The German version of Princess Boy? From the Huffington Post:
When it comes to supporting his son’s unconventional wardrobe, Nils Pickert talks the talk and walks the walk.
The German dad explains in Emma magazine that he wears women’s clothes (including nail polish) to help his 5-year-old son feel good about going out in dresses and skirts.
A picture of Pickert and his little boy, sporting matching red clothes — dad in a long skirt, son in a spaghetti-strap dress — has been making the Internet rounds, inspiring enough positive feedback to cancel out a thousand sideways looks and gender marketing fails.
That is taking “dress up” way to far. My boys are two and a half. They like to wear all kinds of shoes and try walking in them, especially if they are too big. They like their sister’s shoes. There is no way I would let them wear pink sparkly sandals out in public or a dress like this guy. And yeah, I have an idea about what constitutes proper male dress in this regard and what is appropriate.
A skirt is not, but a kilt is.
This guy is not the type person who ever helped civilization make any progress. He’s arguing for an established tradition—and arguing against what at present is innovation. But, all that is tradition today started as innovation. He’s the same type who says men can wear kilts but not skirts. Kilts are skirts, they are a particular subset of a master category. Wrapping around, no pleats in front, buckle and pin on right, does not DQ it from being a skirt, all it has to do is hang from the waist (it does) and enclose both legs together in one tube of fabric (it does). He may be interested to know that many hard line church folks maintain that kilts are sinful, that they are also cross-dressing! So while he’s tossing darts at other men for allegedly wearing female clothes, these others are tossing darts at HIM! If men want to have alternative to pants, it HAS to be a kilt? How long would he last as a travel agent if he told men “Scotland is the only permissible destination for you,” while boosting women to go anywhere? How many trouser types are women wearing? Is anyone trying to tell women they should wear only one trouser type, and that it must be based on something from an overseas culture? Modern Greeks, Egyptian Dervishes, Fijian cops, Indian Kathakali, Portuguese Pauliteiros, Spanish Zanco dancers, Bhutanese dancers, Maori men etc., all wear skirts, and none are similar to his tired, worn out, PASSE kilts! Women go to boys and mens departments buying for themselves, we don’t call it crossdressing because you can’t persecute a majority! We need to stop persecuting men! Rome sent men in pants into exile in AD 393 by decree of Theodosius I who also seized their property. Evelyn Bross got arrested by Chicago police in 1943 just for wearing pants in public and the judge ordered her to see a psychiatrist for 6 months! Let everyone—men too–wear what they wish, stop calling it names! Pants came about due to horseback riding! Yes, men can wear any type skirt they wish, disregard these nonsensical, anti-self determination demands that it be limited to this guy’s particular ethnic culture. He isn’t the draft board and he can’t shanghai you into wearing his particular skirt, which disgracefully, he refuses to admit that’s what it is, even Webster’s dictionary says kilts are skirts. Buy a skirt on EBAY (“intended for a female”) and wear it, costs way less than a kilt or those very drab and boring looking Utilikilts. Time to progress beyond “the thin edge of the wedge,” and bring the whole camel (bra and female impersonation not included) into the tent. The dress worn by the king’s son in the tower scene in Braveheart looks very different that this worn-out kilt biz. Men need variety too, don’t try to confine us to one changeless style.