However, ladies in Burma, and we are talking about her, also flaunt in a similar outfit. And although men's and women's skirts differ both in design and in the way they are worn, they are similar and belong to the same type of clothing. This does not mean at all that this fact somehow affects gender relations in Burma and the skirt acts as an equalizer. Although this is probably partly true.

But it’s not just the skirt! In neighboring Bangladesh, for example, skirt-wearing is also common among men, but the position of women there is completely different. This is striking to anyone who has made just an hour's flight from Muslim Dhaka to Buddhist Rangoon. The streets of the Burmese capital and its numerous markets are full of women. They behave relaxed. Do you want to take a photo with a girl? You are welcome, you can even give me a little hug. Purely symbolically, of course. Local gentlemen won't stab you with a dagger. There is no trace of long scarves and scarves without which a woman in Bangladesh will not go outside. Burmese women do not wear hats at all, unless they work in the fields. Then they put on wide-brimmed reed hats. Thanks to Buddhism, as well as ancient community traditions, women in Burma have never been reclusive; they have enjoyed and continue to enjoy many rights. In this they could be the envy of the fair sex in more than one country in the world.

The best place to discuss this topic is with a Burmese family. I have enough acquaintances in Rangoon, and many invite me to their place. Today I’m going to U Zaw Lin and Do Myint Myint. (“U” means “master”, and “Do” “madam”). The Burmese do not have surnames, but only first names, so when a woman gets married, she remains with her given name. It seems like a small touch, but significant. My friends have been married for ten years and have two daughters. I ask them how they got married, they are embarrassed. Then Zo Lin briefly reports:

My parents were against it, and we had to run away from home and live with distant relatives for some time.
Although in Burma marriages are most often concluded on the advice of parents, such bride kidnapping is also not uncommon. I'm asking:
Who encouraged whom to escape?
Zo Lin glances at Myint Myint, but she doesn’t let her husband open her mouth and begins to speak quickly:
Yes, we both decided so, both. And in general, nothing terrible happened. My parents, having learned about the birth of their granddaughter, forgave us, and now my mother dotes on Zo Lin.

Then I remembered: in Burmese, “son-in-law” is “tame,” which can be translated as “beloved, desired son.” Not a bad idea.
This family lives hard, earning their daily rice by small trade. Spouses do not divide household responsibilities into men's and
women's Zo Lin, when Myint Myint is busy, can cook and do the laundry, and this does not surprise either himself, his neighbors, or even his mother.

What else remains? Burmese women can get divorced at any time, I joke.
Myint Myint takes my words seriously:
That's not the point! We are not going to get divorced. What more!..
I know that divorce is very rare in Burma. With freedom of divorce, this fact seems paradoxical. After all, in the event of a divorce, the wife receives an equal share of the property and can remarry; no one considers her less valuable.

Perhaps the high position of women in Burmese society is due to the special nobility of local men who wear skirts? Alas, the reason here is different, more prosaic. The well-being of many Burmese families rests on the woman. She trades and does some kind of craft, for example, sewing. Well, there’s no need to talk about peasant women: they have enough work in the rice paddies.

Burmese women do not get equal rights for nothing. But they feel confident and independent. In the history of Burma, Queen Shinsopu is known, who single-handedly ruled the state in the 14th century, the female ambassador Daw Khin Kyi, the widow of the architect of independence, General Aung San. And their daughter Daw Aung San Suu Kyi became a legendary person. She is known throughout the world as a stalwart leader of Burma's democratic movement. She spent almost six years under house arrest. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991.

But here’s what’s nice: Burmese women are not at all like avid feminists and respect the male weakness of being, or more precisely, appearing first. My friend Myin Myin, even though it is her hands that hold the family budget, always consults with her husband about any purchase. (Although he knows in advance that he will agree). While treating us men to noodles with coconut milk, Myint Myint herself did not sit down at the table. That's the tradition. A Western woman may find it simply unpleasant, but a Burmese woman views this custom as a convention (the same as her husband’s advice before making a purchase). Her pride does not suffer. The main thing is that there is peace in the family.

