"Men In Skirts" Aesthetic Study

In recent years, men in skirts become a commonplace in T station, a number of well-known fashion designers, such as Marc Jacobs, Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood et al., are trying their best to made skirts for men. It becomes a trend followed by more and more fashion designers, and soon swept the fashion world. In contrast to the enthusiasm in fashion industry, the public lack of enthusiasm and hesitate to follow this fashion trend,"men in skirts"becomes a controversial topic, and the gender become the key point of this issue."skirt is woman’s wear" was awareness for most people all over the world In last three centuries and it limited the scope of topic discussion on"men in skirt" and research depth.The controversial topic "men in skirt" is the motivation of writing this paper. In order to analyze and understand this controversial topic well, the paper follows the ideas of vertical and horizontal contemplation of the phenomenon---"men in skirt" to complete a more comprehensive analysis and discussion, and try to do aesthetic research on "men in skirt" and put forward some development strategies on men skirts, hoping this paper can cause more people in the industry and researchers to concern about it.The main line of this paper is:"Fact basis---phenomenon analysis---aesthetic research". Based on this line, the article divides into three parts. In first part, the fact of "men in skirt" presents to certificate men and women wore the skirts for many centuries and till now there are still men in skirt in some nations and local people in different regions. It is a good proof for the persistence of men in skirt". From three angles of individual’s personalities, business arena and mass media, the second part gives the different attitude and interpretation toward the phenomenon of "men in skirt". Third part is conducting the aesthetic research of "men in skirt" based on the contemporary social ideology context analysis. The social gender and ideology form and their mechanism of action are discussed, and the diversification of aesthetic standards and value orientation is put into attention. This lays the foundation for aesthetic criticism to "men in skirt" and approach to the development of men’s skirt.Through the above process of research, this paper proposes the following perspectives:The skirt is independent of gender,"men in skirt" is not contradict with Masculinity, the aesthetic criticism on "men in skirt"is the review and reconsidering of contemporary ideology,"Men in skirt" is the positive response to slow lifestyle and aesthetic diversity.