to handle for long (As an example, today women are allowed to be firefighters and in the military, but standards for these and other fields have constantly had to be lowered to allow women to enter the fields. They have been given passes sometimes to allow for quotas.
They have a high amount of medical discharge in the military compared to men due to their bodies inability to keep up with the strains of the job (when comparing for in the field duty.)
Women also got pregnant, and thats biology, not a social construct), and had periods which can often make them unreliable on jobs that needed reliability every day. So society adapted for all of this.
So giving a woman a bank account was usually a bad business idea. Now, that said, all of the money that men earned in the family went to the women anyway.
Even today, women spend 80% of the money in the economy. How can that be if they are so underpaid?
They also use over 60% of funds/resources in social programs.
We can afford to support women today in a way that we couldnt in the past, yet women still got all of her mans money back then.
2) I dont know what you mean by award rate and at what period in time. I mean all of these complaints depend on the time period and the responsibilities of men, which were greater than for women at the time (which meant greater sacrifice) would change with the times also.
3) Ah yes, the old rape in marraige issue. Women had that right also. Partners were expected to satisfy each others needs. How horrible a thought that is. But she could always divorce him. Throughout most of human history, this was possible, though not always easy, because with womens health needs, it would either fall to family (most of which were poor) or society (which didnt have the benefits we have today) to handle those. Women are a far larger amount of medical expenses than men. It may not be "fair" to be born a woman, but that is how it is.
4) it was never really ok to beat your wife, this issue is way too simplified. Karen Straugham has done some great videos on this issue, though they are a bit old so maybe hard to find. But I recommend checking her out.
5) I dont know what you are referring to with the school issue. You would have to give some context to it.
Maybe it was to get her married because they struggled to afford to take care of her, but the boy costs almost nothing to take care of and will in fact be able to be sacrificed to physical labor, where the girl would struggle more in such jobs?
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Still, all of this said, beta girl never said there wasnt inequality. She said that most of what is accused of the past is a myth, and she is correct.
A lot of it is like the wage gap myth also. Sure, there isnt an exact 1 to 1 parity across fields because they all pay different based on hours worked, experience, etc... but feminists lie and say that its all about sexism.
In the past, men had rights that women didnt have and women had rights that men didnt have, and rich people of both genders had rights that the lower class didnt have, irrespective of gender.
Your username obviously ends in "Mitty."
"...The myth of inequality feminism has exaggerated the inequalities that occurred."
I'm guessing you are pretty young. There seems to be this idea in the last few years that feminism is unnecessary. I guess I'm glad young people have the luxury of feeling this way. It means that the people who struggled to make gender equality a reality did such a good job that people born after 1990 think talking about gender issues is silly and pointless.
Having been a pants, and pants only, woman for most of my life, perhaps because the skirts that I was directed to buy early on were frilly or floral and didn't suit my personality at all, I recently found the glorious comfort of the maxi-skirt. I wear them almost daily now. They feel so light and free, nearly naked, which is a real bonus in hot and humid FL. And surprisingly almost gender neutral to me, though that is probably not the way American's view them, they just don't feel particularly or overly feminine. Maybe because men in many other countries/cultures still wear long tunics/'skirt' type clothing.
I like wearing a skirt better than pants. Pants are tight and hotter to my legs.
I like the longer skirts better. Makes it easier to pee whether you sit down or stand up.
Thanks for that information about men wearing skirts, kilts. My ancesters were Scotch and Irish and the men wore Kilts.
I think it's harder to pee with skirts and dresses that are longer. You have all that fabric you gotta hold up, and then when you go to wipe, if you let the dress go too quick, it could fall in the toilet water... yuck! I'd rather have my pants fall on the women's bathroom floor than have my dress or skirt fall in the toilet with my pee... more than likely, in a women's restroom, there won't be pee on the floor bc we don't have to aim into the toilet lol
Yep, If the floor is clean the skirt waist band goes below the knees while sitting. easy. I never dropped my skirt in the bowl. YUCK.
I wear skirts and dresses a lot, I also sometimes wear leggings. I rarely wear pants. The reason I wear skirts and dresses a lot is because It makes me feels beautiful, femenine, and on top of that it shows off my curves in a very lady-like and classy way, it just looks good with my body structure. P.s, femenists.. I love femenists, but I hate the people who call themselves femenists but truly they're not, they're either just man-haters or people who shame other women for wanting to be taken care of, or another certain reason. Femenism is about EQUAL rights, not women's right. The only reason people think it's all about the women is because originally back then women needed it far more, in fact they're the only ones who needed it at the time. However truly think about it, truthfully it's about being equal and having a choice, that means if you wanna work, you go ahead and work. If you wanna be taken care of, you go ahead and find a man/women (Yes, that counts for guys too) to take care of you.