Although Buddhism is gentle and democratic, but when entering the most sacred part of the pagoda, you will definitely see the inscription: “Women are not allowed.” At the Sule Temple I asked a venerable monk about this. He began to ardently prove to me that Buddhist teachings advocate the equality of all people. As for the ill-fated inscription, behind it there is only a folk custom. The venerable monk cannot but be trusted. A young Burmese woman approached him, knelt down, bowed to the ground and made some kind of offering. Women do not dare touch even the monk's clothes. But the monks themselves are to some extent dependent on women, for who else gives them food? There were nuns in Burma in the Middle Ages, but this tradition was stopped. Obviously, finding inequality in this, the Burmese women persistently fought for their rights in the spiritual sphere. And now on the streets of Burmese cities and villages you can see flocks of creatures in soft pink robes and with shaved heads. This is "Tilaschin"
nuns of low ordination. Although the Tilash people may not be treated with the same respect as monks, Burmese women have the opportunity to devote themselves to non-mundane life.

For all their religiosity, Burmese women are very cheerful and colorful. To be honest, I don’t like women who smoke. Unless they're Burmese. Burmese ladies smoke not just any cigarettes, but huge cigars. The cigar, called charuta, is made from tobacco with the addition of pieces of palm leaves and wrapped in a corn leaf. Watching a Burmese woman smoking charuta is a pleasure. She smokes with special grace, turning the ordinary inhalation and exhalation of smoke into a ceremony. I once asked a Burmese woman: what does this give her? She answered condescendingly:

You relax a little, take a break from all worries.
A Burmese woman can easily approach a man and ask for a light. Some women (albeit a few) even indulge in the pleasure of chewing betel nut, a chewing gum that has tonic properties. And it is the ladies who prepare and sell this mainly male delicacy. They know which betel leaf to choose, how much lime and spices to put in. A cheerful betel quid vendor at the Minigon market convinced me to try it. I didn't find anything special about the gum. Saliva is produced profusely. I have to spit all the time. I couldn’t even answer the merchant’s question whether I liked betel nut. There was a real mess in my mouth. The merchant laughed:

That's why I sell betel. Let men chew it and argue less with us women.
She deftly adjusted her skirt, first untying it and then wrapping it around her again. Men do much the same. No, whatever you say, women in a country where men prefer skirts are different than in countries where trousers predominate among the stronger sex. By the way, in a Burmese magazine I read that in multinational Burma, in addition to Burmese women, Monks and Karens enjoy enviable rights, but Shanks, Kachins and Arakan women have a more difficult time. I'm testing my hypothesis. So it is: it is the Shans and Kachins who wear bruacs. (The Arakanese, however, are adherents of skirts, but they live next door to the Bengalis - in the Sulmans - this is their influence.)

Burmese women, on top of everything else, are very beautiful. A special charm to their smiling faces is given by “thanakha” - local cream-colored powder generously applied to the cheeks. Burmese women are very clean, they wash their clothes every day, and generally wash several times a day. Moreover, they often do this right on the streets, pouring water on themselves from special cement pools - an everyday thing. Of course, Burmese women do not wash naked, but with their skirts tied under their arms. Having performed ablution, called “natural,” the bathers quickly change their wet skirt for a dry one, also strengthening it under the arms, and so return home. Once, when I first arrived in Burma, I got into trouble. On the street, I began to ask a girl in a similar strange outfit about something. She answered politely and kindly, but as if she wanted to get rid of me. Only later did I realize that she was in a hurry home after the street bath.

Surely many have wondered why Eastern women are unusually slim. I was interested in this too. I found the answer in Burma. Living there for several years, I never met a stooped lady. Probably because in the East they don’t bask on feather beds, but sleep on hard mats. But I think the main thing is the ancient tradition of carrying all kinds of weights on the head. At the same time, the back is straightened like a string, and the head is proudly raised. What objects are transported in this way? It is easier to name those that carry differently. Usually a folded piece of cloth is placed on the head, and then anything is placed on it: a basket, a zucchini, a pot, a bundle of brushwood, a bale. Traders carry trays of all sorts of things on their heads. Helper workers at a construction site - stones, containers with mortar. At the same time, at least one of your hands is free. You can always find some use for them. The peddler deftly gives change to the buyer, the young mother presses her child to her chest, the old woman brings a huge cigar-charuta to her mouth. I have never seen luggage, no matter how bulky, fall off. Sometimes, looking at a tilted pot or basket, you expect with fear: it’s about to crash to the ground. Despite all the laws of physics, this does not happen. A light, subtle touch of the hand, and balance is restored. Burmese women's sense of balance is probably genetic. It is difficult to figure out what is the cause and what is the effect: either Burmese women are so skilled in carrying luggage on their heads because they are calm and balanced, or vice versa.

