Pant skirts for Men? (maybe subtitled 'Odd NYC fashion choices')

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Just went out for lunch and passed a man walking down the street in a style of clothing I had yet to see before; what initially looked like baggy pants proved to be something quite different.

This is hard to explain, so work with me: big baggy blue jeans with no crotch, and a half moon of fabric cut out from knee to inseam. So what you get is a blue jean skirt with leggings, except the leggings have a weird peekaboo circle between crotch and knee.

Jeans were baggy enough that his junk wasn't falling out and it was minimal enough that you might not even notice it (I only noticed cuz we were waiting to cross street and I went through a few stages of "WTF?" ). Anybody know what the fuck I saw? Does it have a name?

Dude seemed a lil' ratty but normal looking otherwise; like the bassist for Faith no More from the neck up and just some hefty cat wearing a t-shirt otherwise. Is this some sort of trend or did I just find a stealth weirdo?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

It probably WAS the bassist from Faith No More.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

So....as if he took a pair of baggy shorts and cut open the entire inseam? Or, full-length to the ankle jeans? Either way, I hope there's no name for it and that it doesn't catch on. Especially with anyone I work with.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Jaq: almost the second one, but not quite. Full length to the ankle jeans with the inseam cut to bottom of the knee, with a circle of fabric cut out at the knee and hemmed; then the inseam was extended so that it looks like a skirt. Very odd.

Also, to clarify: this was not a homemade jobbie, it had logos on it and was definitely a boutique item. Some major designer is selling this shit.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.backpackgeartest.org/reviews/Clothing/Skirts%20and%20Kilts/Macabi%20Skirt%20-%20Men/Shane%20Steinkamp/Initial%20Report/MS002.jpg

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Just so long as that isn't you, scnnr.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Hakama

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, possibly anticipating your next question - that isn't my bf either.

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.backpackgeartest.org/reviews/Clothing/Skirts%20and%20Kilts/Macabi%20Skirt%20-%20Men/Shane%20Steinkamp/Initial%20Report/Macabi.gif

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Here in Chicago I have seen the fashion kilt-style skirt for men a few times. The cut is okay, but it tends to be so aggresively masculined-up with grommets and chain wallet and outside pockets and denim that it looks confused and a little insecure.

― Annabelle Lennox (Arachne), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://cafe.onlinedreaming.com/gallery2/albums/Newbies/Greg5.sized.jpg

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Utilikilts are made in Seattle and seem relatively popular there. When the guy was first making them, he would stroll around the Fremont market wearing one yelling stuff about freeballing. Which was kind of off-putting.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

If we're logging sightings; There was a bloke in a kilt and bovver boots in downtown orlando the other night. No trousers though. I did not ask about his pants.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

FWIW, the pantskirt in question isn't any of these posted yet.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

G00gle is taking me into NSFW territory (along with bringing me "Christian and Kilted" and the support group at kiltmen.com) with skortman.com (MY EYES! MY EYES!). So I have to stop thinking about this now.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

They are tying them all wrong. This way is much better:

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 26 May 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.molon.de/galleries/Myanmar/People/images01/01%20Burmese%20man.jpg

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 26 May 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

I am having real trouble visualising what you saw, forks!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 26 May 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

Utilikilts were indeed worn a fair amount around Seattle- sightings of them aren't very rare. Haven't seen any folks walking around in NYC in them yet, but I've been too busy gaping at the buildings still to notice men in jean skirts.

― lyra (lyra), Friday, 26 May 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen what Forks is talking about, but it was on a Japanese woman and seemed to make more sense in that context. Picture if someone cut the legs off a pair of jeans, and cut out the inner thigh from the crotch to the knee. This leaves a strip of denim on the outside of the thigh, and regular pant legs from the knee down. Now imagine that strip of denim is attached to an above the knee denim skirt. That's what these are, except it's made as one piece.

― patita (patita), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

I still can't properly picture this.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Like this, but of denim instead of pink fur? And no pink tights? With knobby nairy man knees in between?

http://www.doandroidsdream.com/main_imgs/skirts/thumbs/dp0121.jpg

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

i've seen these before too.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 26 May 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Patita, that's it! What the hell IS that?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 27 May 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

Abbot--there's a strip of fabric attaching the skirt part to the leggings, and it runs along the outside of the leg. Otherwise that's not a bad visual. The thing that's so weird is that they are connected.

Forks, I have no freaking clue what it is but it stuck in my head so that I remembered a couple years later. I don't even know how to search for it. Wonder if Momus knows?

― patita (patita), Monday, 29 May 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

OH, you mean those raver legging things? Horrible.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 29 May 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

Now I've seen the utilikilt site (first bit of non-blackberry net access in a week) I'm sorely temptede by a workman or a survival.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

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