Uh, no.
You're right in that it's a holdover from when everyone wore skirts, and how it eventually evolved into a status symbol for women. But the reason that even in modern times with much more freedom in fashion than ever before is because of the shapes of people. A woman's body is shaped differently than a man's, so different shapes of clothing compliment each gender. Women have wider hips, and the skirt is basically a trapezoid when viewed from most angles. Because of the sides of it encompassing the perimeter of their waist, the skirt adds a flare effect below the waist.
Conversely, Men's shoulders are wider than Women's, so the lines basically slope from the waist out to the shoulders. So things tend to have the inverse of the skirts shape. Instead starting at the waist and sloping outward to the shoulders as the lines extend up. A good example of this would be the Jacket and how Men wear theirs.
This stuff is just pleasing to look at, cultural connotations or not. There are certain shapes that people will just associate with genders. To the point where you can make an abstract sculpture using incredibly blocky structures, and if you taper the top and bottom to a narrower center, when asked people can identify it as female. And if you taper the bottom to the wider top, when asked people can identify it as male.
Makes sense. Style and look play a role in fashion as well as the market place.
Why didn't she mention a big reason for women retaining dresses (back in the day when indoor plumbing would have qualified as science fiction) was being able to squat down and pee without totally exposing the neither regions to the arctic winds? The shielding utility of a dress was much appreciated (and remarked upon) by female pioneers crossing the plains in the 1880's. With no trees to hide behind for a thousand miles, having your very own wearable privacy screen was a real help when answering the call of nature.
I thought this would be an actual history lesson on why women wore skirts, not a political commentary on the perceived inequality of women. Please, keep this P.C. crap out of a good site like "how things work". It has no place, here!
How are the uncomfortable clothes of the Victorian era any different than high heels today? Do women wear high heels because of the 'patriarchy'? No, of course not. They wear them for themselves, to be fashionable. Same shit back then, lady. Men probably would have preferred their women to wear something a bit more practical but the ladies insisted on these gaudy uncomfortable outfits.
What I don't understand is why girls wear skirts that they're so embarrassed to be wearing. You'll see a girl wearing a skirt so short that she has to bend and contort her legs and hips in strange ways just to sit, stand, bend over, etc... If you're so embarrassed that a gust of wind might lift your skirt an inch or two then perhaps you need something a little longer before you leave the house? I just cannot understand why women do this to themselves on purpose!
I'd like to point out that one of the many reasons why women may not have picked up on the early ideas of pants may have to do with a simple fact that periods required more cover up than pants offered. disposable pads were not commercially sold until 1888 and tampons in 1931.
I loove dresses and skirst (loose fitting ofcourse) in monterrey mexico where we normally hit up to 45 celsius degrees (about 110-120 farenheit)...Skirts and loose fitting dresses are the norm... Pants are the devil...lol.., even my dad is like i wish i could wear a dress like yours
Hahhhahha well he really could but the society would probably judge him:(
As a woman who wears only skirts, even in the winter...this is silly.
I wasn't expecting it to be so educational. :-D I vote you The Queen of Satire!
Thank you, I was recently asked by my 2 little girls why only women wear skirts ( With the exception of their crazy father who occasionally wears a kilt )
This was very informative, especially in combination with 2 other videos addressing this topic that you also made.
Might I also add that your videos in general especially focus on answers of female sociality and female biology, Really make it a lot easier for a tractor driving, backwoods living, father of 2 little girls to do his job of being the best daddy he can be.
When will be ok for a man (like me) to wear a dress, skirt, etc?
I wear them know I personally like them hugs
It already is...as far as I'm concerned.
*****. Possibly
Marilyn Jones One interesting thing I like to think about is, when this day comes, there will be dresses designed specifically for men. Currently there are suits designed for men and suits designed for women, so when the day comes that men wearing dresses is just another fashion trend, I am intrigued at the thought of a dress designed for the male form.
Thunderscreamer. If I ever get to that point, I would design dresses for men or women.
Skirts were easier to make at home, and require less fabric. In the aeons when women had to squat outdoors to relieve themselves, skirts and dresses made life simpler.