It is curious that only women bear heavy weights on their heads. Men never. They drag loads on the shoulder or on the back, or even on rocker arms. There is even a proverb about how family wealth grows: the husband carries it into the house on his shoulder, and the wife on her head. What's the matter?

I’m just at a loss for guesses, but of course, I immediately indignantly reject the version that a pretty woman’s head is good for nothing else. Maybe the reason is that women much more often have to carry all sorts of small things, for example, purchases from the market? Men wear them less often, but heavier: coolies, bags. And besides, why should he chase grace? Agree that an overly graceful man would look dubious.

They say that wearing it on the head can cause deformation of the cervical vertebrae and even the spine. I don't know, unless the load is too heavy.

And the Burmese woman, with her head held high, carries the heavy burden of everyday worries and invariably remains feminine and attractive.

How long did men wear skirts? Remember Christopher Columbus. He wore a green tunic, tights and leather shoes, as well as a wide cloak and a leather cap. This picture does not represent masculinity in the human imagination.

Thomas Jefferson also did not wear pants. He preferred pantaloons. In the 1760s, many men wore tight-fitting knee-length pantaloons and stockings. Sailors began wearing very loose trousers in the 1580s, but the garment was reserved for lower-class men and skirts were worn until the 1760s. The French Revolution of 1789 protested against trousers being reserved only for the upper class. At the same time, the first peasants wearing trousers appeared.

In different parts of the planet, such as Africa, Indonesia, the Middle East, Philippines, India, men prefer to wear skirts. In Greece and Scotland, men's skirts are still the official military uniform. After the catwalks of Milan and Paris recently began to present men's skirts, it seems that this trend has slowly begun to take root.
The main reason for doubt is that the male sex is afraid to wear skirts so as not to be mistaken for homosexuals. However, fashion rules are not that men wear women's skirts, but that they wear skirts made specifically for a man's figure.

Pants are mainly European or American clothing. In other parts of the world, males often wear skirts or dresses of one kind or another. When you go on a trip to a foreign country, try on typical clothing and you will be pleasantly surprised. These clothes can help you not stand out from the crowd. Moreover, you will not be considered a stranger and will be received with great cordiality.

As the tabloids like to write, “Men in skirts blew up the Internet.” Indeed, I came across this collage of models by American designer Thome Browne a hundred times online. And mostly with indignant comments.

What can you read about this photo! “Where is the world going, men want to dress like women!!”, “Masculinity is no longer in fashion, soon there will be no normal men left!!”...

Most of these commentators are firmly convinced that men have always, from time immemorial, worn trousers. And nothing, no other configuration of clothing other than trousers and pantsuits can be acceptable for a men's wardrobe. Men should dress strictly and simply, and all sorts of decorations, folds and frills, high-heeled shoes and bright makeup are women's territory. And it has always been like this! Seriously?

Let's take a brief excursion into history.

Men's costume of Antiquity

Although analogues of modern trousers were invented in ancient times, the ancestors of modern European civilization - the ancient Greeks, and after them the Romans - did not wear trousers. They considered trousers an idiotic invention, and those who wore them as barbarians.

In the cradle of modern philosophy, law, science and art, in Ancient Greece, men wore chitons and togas (that is, essentially draped dresses). Gladiators in Ancient Rome wore armor over short tunics - their courage and strength did not suffer from the lack of pants.

As the Roman Empire spread beyond the warm Mediterranean countries, the Roman colonialists gradually adopted the style of wearing pants. For a banal reason - it was warmer in pants than in a toga.

In the Middle Ages in Europe, various types of pants were already quite common, but we have little visual evidence of the fashion of that period. Therefore, let's not linger in the dark Middle Ages, let's move to the Renaissance!

Renaissance Men's Fashion

We have plenty of evidence about this period; there are even portraits of historical figures. For example. On the left is King Charles IX of France. On the right is the English King Henry VIII.

Charles IX is the same one under whom the bloody St. Bartholomew's Night happened in France. And Henry VIII is the same King “Bluebeard” who was married six times. Moreover, the marriages with four of his six wives were annulled on his orders, and he also executed two of them to be faithful. Cruel age, cruel morals. You can’t call these men effeminate and effeminate, you can’t say that they’ve lost their masculine appearance.

