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[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

I wish it were acceptable for men to wear bright dresses.

I said that to my wife a few months ago, so she said “why don’t you try on some of mine?”

So yeah, I now have few dresses I wear around the house. They’re great. Nice and floaty.

[–] resonate6279@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Kilts are the answer.

I'm very close to getting one from here

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 weeks ago

All power to kilt wearers, but I feel that it’s an inherently different thing. It’s a specifically gendered garment, a ruggedised, masculinised form of skirt that it’s acceptable for some men to wear. Cool though they are, they’re not as fun and floaty as a light skirt and a pretty dress.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not me, I hear dresses can be drafty.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 weeks ago

Depends on where you are, init. It was bloody glorious during the summer, walking downstairs, gathering a ball of cool air in the skirt. When it gets cold, wear leggings.

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Get a kilt for the out and about look, my good fellow. While wearing one will draw some looks, it is far more acceptable and good-looking and practical than an ill-fitting woman's dress.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, dresses are pretty comfortable. I did a couple of things in high school that I guess you could consider drag, except I was playing this old lady character I invented that would ramble on and on about very little in a Harvey Firestein voice because she also chain smoked.

Anyway, I wore dresses for that. They were quite comfy. It would be awesome if a man could wear a formal dress to a formal occasion and not get stares (unless the stares were at that amazing dress he's wearing).

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don’t even see it as drag, because I’m not dressing as a woman. I’m a guy wearing a dress, not a guy trying to be a woman.

Because when you really stop think about it, it makes no sense that clothes should be gendered. What is inherently ‘female’ about a dress, beyond the expectation that only women should wear them. I mentioned that somewhere on here before, to which one guy mentioned that swinging dicks might be an issue, and right, two things: 1) underwear exists, and 2) I don’t know about anyone else, but my dick doesn’t swing that low. Perhaps I’m unlucky.

But yeah, the older I get the less sense it makes that we must dress in a specific way based on what genitals we have.

I kinda just want to feel like my clothes look pretty sometimes. Women can dress masculine with barely a mention, so why can’t I dress feminine sometimes?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest it was drag. I just was suggesting that's what you could have called the times I wore a dress.

It shouldn't be drag. It should just be normalized.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 6 points 3 weeks ago

It’s cool, I wasn’t being pissy.

But yeah, exactly that.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

That's what I told the judge - Your Honor, I wasn't impersonating an officer, I just look good in a uniform!