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Kathleen Cuthbertson
September 10, 2009 12:00am
FIRST came the meggings - that's men's leggings - now Melbourne designer Anthony Capon wants men to consider skirts.
Capon, who is a finalist on Foxtel's Project Runway, said skirts could be masculine and should not be confined to the wardrobes of women and cross-dressers.
He said they were not for every man, but they should not be overlooked as an alternative by fashion-forward types wanting to embrace androgynous styles.
"They're more comfortable, they have more movement in the legs, and if you've got good legs you might as well show them off," Capon said.
"For me, you still have to have hairy legs, you don't do it to look feminine, I think that's the whole thing about it."
Capon, 25, said he started wearing skirts as a child partly because he did Irish dancing. These days he either makes his own or picks out women's styles that suit his look.
He said the fuller the skirt the more manly the wearer had to be.
"You don't want to look like a guy dressing up in girls' clothes -- that's not what it's about."
While man skirts are not widely available, top international designers Marc Jacobs and Jean- Paul Gaultier champion the cause, with Jacobs known to appear after his own runway shows in a skirt.
Vogue online editor Damien Woolnough said the man skirt idea did come around regularly but the trend struggled to catch on.
The final of Project Runway airs next Wednesday (September 16).
