OK people, what do you think about this?

I went to the fashion section in the New York Times recently and found this:





I do not know if this is a new "metrosexual" thing (I am not one, whatever it is) but isn't this kind of bending the gender a little bit?

It seems like it was taken from the Samoans who wear "lavalava". However, it is alright to wear them since it is a part of their culture. The same is for the scots.

Here is the article:

Male Skirts
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In the Land of the Free, Who Wears the Skirts?
By HERBERT MUSCHAMP

ANDREW BOLTON knows how to put across the fluctuating relationship between difference and similarity, and what more can you ask for? The young British curator has woven a rich tapestry of a show from a theme that promises little more than wan provocation. Entitled "Bravehearts: Men in Skirts," the exhibition is this season's offering at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, where Mr. Bolton is associate curator. You may go for the legs. You'll stay for the plaids.

A vastly enlarged version of a show presented in 2002 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, "Bravehearts" will undo the considerable damage Prince Charles has inflicted on the cause of kilts. Of the 120 fiberglass mannequins on display, not one has knobby knees. I checked. They are all well-toned.

I prefer my man in levi's anyday!

Same with men's purses.

It just doesn't work.

does this mean you guys will have to start shaving your legs and wearing panty hose? Now that is something I would like to see! Those long skirts are nice. If I was a guy I would go for the long skirts since I long ago stopped with the short skirts, panty hose and heels myself. Don't let the fashion folks do this to you! I like my guys in jeans.

I don't think I could ever get used to men wearing skirts. I don't think you'll be seeing these things around for too long.

Samouri, Scots, Romans, etc.
Skirts are cooler in warmer weather.

long denim skirts is quite another.

wear skirts and women WOULD wear pants...just look at the physicality of it all??? DUH!!!

people's resistance to men wearing skirts, I'd like to point out that there was a time when it was considered "kind of bending the gender a little bit" for women to wear pants.

They just dont look right. Now if toga's ever came into style, I might think about it.

like so much of "high fashion" it just looks stupid.. i see these idiotic designers torturing models with all kinds of stupid crap and i just have to laugh.. look!! a dress made out of popcorn!! how fashionable!

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I'd wear one if I didn't have such lousy legs...the most girly outfit I'd own, and I'd be in drag! :) There's nothing wrong with "gender-bending," BTW; I am always cross-dressed, and cisgenderism sucks anyway.

I like men in skirts (I'm an SCA member), and I wish they'd wear 'em more often.