‘Brad Pitt wore a skirt, but can I get away with it in London?’
19.08.2022 - 07:25
/ msn.com
Brad Pitt caused a sensation when he turned up in one — asymmetrical, black linen, accessorized with a matching jacket and pink shirt — at the Berlin premiere of his film Bullet Train. “We’re all going to die so let’s mess it up,” he said later of his sartorial bombshell. Quite.
Well said, Brad. But I feel honour bound to point out that I’m a centimetre taller and two years younger than you, and I was three years ahead of you when it came to wearing a male skirt. Back in 2019 I fulfilled a long-held ambition and bought a pleated, plain black, cotton-twill, kilt-style skirt — closer in cut to the Givenchy skirt that A$AP Rocky sported in New York last week than Brad’s floaty number.
I’d always secretly fancied the idea of the male skirts that were a feature of Jean Paul Gaultier’s collections from 1985 onwards, and the kilts he modelled on Channel 4’s Eurotrash from 1993. My yearning became overt when a bearded Ewan McGregor attended the 1999 Evening Standard Theatre Awards in a chunky polo, heavy boots, and a slimming, straight black skirt. He looked very handsome and very masculine: this was a world away from the daring, pioneering androgyny of Mick Jagger’s puff-sleeved white minidress at the Rolling Stones’ Hyde Park concert in 1969, or David Bowie in a peach and blue velvet frock on the cover of The Man Who Sold the World in 1970.
I mean no disrespect to the trans community, or to drag queens, when I say that I had no interest in looking like a woman, or in pushing some sort of arbitrary concept of gender. I wanted to look like a man in a smart skirt. I ordered mine online from a company called Majestic though the design seems to be a standard one made by several firms.
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