When Harry Styles wore a series of skirts and dresses by Gucci, Harris Reed and Wales Bonner for his cover shoot with American Vogue last November, the internet went (predictably) wild. And though the responses were, on the whole, resoundingly positive, there were a handful of naysayers who weren't so taken with the vibe.
The most prominent of these trolls – let's call a spade an ass – was American author Candace Owens, who wrote in a tweet: “There is no society that can survive without strong men. The East knows this. In the West, the steady feminization of our men at the same time that Marxism is being taught to our children is not a coincidence. It is an outright attack. Bring back manly men.”
Styles was quick to respond, posting a picture of himself on the same platform wearing a frilly baby-blue suit from Palomo Spain and eating a banana, with the caption “bring back manly men”.
Not only was Owens' argument taken directly out of the Dark Ages, when, incidentally, men wearing skirts was totes de rigueur (see portraits of Ethelred The Unready for proof), but it also ignored the extraordinary personal strength Styles demonstrated by being brave enough to wear a frock on the cover of the most important fashion magazine in the world.
And that's before you get to the fact that the very notion of “manliness” is a toxic societal construct that contributes to the fact more men below the age of 49 die by suicide every year than any of other single cause.
Louis Vuitton AW21.
This season, the world's most prominent menswear designers have jumped to the defence of Styles and fabulous leg-bearing men the world over by putting skirts, kilts, tunics and tubular tabards at the centre of their AW21 collections.
At Louis Vuitton, Virgil Abloh sent out a series of models wearing A-line kilted skirts over trousers, while at JW Anderson, pleated frocks for men rubbed hems with oversized jodhpurs. At Dries Van Noten and Wales Bonner, oversized smock shirts were worn in the style of column tunics and at Homme Plissé Issey Miyake, trousers were cut so wide they did the job of maxi dresses.
The truth is, after all, that if any man wants to wear a skirt, dress, kilt or tunic in 2021 then he should be absolutely free to do so. And it's a fact many of the former One Directioner's red carpet contemporaries are only too willing to attest.
JW Anderson AW21
Actor Tommy Dorfman, for instance, posted a picture of himself only this morning wearing a cobalt-blue chiffon frock, to the tune of 50,000 likes on Instagram. Then, of course, there's Sam Smith, who regularly rocks a dress or two, Billy Porter, who loves a good red carpet gown, Daniel Levy, who was recently papped in a Thom Browne kilt, and Ezra Miller, who set the tone in 2018 by wearing a floor-length padded Moncler gown to the Fantastic Beasts premier.
So if the aforementioned leading men are bold enough to go for it with a skirt or two (and the world's menswear designers are endorsing it too) then so should you be. Not least because they're really comfortable and, of course, deliciously breezy. Here are the best to buy right now.
1. Gucci
2. Rick Owens
3. Thom Browne
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