Guys in dresses

Dingo,

Just curious, but are you by any chance from Michigan? Your description of your local shopping sounds a lot like where I live. (Have to drive to Detroit/Chicago for any REAL shopping!)

Dingo,

Don`t let negative people stop you honey from being an individual, just ignore people that make nasty comments and attempt to dissuade you from your interests. and I am sure that hetrosexual men can choose different styles for themselves that seem outside of the norm to many people. you are not hurting anyone sweetie! And thank you for starting this lively chat on this website!

Dingo!
You are Australian buddy! I thought all Australian guys were ultra-macho maniacs who drink massive quanities of Fosters beer, play rugby, and like big tall women with voluputous bodies and muscles!
And you want to wear a dress and high heels! What`s the world coming to!!!!!
No, with all due respect, I think people should just be happy, I like most everyone and I just want you people to do what you want!
Beautiful dark haired Rita, if you want to dress up your man in a dress, do it to him sister!
Lovely Carol, if you want to attend oddball fashion shows run by gay dudes and look at male models prancing around in sarongs, be my guest!
And Dingo buddy, what could be more hip than an Australian he-man in a dress and high heels!

All I know is you are not getting me to wear a dress because one- I am not the least bit interested or inclined to wear a dress, I like my blue jeans, and two- I play ice hockey and work in the taxicab industry.As we all know ice hockey players are even more barbaric than rugby players, and most cab drivers in Minnesota where I live are either American guys who are ex-convicts or crazy foreigners from terrorist countries! In other words the guys I know, can tell you all about cars, sports and guns, but could not tell a dress from a sarong, and if they saw a guy wearing a dress, they would probably drag out the boiling pot of oil!!!!!
Sorry folks, I`m just not a dress kinda guy!

Now that is funny to visualize ice hockey men wearing dresses lol NOt in a million years that would happen in Canada.

I think that certain things should be left alone. Men can be so sexy wearing certain things ( like those texans men wearing dusters) as women can be wearing that right kind of dress but too much is too much . If I came across someone like Steven Seagal wearing a dress I would quickly turn my back and run eventhought I think the man is sexy you know. Certain things are just sacred and shouldn`t be touch. What happen to the whole image what a man looks like and what a woman looks like? Heck I hardly wear pants. I hate them and I don`t own a pair of blue jeans.

Sorry Johan, but not all of us are burly rugby boozers ;). I Myself am a bit on the skinny side (my damn brother got all the size genes!), and am only about 5`8, which puts me near the shortest of my friends, and I hate football etc, too many rules, I got penalised for `tackling` someone, but they told me it was `decking`, too many technicalities. I`m into badminton and kung fu.

Basically, I recon that they should market clothing to both sexes, and leave it up to them to choose. Some guys would look good in skirts, some would look like really weird freakazoids (I agree with you there!), but hey, the reverse is true for women in pants.

I think the biggest problem is though, is that there is no Opportunity for that kind of decision to be made. Discrimination cuts both ways.

But hey, nobody ever said that the world was perfect ;)

Johan the Canadian mentality is a lot different than the states. Not that I am saying anything bad about our Americans neighbors as I have many friends there. We tend to be very family oriented that we censure a lot of stuff. Our children tend to be brought up more strickly. Our education level is higher as it is proven by many test that compares countries. We don`t get half of the shows that our Americans friends do nor the magazines etc. We also tend to be very cultural and nationality oriented. We tend to be more calm and lay back. WE are known as a country of peace. We encourage more than one language in a home plus we have the schools to support that. Many people know more than two languages here. I have friends who easily know seven languages. Its not so unually. Personally I see the huge difference. We tend to be more trusting but at the same time if we don`t like something we do something and not just talk about it. We are very down to earth.
In a crisis we tend to help each other. In a suvey we were also known as a country that volunteers alot. PLus we are the cookie capital of the world.

