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Why only the Scots and the Arabs embrace this is beyond me. It does seem to be the association with the female that keeps men from wearing them. Which is telling. Sometimes I don't think men like women very much.
It's been said that garments like kilts are better for men's reproductive health, and that wearing tight pants leads to things like low sperm count. Maybe the ancient Greeks were onto something when they viewed pants as uncivilized garments...
Ironically, I'm wearing a rather tight pair of jeans at the moment, and I could never get used to the feeling of wearing boxers instead of briefs. I'm just used to having support.
Men are wearing such tight pants these days I cant imagine how they get into them.
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30 Jan 2015, 6:54 pm
I suppose our basic high school unofficial "uniform" from the 70's was gender neutral clothing. Everybody wore Levi's jeans, (501's when they became popular) band tshirts or band baseball jerseys, and Nike tennis shoes. Oddly enough, I still see this basic trend in high school kids. I have seen emo boys wearing girl skinny jeans. I don't think boys look right in skinny jeans at all.
I also remember in the 90's when it was a trend over in Southside in Birmingham for boys to wear skirts. I saw a few do it and it looks weird beyond belief. They wore big, colorful gypsy style skirts that were in style then. Kilts look good and the long Arab style robes look good, but women's skirts look ridiculous on men unless they are going all out and dressing as women. Also, priests wear cassocks and monks wear long robes.
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I agree about men in minis. I think that's hot.
In the late 90's I did an article about Muslim women in America. There had recently been an influx of them in Birmingham and I interviewed several women about their lives, the rules and restrictions of Islam and their customs, and I borrowed the clothing from them and wore it for a week. I prayed five times a day and did the ablutions beforehand as well. I was Catholic so I said my own prayers but I said them at the times the Muslims were supposed to and I got down on my knees to do so. I wore the clothing out whenever I left the house and covered whenever any man who wasn't my husband or kids came to the house.
One of the things I wore was a veil. It covered my face entirely except for my eyes. Nobody could see my face at all, except for my eyes and I noticed that people didn't look at me really. Nobody made eye contact with me, and eye contact isn't a problem for me or anything. People didn't know I was American and white they assumed I was foreign and Arab or Persian, etc, so I didn't feel funny wearing it like I probably would if I wore a sari out, and I've always wanted to wear a sari. I sort of enjoyed wearing the Muslim clothing, but I don't think I would like it if I had to wear it.
As for the men in the short skirts in Troy, are you talking about those Roman soldier uniforms? Don't forget about togas too. And also in Indonesia, men wear a sarong.
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Why only the Scots and the Arabs embrace this is beyond me. It does seem to be the association with the female that keeps men from wearing them. Which is telling. Sometimes I don't think men like women very much.
It's been said that garments like kilts are better for men's reproductive health, and that wearing tight pants leads to things like low sperm count. Maybe the ancient Greeks were onto something when they viewed pants as uncivilized garments...
Ironically, I'm wearing a rather tight pair of jeans at the moment, and I could never get used to the feeling of wearing boxers instead of briefs. I'm just used to having support.
Men are wearing such tight pants these days I cant imagine how they get into them.
A man was sitting on a park bench looking at people as they passed when one woman walked up wearing the tights pants he had ever seen. He just had to ask, "How does someone get into those pants?" She replied, "Well, you can start by buying me a martini."
31 Jan 2015, 3:07 am
By the way, it is interesting how leotards are thought of as women's wear when they were actually created for men.
For what it's worth, I have a pair of men's leotards from when I took ballet classes. Note that in ballet, women wear their leotards over the tights while men wear tights over the leotards.
For example:
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