WhyNotMenToo

JeffB

"U.S., being a more puritanical country than Europe is far more rigid and narrowminded when it comes to alternative ideas regarding sex, gender, fashion, you name it."

You are so right!

It sounds like fun, and I love to see Copenhagen some day and go to Germany too, but money is the problem, I live in the U.S.A.

I'm a big fan of high-heels too, but I love boots also, I wear my 3" heel GOGO boots AT home and out around town all the time, I love the feeling of smooth shaved legs also and I wear pantyhose too, my legs look so much better when I wear my kilt or skirt. But when I'm out around town I waer pants hose, and boots. I'm straight guy who is sick with the same old mens fashions, it's time for all of use men to have the same freedom in fashion as the woman have.

Richard

Southern CA, U.S.A.

I started shaving my legs last year after added skirts and pantyhose to my fashion statement. The feeling I get wearing pantyhose on freshly shaved legs was so pleasurable and I just love the feeling. I hope soon taht society will change to allow people to dress in whatever clothes and shoes they love the most. I'm not gay! I just love the feminine look better then male fashions today.

Johniehhl You are so lucky and your GF is great, it sounds like fun having her wake you each day with different heels.

Thighhigh I love the boots!

I hope I'm not making problems for my self with the rules but Look at what I have found. What do we wear with our heels???

Men's pantyhose may jump-start a dying product

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By Lenore Skenazy

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They say age ain't nothing but a number. But it's more than that.

It's how you relate to pantyhose.

If you think of pantyhose as a normal part of life for women, you are middle-aged. If you think of them as ancient togs with all the sex appeal of bunion cushions, you are Gen X. But if you think of them as something to wear with defiant pride, you are truly something else. A brave new breed. A customer on the cusp.

You are, in short, a man.

Yes, while women's pantyhose sales have been in a freefall for about a decade, pantyhose sales to men are heading sky-high. Or thigh-high, anyway. And on a guy, that's pretty high.

''Our customers are primarily heterosexual, happily married men that you would never suspect of wearing anything unusual under their trousers,'' says Steven Katz, managing partner of Ohio-based Comfilon (as in comfort + nylon), the nation's largest purveyor of male pantyhose.

Katz comes from a long line of leg men - his great-grandfather started a stocking company in the 1920s. But Katz himself dreamed up his male hose (that doesn't sound right) only eight years ago, after perusing rival hosiery companies' Web sites and seeing the same reader comments over and over: ''Why are there no pantyhose for men?''

Ah, where would we be without the insights of the Web?

Men were longing for the comfort and coziness of pantyhose - attributes I'll admit I missed back in my own more pantyhose-intensive days. (If men said they longed to see their money disappear down the drain with a single snag, or enjoyed the challenge of trying to walk around in an undergarment that was, upon mid-day reflection, made for someone much, much shorter, that I'd understand. Maybe. But they really thought of pantyhose as the perfect garment: warmer than socks, less bulky than long-underwear. And so, they longed - same as women do - for equal pay.)

Anyway, now that men can buy pantyhose, and do, it is fair to ask why younger women are shunning them.

The pantyhose, that is. What it is about this item that makes it such a cultural flash point?

When panties and hosiery first crossbred in 1959, they were more than an instant hit. They were an instant demarcation line. Before that, women had to wear all sorts of hardware to hold up their stockings. Pantyhose were not only easier to get on (and off!), they also went so high up the thigh that they made the miniskirt possible. Hello, youth culture, sexual revolution and Twiggy! Goodbye, rubber girdles - the very undergarment that had seemed so liberating to earlier women, when they bid goodbye to the even more-constricting corset.

What's appalling to me, a pantyhose baby, is that today's young women feel the same way about pantyhose that I feel about girdles: Eww. ''Sex and the City'' made bare legs the billboard for a liberated libido. Anything else looked pathologically prim. But just as women my mother's age tsk-tsked the no-girdle look, bare legs in winter look utterly ridiculous to friends my age. So now we sound like old ladies.

''Look at those winter white legs,'' snipped my friend Nancy at Dunkin' Donuts the other morning. ''Tell me that is attractive. She'd look so much better in a pair of nice black nylons.''

That's why I'm hoping that the pantyhose-for-men movement takes off. If men can make pantyhose sexy, then maybe women can wear them again, too, without feeling as old as Betty Grable.

Or, come to think of it, Twiggy.

6' 2" Barefoot

JeffB

"As for boots, definitely knee highs or the mid-shin scrunched variety, either with flat or high heels, I've seen women sport both in my travels. Top it off with a sharp leather jacket or coat and you've got a great look". Hay JeffB, I wear boots with flat heels and I tuck my jeans in my knee highs boots all the time and never had any problem with people but what about 3" or 4" heel boots???

Richard

dr1819

How high are you talking about 3'' or 4"??

Richard

johnieheel

where can I get boot like the one you are showing in you picture, where do you live and what store can I go to get the boots too. How high are you heels? I own some gogo boots with 3" heels and they feel great.

Fashion Freedom for all

Richard

JeffB

This group is great!! I'm so glad that I found you all, it looks as if I'll have fun here talking to you all.

Have a Happy New Year

Richard

Hey DallasHeels I hope I have the same luck as you, I had a great time reading you story too, good luck.

Boy did you hit it on the head, this is me.

Specifically, a "male lesbian" is a heterosexual man who wishes

that he had been born a woman, but who (even if he had been a woman)

could only make love to another woman and never to a man.

dr1819,

I like the way you think, but football and sports, I hate, but as you said and I quote "but who is more comfortable with the holiday discussions among the females, who enjoys skirts and heels, but not appearing as a woman, and who wishes that the terms "skirt" and "heels" weren't contemporarily synonomous with women's fashion, but rather equally open to men's fashion." Aman to that brother!!! Ho! thats a great look how may I fined a skirt that you are showing in your picture where can I get one? and from what I can see the boot look great.