However, look at their costumes! The legs in white stockings (!) are open significantly above the knees. Charles IX has very short and very fluffy pants, a tightly cinched waist - the silhouette is more reminiscent of an exaggerated female figure than a male one. Henry VIII actually wears a dress with a short pleated skirt. For women, Renaissance fashion prescribed only long skirts that completely hid their legs, but men showed off their knees without embarrassment.

17th century men's fashion

The fashion for showing off slender male legs continued in the era of the Sun King. Before you is Louis XIV in person. Pay attention to the red (!) stockings on the left and pale blue ones on the right. Also pay attention to the heels!

Louis XIV lived a long life full of all kinds of pleasures. We will not give a list of his mistresses and favorites here, as this would double the length of the article 😉 However, he, like his father Louis XIII, began to go bald early. Under Louis XIII, fashion ordered balding men to hide this unfortunate fact and wear long wigs to match the color of their mustache and beard, imitating their own hair. But the entertainer Louis XIV went further. He brought into fashion long, fluffy, curly wigs that didn’t even try to pretend to be “natural” hair. And all men “from society” wore them, not just bald ones. The wig became a mandatory attribute of the costume.

In addition to wigs, bows on shoes and feathers on hats, wealthy men equipped their suits with lace frills and cuffs, large jewelry and precious embroidery. And also, you won’t believe it, they used powder and blush with all their might!

Men's fashion of the Rococo era

But all this decorativeness, pretentiousness and unnaturalness reached its apogee in the 18th century, during the Rococo era. The men here were worthy competition for the women in the fight for the title of the most decorated and colorful peacocks.

The men's suit consisted of short pants - culottes (yes, modern women's fashionable ones originated from them), a white shirt, vest and outer caftan - justocor. The word “justocor” (from the French juste au corps) literally means “just according to the body.” And in modern French, this word refers to the elastic leotard worn by gymnasts.

The very wording “exactly to the body” makes it clear that this men’s caftan was cut very tight and was supposed to emphasize the figure. The justocort and vest were richly decorated with embroidery, braid, and decorative buttons. Only a blind man could call this men's suit modest and discreet.

And back in the 18th century, men perfumed themselves and wore makeup no worse than women. Both ladies and gentlemen wore powdered wigs, always bleached their faces with powder, heavily blushed their cheeks, painted their lips, and glued on their spots. Men's makeup was no fundamentally different from women's. The “painted” face did not determine gender, but a high, privileged social status. Therefore, the rich bourgeoisie, who did not belong to the aristocracy, but really aspired to join it, also painted brighter, imitating the nobles.

Makeup was a way to pretend to be someone you weren't. Let me remind you, we are talking about men 😉 With blood red painted lips and black spots on their cheeks!

The 19th century changed everything

It was only at the beginning of the 19th century that what in the history of fashion is commonly called the “great male refusal” occurred. The trendsetter of British fashion, the founder of dandyism, Beau Brummel introduced into everyday use a “simple” men’s suit, devoid of decor, colorfulness and fuss. The emphasis in men's suits was on ideal cut and silhouette, high-quality fabrics and minimalism. The concept of conspicuous inconspicuousness, which is so popular among people of taste today, originated in the 1810s in London.

However, this 'low-key', 'simple' London dandy suit looked something like this. Light-colored tight leggings revealed details of a man's physique that we wouldn't expect to see in the middle of the street today.

Dandies did not blush their cheeks and did not wear bright suits. But to achieve the ideal silhouette, so that the shoulders seemed wider and the waist narrower, they wore tightly tightened corsets! The corset was tightened until I lost consciousness - in the most literal sense of the word. Overly zealous dandies fainted at balls, like those muslin young ladies. The corset - you see, it doesn’t distinguish whether you are a man or a woman, it strangles everyone equally.

During the 19th century, European men's fashion underwent several more metamorphoses, corsets became a thing of the past, and the silhouette became increasingly simpler. And by the 1900s, men's fashion had come close to the standard it still adheres to today. The 20th century introduced only slight variations.

Lapels on jackets became a little wider or a little narrower, bow ties, drawstring ties and ties in general came in and out of fashion. Vests and three-piece suits have sunk into oblivion. Bomber jackets, knitted T-shirts and, of course, jeans burst into every man's wardrobe and took up their place forever. They took off to the fashion Olympus and inevitably fell from it: flared trousers, pipe trousers, trousers with tucks, chinos trousers... But always trousers. Only pants. We are so used to them that we don’t see anything around us.

