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!

  • @TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    Yea, but let’s design some to work on male bodies. Dresses are generally built for female body shapes, and rely on curves most guys just don’t have in order to complete the shape - so we end up looking like Graveyard Barbie in them.

    Guys tend to be a lot more oblong, and the overall design would need a rethink in order to actively work with that shape, instead of unsuccessfully trying to compensate for it.

    No, I don’t know how to do this.

    • Schrodinger's Dinger
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      I was a slutty nun for Halloween and looking cute in a skirt is definitely possible, but man does it take a lot of work to find anything that fits decently. Dresses are simply impossible to find of course because, as you said, the shape is not at all made for men.

      Also that outfit made me want to go full f1nn5ter and dress up in feminine clothes all the time lol. It’s so much fun! I’m so down for people to figure out how to make the shape work for masculine body shapes.

    • pragmakist
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      My first thought when I read op was that trousers are a relative new development.

      The Romans made fun of the Gauls for wearing them.

      So if you decide to wear traditional Roman dress, trousers shouldn’t be included.

      But it’s still designed for men.

      • Pretty cool how the Romans just took a good idea from a more primitive culture. Guess there wasn’t anyone around to scream about cultural appropriation.

        • pragmakist
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          The Romans calling the Gauls primitive is a bit like the British calling the Americans primitive.

          True, but for Gods sake don’t look in the mirror.

          • I Cast Fist
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            Took me a while to figure you were referring to native americans, not the current 'muricans

            • pragmakist
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              Wait, what? No!

              Yeah, well, I’m sorry, but yes viewing the current Merkins as stupidly violent savages is a thing on this side of the Atlantic.

              We Europeans on the other hand would never attack someone without reason.

              We’ve always had reasons, usually some variation of wanting their possesion for ourselves.

              And warning: This post contains sarcasm.

    • Snafu
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      Dudes in parts of Africa and the Middle East have already got it figured out. Djellabas look fantastic on most men. I’d love to see more people wearing them.

    • Xariphon
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      More like Robes than Dresses, maybe? Could start with some Indian or Middle Eastern fashions as a starting point…

    • @SolarNialamide@lemmy.world
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      It wouldn’t be that hard, I think. Just make it more square on top and drop the accentuating part from the waist to either halfway between the belly button and hips or all the way to the hips. Or you could raise it to chest height and have a long, straight bottom part, more robe-ish.

    • @Landrin201@lemmy.ml
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      A lot of Muslim men wear what appear to me to be long white skirts, especially in the middle east and north Africa where wearing a flowing, loose garment that reflects lots of light is a practical measure for staying cool. I think it’s called a Kandora?

      My point is that such garments DO exist, they just aren’t common in the west because of western views of male gender norms and Islam.

  • Xariphon
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    Honestly, one thing I hate about being biologically male is that men’s clothes all look so goddamn generic.

    Oh, you’re wearing a suit. It’s. A suit. I guess. They all look the same.

    You’re wearing jeans. And a t-shirt. And they all look basically the same.

    Khakis and a polo? You madlad. Well, you and everybody else at the country club. Who all look exactly the fucking same.

    The thing that really gets me is, it didn’t used to be this way. You look at pictures of people in paintings and whatnot and men had some wild shit going on. There was variety, if somewhat less, even into the early 20th. But… seriously tell me if I’m wrong here… it feels like we got to WWII and men’s fashion just stopped. Like an entire generation of men put on uniforms and eighty years later we still haven’t completely taken them off.

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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.

  • Hillock
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    As a man I never considered pants to be uncomfortable. They are the perfect mix of range of motion, hiding the private parts. and support. Dresses, skirts, and robes seem like a nightmare to wear. You either restrict your range of motion or have to constantly worry about showing your underwear. And I would wear boxer briefs underneath by choice anyhow, so I still end up wearing pants.

    I think the bigger issue is that most of us men are too lazy to look for different kinds of pants and end up wearing the same stuff year-round. Which can indeed become uncomfortable due to changes in temperature. But that issue wouldn’t be fixed by having access to dresses or robes. As again, some would either be too cold or too hot.

  • @Today@lemmy.world
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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.

  • @wolre@lemmy.world
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    Completely agree. While both pants and dresses have their pros and cons, it should be everybody’s own choice which one they want to wear. I hope that this is something that will change over time.

  • @Quasar@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    A few summers ago I brought up the idea that men should be allowed to wear shorts to the office if women can wear dresses and my boss literally laughed in my face. We work in a small-ish office and are not client facing so who tf cares what we wear? A while later they made a whole big deal about us being allowed to wear jeans to the office ever day (vs only on Fridays) you could hear a pin drop at the staff meeting. It was painful but satisfying to watch. Fuck those assholes…

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    At least if men wore more skirts and dresses then manufacturers would add pockets.