Monday, November 29, 2010

Nutcracker Prince

While watching the live stage show of The Nutcracker, I noticed this one thing, Besides the usual, I noticed how charasmatic men in ballet tights dance on stage. The women, of course, give excellent performances as the grand dame of ballet, but men pour out attitude. Either of joy, struggle, love, conquest, and happiness. The faces of the men tell me they are not taking a back seat to what the culture world defines as female interest in the world of ballet. I mean, tell those beer drinking butch boys back home that ballet, and specifically men in ballet tights do not make the back drop of female dancers. Instead, they are the stars who carry the performance every bit as much, if not more, than the female counterparts. In many ways, they are the Superman dancing, flying, parading, twirling on stage in total freedom. Freedom from trousers, pants, and even pant shorts, they glide in harmony to the beat of the music with absolutely nothing in their way but the soft touch of tights material to let them do what they want. They are more than dancers, but athletes that must face ongoing agility that would shame the most vigorous football player. Theirs is not an easy task, but they make it look easy, and yes, even fun!
Not only do men look great in tights with defined bodies, but Im afraid, they also enjoy it, and it shows!

Been there, done that!

I still read how some guys are still coming to terms with "pantyhose for men" situation, and I'm beginning to feel like its an ongoing discussion with no real resolve in the end. The controversy of men putting on a pair of pantyhose is absolutely nothing new, but the recent marketing of men being able to call pantyhose fashion their very own is the fad which has stirred many a topic discussion to begin. The fact remains, men have a new fashion sense to wear what men have worn many centuries ago, and for some reason, this fashion style once lost to men, has been given the dismay of many a critic of its valid return to the men's world. The big question is, why do men need this?
I think, from my perspective, pantyhose for men gives men focus, not just in style, but in appreciating what men appreciated many many years ago with leggings, stockings, and tights to grace the male figure with its woven cloth. The idea that men have been condemned to jeans and trousers is no longer justifiable in its typecast for the modern man. His legs are now speaking out to be heard that men are not second class in the world of fashion, and tights, leggings, nylons, pantyhose, etc. can now play apart of his world, his treasure, of which he has long lost sight of from many centuries ago. Ironically, this fashion has made new fashion sense, which gives it a new dimension for the future, but can appreciate the past in historical value, not repeat performance. Tomorrow is a new era, not just for kids, but for adults, who can wear adult things in public, and call it their own to wear proudly.
Pantyhose is a fashion for men, and to quote from the same era of tights for men, "to be, or not to be, that is the question." To wear, or not to wear, that is the question, for man, as he chooses.
At first many men thought pantyhose for men meant crossdressing, kilts, or even dresses for men, but that is not the case, at all.
The simple way to incorporate pantyhose for men is not change of clothes, but the additon of to those clothes. And on the other hand, men might give special thought as to how nicely his clothes might look, if he bought clothes to accent the pantyhose style such as cargo shorts, and boots. NO, it does not require thought for wearing high heels, which is silly. Pantyhose for men should not make him equate the style with women, but a new discovery for him to wear in his own masculine way to accent his manly clothes. You could just as well get away with it in a flannel shirt, and torn jean shorts, and I bet that is the way it was meant to look! NOT with a dress, or pumps. That's a whole nother ball game.