Alternatives to trousers

Nevertheless, trousers today are not the only possible form of clothing for a man. A classic example of an alternative is the Scottish kilt, that is, a men's plaid wrap skirt. The kilt has retained its originality despite the centuries-long march of trousers throughout Europe. The Scots still love and wear kilts. Including Sir Sean Connery, the legendary James Bond, who was awarded a knighthood. Would you say he looks effeminate in this outfit?

A traditional element of the Japanese samurai costume, the hakama is a skirt-pants with numerous pleats. The silhouette of the hakama is such that you can’t immediately determine whether it’s trousers or a skirt. Did samurai become less masculine because they did not wear traditional straight pants “like all men”?

In many Arab countries, men still wear the traditional jalabiya - that is, a long white... dress that reaches to the toes. And no one considers Arab sheikhs less courageous and less attractive because they wear “dresses” and with scarves on their heads. Traditional Chinese men's costume also includes a “wrap dress” down to the toes, which is also belted with a wide belt.

And these are only secular men! Is it worth mentioning that priests of many denominations and monks of many orders have been wearing clothes that most closely resemble a long dress for centuries.

So what is the revolution?

And yet, when menswear designers offer European and American men to wear something resembling a dress or skirt, it creates the effect of a bomb exploding. The public reacts as if Martians were on the podium instead of men.

Excuse me, but all these “new” men’s models are just well-forgotten old ones! How is this model from New York designer Thome Browne (pictured on the right) fundamentally different from the traditional Scottish suit with a kilt (pictured on the left)?

And these models from the Thome Browne collection (in the center and on the right) with their idea and silhouette are strongly reminiscent of the Japanese hakama (pictured on the left).

And in the end, why not? Modern fashion does not impose anything on anyone and does not oblige anyone to anything. Anyone who wants can continue to wear their usual trousers; no one forces them to change into a skirt! But why prohibit experiments for those who are ready for them? Why can't modern men wear a short tunic, why are they worse than gladiators?

The most amazing thing in these discussions are women who wear trousers, jeans and shorts of all kinds and stripes, but at the same time categorically deny men the right to a skirt! Although women wore dresses to their toes throughout the history of mankind, it was only the 20th century, with its wars and upheavals, that allowed them to throw off both the corset and long skirts, and established complete clothing.

And this process was not simple, women in trousers caused almost more public censure and hatred than men in skirts cause today. Then conservative society reconciled. Then I stopped noticing. And then... A new generation of people has grown up who no longer remembers that it once was different. It’s hard for today’s 30-year-olds to imagine how their grandmothers didn’t wear trousers when they were young.

According to my modest forecasts, 10 years will pass, or at most 20, the scandal will subside, society will get used to it, and a man in a skirt will look just as normal, unremarkable, as a woman in trousers looks today. Let's meet in 10 years, let's check? 😉

Against the background of the widespread fascination with the so-called “Vedic” texts and the widespread propaganda of long skirts, supposedly restoring femininity, a scandalous idea was born to restore the authority of trousers and debunk some of the current myths about skirts.

More and more often there are stories of women who gained femininity not thanks to skirts. I always collect stories like this, for example this one: Femininity. My story is not a goddess.

True femininity has nothing to do with clothes or appearance. This is a deep internal feeling that is instantly read by everyone around and the woman herself. What it consists of is a topic for another discussion.

Today I invite you to talk about the visual feminine (female) image. About the myths that circulate around wearing skirts, the “rules” of wearing them and the moments when trousers are simply necessary!

Skirts and cosmic energies.

Let me make a reservation right away that I am not against skirts, but quite the opposite. I even sew skirts and help women get the type of energy they need by applying the appropriate runes to the inside of the belt or choosing a model and cut, but more on that another time.

Let's go through articles from the World Wide Web and try to figure out whether a woman should wear only skirts or give trousers the green light.

Through the hem of a long skirt, a woman receives the energy she needs. Reaching almost to the ground, the skirt forms a cone, it helps to conduct and maintain the necessary nutritional force for the woman. The wide hem, swaying and twisting when walking, forms torsion fields that contribute to the flow and strengthening of the energy of the Earth element. ()

Agree. Skirts really help draw energy from the earth. And the wider the hem, the more of this energy is accumulated. A woman gets completely different sensations in a skirt with a hem of a meter or 10 meters. Remember the gypsy or Mexican skirts that flamenco dancers wear. If the bottom is reinforced with a frill, the energy is enhanced several times. Simple physics: the surface area that collects the charge is larger and, accordingly, there is more energy. Therefore, if you need to increase yin energy and recharge from the earth, choose wide and long models.

