Anyway I like your ideas on there needing to be a male liberation on the dress code as there was for females. In a lot of ways women have more freedom than men in the west.

Oh and I keep my legs waxed/shaved, I tried it once for my girlfriend and I really liked the way they feel, haven’t looked back since. Hair sucks!!! :)

My ailment is not much of a handicap (doesn’t stop me from dancing anyway; people who have a severe case of this can actually be bed-ridden). For me, there is occasional mild pain and discomfort, but the main hassle is that it is very difficult to find boots that fit. As long as bell-bottomed pants remain acceptable gear, bell-bottom-shaped legs can be well disguised.

OK, provided that they are BEAUTIFUL legs, and provided that they are not also hairy (because hair does actually grow on most women’s legs, they just tend to remove it, so in theory if a man shaved his legs, as cyclists usually do, he could look just as attractive — even more so, possibly, having more pronounced muscle tone).

Also, I am the wrong woman to compare my legs to those of a man. I look great enough in pantyhose to be the centrefold… for a medical textbook! I have lymphoedema: My legs look like baobab tree trunks, and very few of my friends can attest to ever having seen my ankles. I haven’t seen them myself since I was a child, since each ankle is hidden under a thick roll of errant fluid-filled flesh, containing unprocessed sewerage from my body’s malfunctioning plumbing system. So any regular guy with hairy legs is going to look better in pantyhose than I do.

Wow, I think that has got to be the grossest, most self-deprecating description I have ever written. I should write scripts for horror movies and then star in them!

@Richard, I think it’s when men realise “Finding a man attractive doesn’t make a man gay, necessarily.” that that is the case, these things would open up and more creativity would be used.

Life is all about change and going to new places, especially in our thinking.

I think mantyhose will appeal to a bolder younger generation of men who dare to experiment with fashion and stretch its limits. They most likely will also opt to shave their legs because hose looks much more appealing on bare limbs.

@Gerrit: I think male bodies can be attractive and appealing, even to other straight men. Finding a man attractive doesn’t make a man gay, necessarily.

I have worked on a paper plant outside Nelspruit for a while. There the men are allowed to wear short pant and short sleave overall’s due to the heat and humidity. Trust me it ain’t a pretty site.

The Women’s Liberation movement gave a lot of freedom in dress to women. In the Western world, there are all sorts of options which are considered acceptable as workwear as well as leisurewear.

For example, a woman can go to a serious boardroom meeting wearing a calf-length dress or one which goes up to the knee, or she can wear formal pants. The clothes could be patterned or in solid colours. She could wear a jacket or a coat or a jersey, and almost any kind of collar. She could wear jewellery. Her hair could be long or short; her heels could be high or low; she could even wear boots. She could go with or without make-up, and could choose to wear a scarf, and so on.

A man has to wear long pants, a collared shirt, flat shoes and a very specific type of jacket. That’s it. No options. If you’re a man and you don’t have the figure for that outfit, tough. There is a serious need for male liberation.

Having said all that, I still stick by my initial comment: You’re not going to introduce pantyhose for men in the manner shown in that picture.