POLL: BOYS IN SKIRTS?

[Killed_by_Death]

In the school I teach at, we allow hair dyed any color, facial hair of any sort on boys, visible tattoos and piercings, but god help you if you wear a hat.

Our local schools are the same, until college level.
You can't enter the building with your hood up or a hat on w/o being asked to remove it pretty quickly by security.
You also can't enter the building outside of the regular influx/outflux w/o getting buzzed in, after you explain who you are & why you're there.
When I see a person come into a diner with a hat & sunglasses on, I assume they're there to rob the place
There's no other reason a person should have a hat on inside a restaurant.

 

[fhm555]

The sporran.

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Ahhhh, now I understand. Purse and package in a single glance so the ladies don't get caught staring for too long.

 

[BurnOut]

Not a "manpurse", that's a modern take on the sporran.

I wear kilts fairly often. Usually from UtiliKilt. They're super comfortable.

Oh, and edit:


Please don't. Enough folk run around saying that and being dumb... don't need yet another. Just get a kilt and wear it if you want

I've been wanting a utilikilt for quite a while now. I will have no problem wearing it onstage either. A professional seamstress who I am letting borrow a very nice acoustic guitar long term is supposed to return the favor by making me some utilikilts. Can't wait, I want them already/now. No Celtic involved here just want a couple utilikilts.

 

[Selta]

I've been wanting a utilikilt for quite a while now. I will have no problem wearing it onstage either. A professional seamstress who I am letting borrow a very nice acoustic guitar long term is supposed to return the favor by making me some utilikilts. Can't wait, I want them already/now. No Celtic involved here just want a couple utilikilts.

Mine are all from Utilikilts We Sell Freedom! Utilikilts - their shop isn't terribly far from my house, so I just go there, try things on, BS with the guys and gals in the shop, and walk out with a kilt. I have a couple of one-offs from them

 

[BurnOut]

Mine are all from Utilikilts We Sell Freedom! Utilikilts - their shop isn't terribly far from my house, so I just go there, try things on, BS with the guys and gals in the shop, and walk out with a kilt. I have a couple of one-offs from them

Wanted one ever since I first saw em. I don't think they even had a shop yet then. Was selling em in a street type market before they got rolling.

 

[Downunderwonder]

At my high school juniors HAD to wear shorts. We weren't too happy about that in the winter with frost on the ground. Shorts were optional for seniors. In the final year we had optional mufti but with a very dorky dresscode. That included the kiwi classic that would make certain members' heads explode ''walk shorts''.Invalid Link Removed

 

[Downunderwonder]

I dont know about the ''dare to be different''. That shorts and walk socks thing was all the rage for the older gent so that was proscribed for us seniors also, being soon to join the working world.

 

[delta7fred]

At the school I attended (11 to 16 years) the boys had to wear shorts for the first 2 years, we hated it.

How times have changed.

Edit - It will soon be a non-issue because the weather will revert back to being typically British and we will probably not have another heat wave for a decade or two.

 

[two fingers]

I am all for uniforms. My girls have to wear them. But all our school system means by "uniform" is this.
1) Solid black, white, purple or blue collared shirt with no brand logo or graphics.
2) Solid blue or tan pants shorts or skirt at least knew length with no brand logo or graphics.
3) Coats worn outside can have brand and/or graphic logos but all coats or sweaters worn inside must be solid black, white, blue or purple with no brand logo or graphics.
4) Shirts tucked in for boys.

It's great! You wouldn't believe how much less class division there is based on many if the usual socio-economic factors. You can't really tell which kids are rich or poor for the most part. So they all hang out together. My oldest recently had a birthday party away from school. Her friends come from all kinds of backgrounds. That wasn't much the case when I was in school in the 70s and 80s. This is a public school, by the way.