Skirts are needed for proper energy intake. The girl's skirt looks like a triangle and energy comes to her from the Earth - female lunar (Yin), by putting on trousers, women block the natural energy channel and begin to receive male energy (Yang) from Space, which is unnatural to nature and the female body, and then women begin to live in male energy, gradually turning into the stronger sex. About the same thing happens to men who wear long hair and tattoo their bodies; they stop receiving male solar energy from Space... (

As for trousers and the stronger sex. A woman in trousers may or may not be sated with masculine energies. Just like not every woman in a skirt is feminine. But more on that later.

But what’s especially funny is that a man with hair loses his masculinity. The famous myth of Samson and Delilah immediately comes to mind.

Men of only some ancient tribes inhabiting the Earth shaved their heads. Long hair was adopted by both American Indians and Eurasian tribes. The Varangians had a forelock. The effect of cosmic antennas was enhanced by deer antlers attached to hats, and later simply by helmet antlers. For women, headdresses with horns (kichkas) were in demand until the last century.

If you are interested, look for information on this issue on the Internet.

History and national costume

It turned out that women wear skirts for a reason - there is a great esoteric meaning in this. The Old Testament, for example, contains precise instructions: “A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not dress in women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God” (Deut. 22:5).

The same trend can be seen in the Koran, as the authorities of the most conservative Malaysian state of Kelantan banned local women from wearing trousers, jeans and short skirts. Such clothing, according to the authorities, “contradicts the canons of Islam and can arouse unhealthy interest.” ()

It is interesting that the author does not mention the poor Scots who are forced to wear a kilt, and according to the idea, unforgivable sinners. Also, the fact that Muslim women’s clothing (usually the hijab) includes pants is somehow omitted.

This is what I found about the Koran and Muslims:

Nowadays, both men and women will be allowed to wear trousers.

However (both men and women) need to ensure that the trousers are not so tight when they accentuate the shape of the body. Women are also prohibited from wearing outerwear (dresses, shirts) that would emphasize the shape of their body. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) warned women against wearing such clothes (Sahih Muslim, hadith 3971).()

In Western European culture, trousers existed back in the 15th century, but they gained popularity only a century later. The first who began to wear trousers were Eurasian women horsemen - Scythians and Persians. They later came to modern Europe along with the Hungarians and Ottoman Turks. However, in Ancient Europe, trousers were also worn by the Celts.

Currently trousers are part of the national dress in countries such as:

India – salwar – kameez

Vietnam - (O dài) Ao Dai is a national women's Vietnamese costume, which is a long dress with two slits, worn over pants.

Countries where men still wear skirts today.

Scotland. Kilt

The most interesting part of the national Scottish costume remains the kilt. This wardrobe item was made from tartan, a woolen checkered fabric. Each clan had its own color and pattern: by looking at the kilt it was always possible to determine in which region of Scotland a person lived. Translated from Scottish, kilt means “to wrap around the body.” After all, this is not just a skirt! This is a huge piece of material that every self-respecting Scot wraps around his waist with neat folds and secures the structure with belts.

Maasai wear shuka

The Maasai tribe prefers clothing in bright colors: red and blue are believed to represent strength and power. Clothing for men that resembles a woman's dress is called shuka. This outfit is an indispensable thing in the African economy. It is comfortable to hunt in, it does not restrict movement and protects from the sun. In addition, as the Maasai believe, shuka perfectly emphasizes the belligerence of its owner.

Traditional Turkish women's and men's clothing consisted of the same elements: bloomers, shirt, vest and belt. True, girls wore a dress down to their toes over their shirt with sleeves covering their fingertips (entari). In addition, ladies decorated their dresses with a belt, the length of which reached 3-4 meters. Men wrapped a vest with a sash to store money, tobacco, matches and other small items in a kind of “purse.”

Perhaps there are other national trouser suits for women. For now we are only interested in the fact that Not all women historically wear skirts, which does not at all prevent them from drawing on feminine energy and being “real women.”