Johan the Canadian mentality is a lot different than the states. Not that I am saying anything bad about our Americans neighbors as I have many friends there. We tend to be very family oriented that we censure a lot of stuff. Our children tend to be brought up more strickly. Our education level is higher as it is proven by many test that compares countries. We don`t get half of the shows that our Americans friends do nor the magazines etc. We also tend to be very cultural and nationality oriented. We tend to be more calm and lay back. WE are known as a country of peace. We encourage more than one language in a home plus we have the schools to support that. Many people know more than two languages here. I have friends who easily know seven languages. Its not so unual. Personally I see the huge difference. We tend to be more trusting but at the same time if we don`t like something we do something and not just talk about it. We are very down to earth.
In a crisis we tend to help each other. In a suvey we were also known as a country that volunteers alot. PLus we are the cookie capital of the world.

Diane from Canada,
Diane,
I live in Minneapolis, Canada is right up the street from me, I have been there many times.
The Canada you are describing is true as a whole, but it is no longer true in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. With the exception of murder, crime has risen to levels in Toronto and Vancouver similar to that of many American cities. In fact crime experts from New York and Boston, where they have significantly reduced crime recently have actually been brought into Toronto recently to help reduce crime,(U.S. experts have also been brought into several west European countries recently).
You are definetly not more family orientated than the U.S.. Our birth rates are quite a bit higher than Canada, even the Caucasian birth rates are higher in the U.S. than in Canada. Canada, in fact without immigration would start to shrink in population within a few years. The U.S. meanwhile even without immigrants would grow, and with the immigration we have is growing even faster. And you most certainly have been experiencing an increasing problem with hate crimes in the big cities especially in Toronto and Montreal(remember the burning down of the large Muslim Mosque in Montreal). You were racially tolerant in the past because you had a miniscule black population compared to the U.S., and a very small Muslim population, but as these groups have moved into your large cities, you are developing "U.S.A." problems, which is one reason the Reform Party of Canada, that is so strong in Alberta and British Columbia wants and end to most of the immigration into Canada! And in British Columbia as wealthy Asian immigrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan move ahead of whites economically,(which they are), and grow to a much larger percentage of the population, white resentment and hate crimes are increasing. I have talked to many Canadians, including educated business people who have ridden with my cab service, and they talk often about the growing divisions in Canada, and how Canada`s large cities are developing "American" problems. Once your racial minorities become as high of a percentage as they are in the U.S., and there is no large majority, where every group is fighting for jobs and resources, like we have to do, you will find you are not better or more moral than we are, you will have the same human tensions and flaws that other countries have, and Canada`s utopian days will be over, and you will have U.S. problems. Your attitude of moral superiority wiil be gone soon as you realize that Canada really isn`t that different from other countries like the U.S., Mexico, and Britian.
I`m glad you love your country and I love Canada too, it is a great country and I love it dearly, and it still is much better than most countries, but you are looking at what your country was, and not what it is becoming, and believe me I am sorry, very sorry to say this. I much prefered the big cities of Canada twenty years ago when I first visited Canada, than what I saw in Canada in recent years.
In summary, it will be impossible for Canadians to avoid the problems of the U.S., Mexico, and Britian.
Sincerely, and with some regret I say this, and I still love Canada and wish you well!

You want to know the worst thing about Canada starting to get messed up like the U.S. Johan, Americans will have nowhere to go to escape, nowhere to take vacations or hide out. When Canada gets like the U.S. and Mexico, like you mentioned Johan, they will just be another country that lost it`s innocence, and there are very few countries left that aren`t plagued with ethnic strife, weirdos and crime. The number of sheltered , protected countries, you can count them on one hand. I blame it on stupid governments that don`t listen to the people!

No way Dean that America is going to add 180 million more people than we alreadyhave, no one in America wants that, even the foreigners don`t want that. Obviously they will cut back immigration to normal levels, they have been talking about doing that anyway, since the Sept.11th terrorist attacks!
And if Canadian women aren`t having enough babies, their government will just pay people in Canada to have more babies, like they do in some foriegn countries. There I solved the problem.
Now lets talk about what this thread is supposed to be about, which is men in dresses, that is what Dingo wanted to discuss, stuff like that. And men are so sexy in dresses, and many women think that. In fact if Canada needs more babies, they should sex up their men more by having them grow beautiful long hair, wear earrings and wear a long dress, The Canadian women(except Diane), would find it so sexy on men and they would want to have more babies with the men! He he he! But really, handsome, strong virile men in kilts, sarongs, dresses, ets. are adorable. And Dingo agrees with me and he is Australian and those guys are studs! Right Dingo!
Of course I`m right!