Historically, after the first pregnancy, most women were heavy in the belly, hips, buttocks and thighs for the rest of their lives. Skirts and dresses disguise that fact; trousers do not.
I disagree with your "skirt requires less fabric than trousers" point: surely a skirt long enough to provide equivalent coverage of trousers, and full enough to provide full freedom of movement, would use at least as much fabric if not more?
@@GCarty80 I was comparing knee length skirts with full length trousers. Before short skirts, that was the relevant comparison.
I can wear dress pants and a nice blouse and nobody notices but the second I wear a skirt to school, people compliment me. It's just, wasn't I good enough for you in pants? Why does a skirt change how I look?
It has to do with them looking at your legs
***** Most women wear skirts for reasons other than advertising, probably 90% for fashion or because its comfortable. Just because a woman wears a skirt, short or not does not mean she wants sex. I'm not saying there aren't some that advertise like that, but generally if they are after sex, its more than just a skirt they are using to get a mans attention.
Well gee, first of all a skirt or dress flatters a woman's natural body shape. To put it another way, a skirt or a dress is very feminine -- they flatter a woman's assets. A couple of days ago, I saw a young woman wearing a long blue, beautiful dress in public. She was going to a wedding. She looked absolutely drop-dead gorgeous. It is too bad that today's women don't wear dresses and skirts more often. The world would be a much better place if they did.
@@CenturyOakWindStar BS. Woman advertise their availability due to the need for help in raising their young. Keeping the male panting insures his support.
I did a project on Amelia Bloomer for a women's equality movement project, and she's a super awesome historical figure! She was also a speaker for the temperance movement and suffrage.
I liked the video but I feel ike this could have been more aptly named "Why Western women wore skirts." I was kind of expecting a more global approach to why females in general traditionally wore dresses and skirts, since many thousands of years ago, instead of focusing on restrictive, relatively modern fashions.
I have a personal theory, myself, crazy as it sounds at first--they're more practical. I went on a trip to Japan/South Korea once and let me tell you, they have 2 kinds of toilets. One is the kind you sit on (the kind we consider normal in the West) and the other is a traditional toilet. It's shaped like a burrow or trough in the ground, or like a urinal set in the floor. They have these in men's and women's bathrooms. As a women, believe me, nothing is so awkward as trying to crouch over a hole in the ground and pee when you're wearing pants. When you're wearing a skirt, you can just pull it up around your waist and go. With pants, you can't just bunch them down around your ankles, because you'll still end up going all over your clothes. Women don't pee standing up, we just don't.
In more ancient times, before we had plumbing or sit-down toilets (thankfully the traditional toilets I saw in Asia are made of porcelain and flush now), I imagine people ended up going in holes in the ground, or something similar.
Note to viewers, this is a Eurocentric history of skirts and doesn't really apply to non-Western countries. All women around the world didn't wear the same style of skirts (e.g., in hot countries) or change for the reasons mentioned in this video. Not a complaint, just a heads up.
Yes, but i would only note that it was women that pushed this. Not men.
I'm a girl and I HATE skirts. I wear some kind of pants about 99% of the time.
I am a guy and I HATE pants. I wear a kilt whenever I can (that is pretty much all the time I am not in uniform).
I'm a guy and I find skirts completely unattractive, they don't show anything of the body and look terrible to me
Kilts ROCK i've warn them for over a decade
Let FREEDOM Swing!
--Rick
love kilts too
My mother told me before my first job interview to wear pants to the interview, not a skirt, because if I wore a skirt I wouldn't be taken seriously. For a retail job. She also admitted that her troubles with wearing pants in formal settings is why she let me wear whatever I chose throughout my childhood. All in preparation for the workplace and feeling comfortable in pants.
That's just so sad!
I sometimes wonder if one purpose of skirts is to conceal the outline of the crotch area, and thus symbolically pay homage to a woman's role as giver of life?
That would perhaps explain why employers (who don't want to be inconvenienced by maternity leave) would discriminate against skirt-wearing women.
I suspect a group that suffers especially badly from this kind of anti-feminine discrimination would be Muslim women in hijabs, who in appearance somewhat resemble that icon of motherhood (for Christians and Muslims alike): the Virgin Mary.
@@GCarty80 Nah, it's because if you wear a skirt, you seem out of touch with the world. You don't seem "modern."