It was believed that a woman takes her energy from the Earth, this helps her strengthen her roots and gain strength for motherhood. For a woman, it is important that the energy flows downwards, since the downward energy flow is associated with reproductive function and female hormones are produced in the lower part of the body. It must be remembered that female beauty depends on the level of female hormones: if it decreases, both beauty and health go away

Everything is great, except for the assumption that if a woman wears trousers, the female hormone will stop being produced and, horror of horrors, she will lose her beauty. To refute this hypothesis, we provide historical information about Indian women and the above-mentioned oriental beauties who wear pants without sacrificing hormones.

In addition, domed skirts add fragility, mystery and femininity to a woman.

*not any

*in a certain combination

More on this below.

The way you dress (...) affects not only women’s health, but also increased magnetism on the part of men. If a woman wears a long skirt, it affects the woman's perception of herself as a woman, as well as a man's perception of a woman. Thereby improving and harmonizing relationships. There are known cases where giving up trousers and switching to wearing skirts and dresses helped women who had been diagnosed with infertility become pregnant.

Putting on a dress, you instantly feel how your state changes, you become more playful, alluring, not to mention the aspect that a man always prefers a dress on a woman to any cool jeans.

I have been interested in the topic of skirts, skirt energy, and the effect of wearing a skirt on reproductive functions for a very long time. The interest is purely scientific. I’m also curious about HOW men feel about wearing skirts. And not those esoterically nourished, well-read, fingering beads, Vedic savvy and proficient in energy practices, but simple ordinary men walking the streets and supermarkets and listening to the radio in traffic jams.

And I noticed two interesting trends.

1. Women in skirts (especially long ones), as a rule, do NOT look FEMININE, but wretched. When interviewing men, suitable epithets were “nightmarish, disgusting, like a nun”

Why do skirts that look so attractive on models online end up on us like on a hanger in real life?

Why do skirts make you look fat, make you look thin, and don’t look good at all?

It's all about your height, silhouette and shoes. Why didn’t anyone who writes about skirts and their sacred meaning bother to write which skirts suit your body type, which shoes to pair with and how to wear them in general? Suspicion creeps in about a global conspiracy against female beauty.

I will describe several typical mistakes in wearing long skirts.

b) Boring top. The most common mistake. I am not an image maker, but I will note that most middle-aged ladies have a pear-type figure, which is contraindicated in wearing tank tops with skirts. Look how the image has changed with the right skirt silhouette and shaped shoulders.

Pear-shaped women, pay attention to your shoulders and blouse necklines.

c) Inappropriate style. In defense of tight skirts, I will say that in some cases a pencil skirt is much more impressive than a long, shapeless sheet.

2 2) Men like women in trousers.
Again, if the pants fit well. Here are photo examples of how some trousers accentuate your figure better than skirts. I plan to write a separate article about how, with what and which models of trousers are best to wear. It was especially interesting to talk about jeans, especially those from which the body falls out like dough from a tub!:)

Many women, when wearing trousers, do not lose their femininity at all.

I’ll give you a few, in my opinion, of the most feminine trouser beauties.

Audrey Hepburn

Now it becomes clear to us that they are not trousers or skirts at all.
Without touching deeply on the topic, let’s leave out for now that deep femininity that comes from the internal state, let’s highlight those elements that create precisely the Image (visual) of a WOMAN. The image by which you can determine from afar whether the person in front of you is a woman or a man. Up close or when communicating, it may turn out that the woman turns out to be a boy in a skirt or a masculine woman.

THE FEMALE IMAGE-ARCHETYPE consists of

1. Wavy lines, oval shape as opposed to masculine sharp clear lines and square and rectangle shapes. Starting from the paleolithic Venus and ending with classical paintings, it is the rounded shapes that delight a woman. The female image is the waist, chest, hips. Difference between body parts and roundness!

2. Flying gait. First of all, these are the movements of the arms and body when walking. However, shoes help create an image soaring above the ground. Remember the pointe shoes of ballerinas and their tiptoe movements. In real life, this is a heel. Especially the hairpin.

Boots and platform shoes can add femininity, or they can take it away, depending on the height, width of the top, frills and other things. Sneakers, sneakers, and especially Ugg boots - alas, will not make you even a millimeter feminine.

3. Fluttering, frills, folds, flounces, wide sleeves - everything that dissipates energy. Children's ruffles as a symbol of innocence migrated to all kinds of frills in women's costumes. If you want to add some “girly” energy to your look, use frills.

So we made several discoveries:

* Historically, women wore pants, just as men wore skirts, without losing their sexual characteristics, hormonal levels, reproductive functions and health!
* A woman wearing trousers can look feminine
* A woman in a skirt may not look feminine.
* A woman's image does not depend on skirts or trousers, but on the silhouette, shoes and the image as a whole.

