I can wear a dress to work and nobody criticizes me. I’d be really sad if I had to wear pants all the time, they’re just not as comfortable. Let’s normalize pretty dresses for dudes!

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    Agreed, 100%. I grew up in a hot area and worked in offices where long pants were the standard. I was always jealous that ladies could get all that ventilation and I was stuck with boiler pipes on my legs.

    • @[email protected]
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      This. Not Scottish, but I wear a kilt whole summer everywhere. Fortunately our company does not have a dress code at the office.

  • @[email protected]
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    A friend has a degree in fashion design and her senior project was a clothing line that you ordered by measurement instead of men’s/women’s sizing so it was supposed to fit a person not a gender.

  • Krakatoa
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    I guess the closest we got are priestly robes and kilts then.

  • @[email protected]
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    I’m all in favor of this. Now we just have to get everyone else on board. And like others have said, find dresses that actually look good on men. I (m) have been trying out dresses for a while and finding something that looks good on me is a challenge.

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    Some workmates and I petitioned our boss for the return of 70’s office shorts over the course of one hot summer, to no avail.

    • @[email protected]
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      There were so many adventurous men’s fashions in the 70s - I like watching old shows like Columbo partly because of that. It feels like we lost a lot going into the 80s and beyond in that respect - I’m glad to see men trying more diverse clothing now.

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        Oh man I wish, I was stuck in shoe length cotton blend for three years of my life and I dreaded February coming around

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      Those are some ridiculously short shorts, especially on the left. How is he not hanging out the bottom?

      • Chris
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        Don’t get me started on shorts. Modern shorts which go down to the knee - what’s the point?!

    • Rob T Firefly
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      Those only work if you also have the 1970s sexual-predator combover and/or pornstache as well as a The Mask necktie.

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    It already exists and is called a sarong. That is a traditional Sri Lankan dress for males that slowly went away after western colonization. Bonus fun fact: Arthur C. Clarke used to rock this style.

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      India wears it all; be it dhoti, lungi, or the mundu. And we wear both the lungi (aka sarong) and the mundu (the unstitched sarong) at half-mast with full pride, never mind our thunder thighs and skinny legs.

      Now if only someone could take away the rice belly and the mosquitoes, both women and men would be happier.

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        That’s a vetti, yes? There’s a tiny difference in that a vetti is an open cloth whereas a sarong’s ends are sewed together. So a sarong is a closed loop.

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          I’m pretty sure the idea of just making a tube and wearing that must be pretty universal.

          It’s really versatile, after all.

          Unfortunately for people who want to (or must) present European male our version is the peplos, which is thought of as strictly female.

  • FizzlePopBerryTwist
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    One of my airbnb guests wears a kilt all summer. He says he is surprised more people don’t because it is a lot cooler.

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      I know a couple people who wear kilts (I think one introduced it to the other).

      I know from wearing towels and robes that I would enjoy a kilt. Pants are great but they are less comfortable in the heat of the summer.

      I don’t really care for shorts since then I have to worry about matching socks.

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        Why would matching socks be an issue with shorts but not kilts? Also, have you considered wearing sandals or just buy a dozen of identical pairs of socks?

        • trainsaresexy
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          Lol because my dumbass didn’t add up that a kilt also exposes my mismatched socks.

          Problem is I have a wool sock interest, so they’re so expensive. My next batch of socks will be fruit of the loom 12pack though. I actually dumped all my socks out yesterday to take inventory.

          I wear sandles but I find that I need to clean them all the time so they don’t smell like feet.

  • kubok
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    A few years ago, back in the Netherlands, the male bus drivers of a certain public transportation company were forced to wear long pants by their ‘managers’. Their female colleagues had a more comfortable uniform with a skirt. As a protest, a number of male bus drivers started borrowing the uniforms of their femaile colleagues. HR gave in. Good.

  • @[email protected]
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    Nah no pity here, we got pockets best thing in the world you should probably feel more envious really