What do you think when you spot men wearing skirts? That\nthey must be in costume? That they\u2019re probably transsexual? That they\u2019re in\ndrag? In some cases, a man wearing is a skirt is none of the above. Here are\nsome reasons you might spot a man in a dress or skirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the Oscars, actor Billy Porter wore a black velvet tuxedo\ndress \u201cto challenge traditional ideals of men\u2019s fashion.\u201d But women wear pants\nall the time and no one bats an eye. So why is a man in a dress or skirt still\nturning our heads?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How quickly we\u2019ve forgotten that Greek and Roman men used to\nwear robes and togas. For many soldiers, pants were only worn when they needed\nto avoid chafing while horseback riding or to keep warm during colder months.\nThe robes and togas were preferred by men, not just for comfort, but because\nthey allowed men to show off their legs, which were believed to represent\nstrength and virility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scottish kilts are one of the few historical remnants of\nmen\u2019s \u201cskirts\u201d that are still worn today. Although they were worn in battle,\ntoday they are sometimes worn on a typical day or with a full ensemble to\nfancier events. Full-dress kilts can cost thousands of dollars when full adorned\nwith jackets, pins, belts, shoes and a sporran (the pouch that serves as a\npurse or pocket).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Japan, men wore kimonos and hakamas. Hakamas (which come\ndivided, like pants, or undivided, like a skirt) used to be required apparel\nfor men. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In some tropical regions, men still wear pieces that look\nlike skirts. In Samoan culture, for example, men wear an ie lavalava, which is\nsimilar to a sarong. It\u2019s a piece of fabric tied around the waist. Samoan men\nalso wear ie faitagas, which are like ie lavalavas but with thicker fabric.\nThese are often worn with ties, flip flops and button-up shirts that are tucked\nin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Religious reasons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Catholic priests have worn a cassock or long robe, to\ndistinguish them from the laity. Buddhist monks wear a robe to show \u201cuniformity\nof intention.\u201d (Robes were often yellow or orange because they were dyed using\nsaffron or turmeric.) Jain monks often wear plain white robes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What do you think when you spot men wearing skirts? That they must be in costume? That they\u2019re probably transsexual? That they\u2019re in drag? In some cases, a man wearing is a skirt is none of the above. Here are some reasons you might spot a man in a dress or skirt. Societal reasons; challenging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[691],"tags":[815,816,848,819],"class_list":["post-13394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion","tag-clothing","tag-fashion","tag-mens-wear","tag-wardrobe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}