That's why just wearing a skirt will not make you feminine or desirable, nor will it help you get pregnant.

A few words about pregnancy. I have already written about the multiple causes of infertility, both physiological and from the point of view of one’s own and family karma. If a woman has an energy imbalance, wearing a skirt alone will not solve the problem.

So we talked about the visual female image and the fact that trousers do not at all prevent a woman from being a woman. We continue to discuss the disadvantages of wearing skirts for women with pronounced yin energy and the peculiarities of using the energy of trousers in everyday magic.

© Copyright: Anastasia Sinitsina 2016

Men's skirts around the world: Valyaeva's nightmare

For those who are sure that femininity or masculinity is formed by a skirt or pants, it will perhaps be a terrible discovery that traditionally men of many nations wore clothes that, by modern standards, cannot be classified as anything other than a skirt or dress. And at the same time they were stern warriors.

But for many modern peoples, nothing in this regard has, in general, changed.

Greece

The uniform of the Greek Evzone Guards includes a pleated fustanella skirt. It has exactly 400 folds in memory of four centuries of Turkish yoke, and the guardsman begins his morning by smoothing them out with an iron. The fustanella set includes shoes with pom-poms, a white shirt, white woolen stockings, leg warmers, garters for leg warmers, a vest and a phareon hat with a long tassel. The shoes weigh 3 kg each, and the fluffy pom-poms on them were once used to hide knives from the Turks.

Until the start of World War II, fustanella was also worn by ordinary Greeks in the south of the country. Nowadays it is worn only on holidays and more often on boys than on adults.

India

In the homeland of the Vedas, they don’t know that Vedic wisdom extremely strictly determines who wears a skirt and who wears harem pants, so salwar kameez (pants with a tunic) here is a popular women’s costume, and many men, without the slightest doubt, wear put a wrap-around skirt on your hips - lungi or mundu. Accessories for it are optional, you can wear it with a scarf, you can wear it with a shirt, you can wear it just like that.

Kenya

The traditional men's skirt, the kikoy, is very popular here, but... more so among the white population. But Maasai warriors in the south of the country like to flaunt in a belted shuka - clothing that, depending on the weather and situation, is worn as a sundress or as a skirt (lowering the top of the shuka over the hem). Favorite colors for shuka are different shades of red, especially scarlet, and blue. Young men dancing in shuks look incredibly impressive!

Indonesia

In Indonesia, as well as Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Singapore, the skirt worn everywhere by both men and women is called a sarong. The popularity of the sarong is easy to explain: it is very hot here, and the ability to provide ventilation to the body and easily change sweaty clothes is extremely important. Nowadays, trousers are often worn under an official sarong, but they are not provided for in a casual style.

Burma

The local type of skirt is called longzhi. Women wrap it on their thighs, men wrap it on... it will be up to our waist, in short. In addition to the method of wearing, men's longzhi differ from women's in patterns. Men prefer horizontal stripes and checkered patterns. Men's longzhi are called pashou. They are included in the uniform in some schools.

Fiji

In Fiji, men's skirts, sulu vakataga, rule the roost. They are part of the mandatory dress code for officials, military uniforms, and are worn by businessmen, office workers, schoolchildren and police officers. Wearing a sulu to church is a must. Often the hem is cut into triangles. Modern sulu can be either tied at the waist or with clasps. By the way, instead of harsh men's boots, rugged men's sandals are practiced in Fiji.

Yemen

A Yemeni horseman without a futa skirt and a dagger-jambiya is not a horseman! Except that in the north, instead of a futa, there is a toba dress. But pants are unnecessary at this celebration of life.

Hawaii

Handsome Jason Momoa looks amazing in skirts both as Conan the Barbarian and as Khal Drogo. And all because he was used to wearing this item of clothing since childhood: in his native Hawaii, the male population still willingly wears kickcaps. He wears, wore and will wear, because otherwise where will new Momoas come from?

Samoa

We couldn’t help but put Samoa after Hawaii, because it would be a sin to miss such a rhyme. Samoans very carefully preserve their traditions, including the most irrational ones, but wearing a skirt cannot be counted among them. In such a climate, you can’t replace good lava-lava with any pants - you’ll only be wasting away in vain and rubbing your seams gently. Therefore, lava-lava is included in all kinds of uniforms, for example, the police.