Quote Originally Posted by Avana View Post
I live in nyc and see just about everything, but i've never seen this.

must be a midwest anglo/scottish thing?
I don't deny that the vast majority of alpha male guys I've seen in kilts have been at celtic festivals and rock concerts, yes. Guess what though, that's where I first started publicly wearing kilts as well, before eventually moving on to other skirts. I think too it's even more of a pacific northwest type thing, as that's where Utilikilts is based out of and has somewhat of a following.


usually the only men i see in skirts are super femme gay queens, androgynous queer artsy hipster boys, or masculine yet fastidious gay men more of a marc jacobs style skirt.
Seems you're missing the point here, which is, you do see men in skirts. I was never arguing the case that all men in skirts need be super masculine, I'm certainly not. You named three different types of men in skirts here. Regardless of their sexuality, can we agree that these groups of men were not wearing skirts ten years ago? Even if you've only seen a handful or less, is that not still a significant change in the cultural landscape of male garments? Taking away the narrow focus on the "skirt" aspect, in general would all of these groups not be considered as paving the way for a broader approach to what constitutes a "male" in today's society?

i don't see the point of searching for men with kilts - it's more meaningful to search for "men" on google and count the number of pages until you find one in a skirt
Is it more meaningful? I guess it would be if the point was about how mainstream skirts for men are or aren't, but it wasn't. The point was, Sarah mentioned a specific type of man, the overly aggressive masculine man, and said she can't imagine him wearing a skirt, ever. I then used the specific example of the Utilikilt as a brand that markets to and appeals to exactly that kind of man.

However, just for the heck of it, I decided to do this search you recommended. It was the last photo on page 6, two guys in kilts. and that's mostly because there were quite a bit of X-Men pictures, mostly wolverine, and also a lot of photos of the cast of Mad Men on the previous pages. It should be noted however that on the very first page were two different photos of men wearing noticeable makeup.