How to Express Fashion Freedom

Miniskirts do not change your gender, nor do heels or hose. Wigs can enhance your appearance and many women used to wear them regularly to go back and forth quickly between short and long hair. Men could use wigs in the same way. Many men are now wearing makeup and in fact use makeup to enhance their masculine look.

I truly believe that everything that women use to enhance their looks can be used by men for the same purpose. In fact heels, hose and skirts were all first worn by men.

Makeup was used by men and perhaps by women to identify themselves as part of a tribe. African tribes still use this same method for identifying tribal members, especially during war. Tribes use hand to hand combat and identifying makeup is a quick way to decide who to kill and who to protect.

One of the biggest issues here is our frame of reference. All of the things that women use today to make themselves more attractive were at first questioned by those who did not understand. Rather than questioning motives we should look at the end result. If a man looks completely feminine then that look is not accomplishing the goal of enhancing the masculine look of a man.

By the same token that man who now looks feminine should not be chastised. Every person is free to look and feel good. Remember that someone you find unattractive, another can find beautiful. Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.

Our efforts for men's fashion freedom should be for all men to have total fashion freedom. There are women today who wear ties. Ties are a non-essential male garment or are they? Ties are a part of a man's suit, yet they serve no purpose. Ties are now a part of women's wear and yet they still serve no purpose.

Some men have said that they want to wear bras. Bras for women serve a purpose and yet is there anything wrong with a man wearing a bra? If men wear ties that serve no purpose, why not bras? By the way I have tried wearing a bra and bras are very comfortable.

Keeping an open mind in a society with so many closed rules is difficult and I do not fault anyone for their misconceptions. I face my own misconceptions every day. What I ask is that everyone use critical thinking as I was taught during my Masters program. Critical thinking involves examining everything from multiple angles. Look at the issue first as you normally would, but do not stop there. Look at the same issue from another point of view.

A great example is a man in a skirt. I look at the issue from the perspective of wanting to wear a comfortable piece of clothing, but it appears to be only for women. I then look at the history of skirts and discover that they were first worn by men. I then look at the history of women and discover that they used to wear only skirts and dresses, but now they wear pants. I then see that men could make a change just like women and open up a new and yet old garment in their wardrobe by adding skirts and eventually dresses.