Monday, May 25, 2009

Lets define: male pantyhose wearer

There are some people out there that when they first get a glimpse of a man wearing tights, nylons, or pantyhose, that he is some sort of transvestite, which actually makes me laugh since men are the first ones on this planet to wear such attire such as tights. That is, out in public. Women were expected to be decent and show hardly any ankle or leg until the women's movement came in at the turn of the century. In some sort of way, I would have liked to have lived in the medieval centuries, when men and tights were all in one package by the buckets full. Watching Romeo & Juliet and other costume movies of around that era brings alot of fancy to the ideas of dress for men. Robin Hood and his merry men were all blessed with the manly art of wearing tights, even as outcasts and wanted men.
So by todays standards, our only true resource is from the superhero genre which translates more into the world of tomorrow than the days of centuries past. For awhile there, it seemed that any sort of male that wanted to wear tights would have to wait for a theater role, or halloween. Must we join a circus to wear tights, I for one am afraid of heights. Must we wait for a local fair, or other occasion to secretly enjoy putting on a pair of tights? Enough already, the time has come for men to regain their sense of manlihood, and not conform to what seemed like a prison of blue jeans. This sort of clothing cannot be a phase or a marketing scam because I have shown interest in this attire for decades before it ever hit the market for men in todays civilization. Therefore it has always been in the back of my head, and wearing in secret gets very tired and boring. This is a liberation for the mens dress design, and I firmly believe it can only get better, and this is here to stay. The days of a male pantyhose wearer is no longer a drag queen, transvestite, or crossdresser, but a man who wishes to dress as a man wearing hose in the styles he wants, and where he wants. This is reclaiming what has belonged to the male species since almost the beginning of time. And if superheroes can wear them, so can I.

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