@@AppleStrawberryLove And I'm arguing that "modern" in this context may be a euphemism for "anti-natalist".
now I await the men in skirts video
That approach would have felt less man hatey.
The reason for wearing skirts and dresses was due both in part to economics and biological practicality. Until the 20th century changed most societal standards, it was often the case that you could only afford a couple of outfits, one for work and one for social occasions. Because of this, the garments had to be practical. For women, the dress or skirt (gathered with a high waist) allowed for pregnancy without having to deal with buying multiple sizes of clothing that most simply couldn't afford.
skirts are not a bad idea. Mean should wear them too!
I have a limit with my skirt lengths. I don't really like to wear pants, so then that means I'll wear skirts or dresses most of the time. I prefer my skirts and dresses to be about an inch below the knee. Reason is: I can bend over in public without perverts seeing more of me than necessary (I have troubles getting up and down), if I'm cold, I can simply curl up and cover my feet, leg itch? Not a problem. Just scratch! Skirts win.
KILTS!!!
Let FREEDOM Swing!
--Rick
i am a guy and i wear skirts - i find them more comfortable, healthy and practical than pants - i wear long full skirts and have no problem bicycling, mountain climbing or doing any other activity - after wearing skirts for years going back to pants would be like wearing a straight jacket - i obviously i dont care about fashion or what others think about it
omg so much misinformation...
I felt that too. Will need to do my own research
I started wearing a kilt for hiking mountain trails a few years ago, its comfortable in hot weather .Daily walks during the winter in a wool kilt and wool knee sock are at least as warm as wearing lined jeans and actually more comfortable. If they weren't so expensive I would wear a kilt al the time.
I think long skirts look better than women.
And in the bible it says that a women shall not wear that which optaineth to a man.
In biblical times didn't they all wear dress like fashions? So that would be very difficult. Plus the bible was written by men so yeah, men trying to dictate what women should or shouldn't do.
How surprising.
your not worth my time
Was that am attempt at an insult? How cute.
You are not worth the air you breath.
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no it was not an insult i just don't want to talk to you, so leave me alone and stop typing to be
herpaderpen Fascinating but I don't take orders.
Skirts are way better than pants. The main reason skirts are better for women is because it's easier to go pee outside. Guys can just unzip and go, we have to pull our pants all the way down. Wear a skirt and all you have to do is lift and squat. It's great. They're also way more comfortable than pants. Want to ride a bike? Just wear a shorter skirt.
I hate wearing skirts and dresses..they annoy me to no avail
I *vividly* remember when girls were allowed to wear pants at my elementary school: the 1970-71 school year. And this was in the Bay Area of "liberal" California. At the time, my mother was still wearing gloves and hats (but she held on longer than most).
I'm subscribing because I like you for telling it like it is. I would have to say though that to me a woman looks her best in a long dress or skirt. I'm not trying to push sexual-ism, but as an artist, I appreciate beauty where I see it. These days a lot of men (myself included) get ostracized for telling a woman she looks beautiful. They are immediately label sexist pigs and jerks. It is actually under most circumstances meant as a compliment, and not as saying "I want to be with you!" This has made it hard for men to even try to say anything to a beautiful woman, for fear of being called out on it.
So what do you think men should do?
BTW, I think you are beautiful, and I hope you are OK with that!
Women started wearing pants in the 1930's and 40's not just in factory work but it was also fashionable and acceptable outside of that to do so. Katharine Hepburn was a big inspiration for this. Her facts are a bit off.
I personally love skirts and dresses so comfortable and every man I have made wear one has absolutely loved it I like mini skirts and dresses I feel way more well free if that's not to TMI I hate pants
When I (a male) wear a kilt in public, I get a lot of compliments (and a very few stares).
I wear skirts and dresses that are long all the time. I love them. I like the old modesty of wearing long loose dresses and long loose skirts. According to the Bible,it is stated that that women wearing men's clothing and men wearing women's garments are an abomination to God.
Here's the scripture:
Deuteronomy 22:5
Hey there, that's a brilliant analysis of common things and professionally conveyed at that. I'm subscribing of course, just to find out what other uncommon things you have to say on our overlooked world.
I never wear skirts but I do love the eastern combo of very long tunic and pants. modest and comfortable. but yeah wear what you like,and leave other people alone to do the same. it's what adults do.
Very interesting, During my trip to Cote D'Ivoire Africa I was privileged to take part in a Warrior demonstration and the attire was a kind of skirt. That the locals called Prime.