skirts for men?

[Bledlow]

When I were a lad, I HAD to wear shorts. All year round - it was Teh Roolz.

I remember that. Ah, the 1960s.

[jsabine]

When I were a lad, I HAD to wear shorts. All year round - it was Teh Roolz.

I remember that. Ah, the 1960s.

1980s for me.

In Edinburgh, where it occasionally gets chilly.

[MikeFromLFE]

Skirts are no good if the top of your thighs rub together, as with many women. Then you very quickly end up with a rash, especially if you are sweating because it is warm.

I'm 48 years old. Nobody has ever made me aware of this before.  This place is a constant education.

I'm a bit older than you - and I too consider myself educated.
Is this potential for rash the whole point of tights?


Tapatalk puts this signature here, not me!

[Auntie Helen]

That's why lots of women, including me, wear leggings in the summer. Cooler and cover the legs. Tights aren't very comfortable for me as I am tall (they tend to be for shorter people) but I guess they would help.

[Wowbagger]

I remember (I think) the first time I wore long trousers to school. I was about 12 I think. If that is the case, then I must have worn shorts throughout the winter of '62-63. The snowdrifts which formed in late December were still there in March. It's possible I may have been given special dispensation to wear long trousers to school throughout this period, but if I possessed any they would have been in denim, so I think I did wear shorts throughout that period. Chillblained knees seemed to be a permanent feature of winters in my childhood.

[Gattopardo]

Unisex skirts....isn't all clothing unisex?

[numbnuts]

Unisex skirts....isn't all clothing unisex?

No a bra....Oh hang in a minute 

[Bledlow]

I saw someone striding along Broad Street the other day, unfettered breasts bouncing in time with each step. He could have done with a bra.

[arabella]

hmm.  leaving aside tights which don't seem to exist in child-size without the crotch reaching down to the knee, I've always imagined that knee length shorts and long socks are considerably warmer and less drafty than skirts and knee length socks.
btw I don't find tights etc any better as regards chafing than bare thighs.  Nor tight trousers.  Seeing as I manage to wear lycra (running) shorts for a 200/300/400/600/etc audax it's the walking not the fabric.   
Meanwhile I don't see why the schools don't just take their existing uniform and make unisex, adding or omitting shorts as they wish depending on whether girls in shorts is OK too etc..

[Kim]

Meanwhile I don't see why the schools don't just take their existing uniform and make unisex, adding or omitting shorts as they wish depending on whether girls in shorts is OK too etc..

Common sense rarely survives an encounter with school uniform policy.

[Charlotte]

...isn't all clothing unisex?

It ought to be.  That is to say, when it's stinking hot on a day like today, I feel properly sorry for officedrone salarymen who are obliged to wear suit trousers, shoes and a collared shirt when the smart option is to waft about in a dress and sandals.  That doesn't seem entirely fair and I'm pretty sure that if society didn't stigmatize men who wear dresses the way that it does, a great many chaps would go for the unbifurcated* option.


*Just using that word has made me think of Bards.  Who remembers Bards?

[Basil]

*Just using that word has made me think of Bards.  Who remembers Bards?

B&W.  Strange chap.

[SteveC]

I remember him.
We share given names (both of them and in the same order).

[ian]

...isn't all clothing unisex?

It ought to be.  That is to say, when it's stinking hot on a day like today, I feel properly sorry for officedrone salarymen who are obliged to wear suit trousers, shoes and a collared shirt when the smart option is to waft about in a dress and sandals.  That doesn't seem entirely fair and I'm pretty sure that if society didn't stigmatize men who wear dresses the way that it does, a great many chaps would go for the unbifurcated* option.


*Just using that word has made me think of Bards.  Who remembers Bards?

Every summer someone sends a missive around the mothership about 'sensible dress' which for some reason has it in for men in shorts.

I confess that I ignore it. I did once compile a list of people who might complain if I didn't bother to change into trousers and it wasn't very long and there was no on it whose opinion I gave a shit about. I suspect that if someone did gripe, I would indeed wear a sensible dress instead.

That said, my great lab buddy back in my days of gonzo genetical science was German chap who specialised in skin-tight Teutonically short short shorts. Him in those wasn't a picture you could unsee. We did try an intervention along the lines of all the girls in the lab can see your cock and they've made it clear that the more you leave to the imagination, the easier it is for them not to imagine it. But they are very comfortable, said he. Not for us, said we.

[Chris S]

I'm sure I've used this anecdote elsewhere on this 'ere forum.

Back in the 90s, I was a contractor at a Well Known Bank in That London. We were a key beta site for Windows NT, and we rated a visit from a L33t squad from Microsoft to help us with some issues.

They turned up, during a typical London heatwave of 30c highs, really smart in short-sleeve shirts, loose ties, and smart shorts (complete with crease). They thought it HILARIOUS that we were duty bound to our heavy wool suits, sweating it out in inadequately air-con'd server rooms.