Here's another question to throw in the mix: ENTIRELY ANECDOTALLY, I feel like lately (last few years, maybe post-lockdown?) I've been seeing *fewer* men* in skirts than I did before. Does anyone else perceive that shift? Anyone have theories about what's going on here?
*people who I know to be men or people I perceive to be men, as imperfect as this is Cheers, Maia (in Brooklyn) -- Maia McCormick (she/her) 917.279.8194 On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 6:26 PM Mary Collins via Contra Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > Louise, > > dresses? I believe that I've seen some hetero men, with children, in > diamond drop earrings and dresses, I could be mis reading them too.... > > I really don't care except they often look WAAAAY better than me! > lol....dance with who comes at you no matter how they appear! > > Mary > "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who > couldn't hear the music." - Nietzsche > > “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass ... it's about learning > to dance in the rain!” ~ unknown > > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 6:12 PM Louise Siddons <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thank you to everyone replying! >> >> Re: twirly skirts have been around for a long time: for me, “the turn of >> the 21st century” encompasses the 1990s (which is 35 years ago, which may >> or may not feel to any of us like “many many years” ago but objectively >> speaking is before many of the people in the contra community were born :) >> >> Part of what I want to establish is that this is not a new phenomenon — >> even though it hasn’t been systematically documented as far as I (and fwiw, >> a colleague of mine who is an expert in men’s and queer men’s fashion >> history) know. >> >> For me, all-gender contra skirts are interesting partly because they >> appear to separate the garment from its gendered connotations quite >> successfully — I don’t think most contra dancers these days would look at a >> male-bodied dancer wearing a skirt and say “ah, they are being effeminate”. >> >> Dresses, though, are a curious subcategory in this regard, as I would say >> that in my dance communities they are still used to signpost queerness. >> >> Louise. >> >> On 11 Sep 2024, at 22:50, Mary Collins <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> skirts for all genders have been around for many many years now! >> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ > Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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