Also, you act differently when you are in a uniform of some sort most of the time. My ex father-in-law had anger management issue. He was a wrestling coach. He would get kicked out of matches all the time. He went to a "shrink". She told him to wear a suit and tie and pay the receptionist on the way out. Sure enough, he went from a Nike warm-up suit at matches to wearing a suit and tie. He never flipped out at a match again. The "discipline problems" my daughter tells me about at her school (K-8) are just little things for the most part.

Shorts at school? Fine.

Shorts on stage? Still bad. On stage they are gateway clothes. Next thing you know you'll be wearing that stupid backward Kangol hat and sandles while reading from a music stand! Nothing rock n roll about that.

 

[mapleglo]

This is one of my favorite things about the Renaissance Fair. Men in kilts. Show those legs, guys!

 

[petrus61]

Please forgive my fashion faux pas. I was modeling a well-known rock hero but evidently miscalculated.
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Was that Lemmys Wille Nelson phase or Willie Nelsons Lemmy phase?

 

[5StringBlues]

Lemmy Dukes. Ew.

 

[ONYX]

 

[bholder]

manpurse

It's called a "Sporran" in this case.

 

[fingerguy]

This falls into you don't have to follow what others do. I will not partake in the wearing of a skirt.

 

[sissy kathy]

My dad, brother and I. Don't call it a skirt! Warriors wore them.

No, it's a skirt, a kilt was one piece of fabric three or four meters long that was wrapped around your body and over a shoulder and held in place with a pin. Modern kilts are skirts with a different name so men won't feel feminized. Which actually makes no sense at all sense pants didn't get introduced to the western world until the Romans tangled with the cavalrymen of eastern Europe and adopted their clothing (pants) for equestrian activities.

 

[FingerDub]

No, it's a skirt, a kilt was one piece of fabric three or four meters long that was wrapped around your body and over a shoulder and held in place with a pin. Modern kilts are skirts with a different name so men won't feel feminized. Which actually makes no sense at all sense pants didn't get introduced to the western world until the Romans tangled with the cavalrymen of eastern Europe and adopted their clothing (pants) for equestrian activities.

You are describing a toga, not a kilt.

 

[sissy kathy]

You are describing a toga, not a kilt.

They are one and the same. Like trousers, pantaloons, slacks, or pants.
Kilt - Wikipedia
History[edit]
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The kilt first appeared as the great kilt, the breacan or belted plaid, during the 16th century, and is Gaelic in origin. The filleadh mòr or great kilt was a full-length garment whose upper half could be worn as a cloak draped over the shoulder, or brought up over the head. A version of the filleadh beag (philibeg), or small kilt (also known as the walking kilt), similar to the modern kilt was invented by an English Quaker from Lancashire named Thomas Rawlinson some time in the 1720s. He felt that the belted plaid was "cumbrous and unwieldy", and his solution was to separate the skirt and convert it into a distinct garment with pleats already sewn, which he himself began wearing.[2] His associate, Iain MacDonnell, chief of the MacDonnells of Inverness, also began wearing it, and when the clansmen the two employed in logging, charcoal manufacture and iron smelting saw their chief wearing the new apparel, they soon followed suit. From there its use spread "in the shortest space" amongst the Highlanders, and even amongst some of the Northern Lowlanders.[3] It has been suggested there is evidence that the philibeg with unsewn pleats was worn from the 1690s.[4]

 

[DirtDog]

Wow. It was a balmy 26C (79F) with moderate humidity at its worst in Exeter this week. Harsh conditions.

 

[GKon]

When I used to work in an office environment, I often though how different dress codes were for women compared to men. They could wear skirts, showing their legs, sleeveless tops, showing their arms, a scooped style collar, that showed some chest, and, at least at my various jobs, opened toed and open heeled shoes.

I'm not talking mini skirts, or super cleavage tops, or flip flops, but still, much more of their body could be exposed.

As a man, if I wore anything that showed my legs (shorts), a sleeveless shirt, or a shirt with a V neck with no under shirt under it, or a pair of sandals, I would be sent home for being dressed inappropriately.

Definitely a double standard.