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‘Wear a skirt, be your own hero’: four men on their first time wearing the garment

From red carpets to skate parks, skirts are finding their way into more men’s wardrobes. Here, men share the fun and freedom they’ve found in wearing them

It was so bad I thought I needed stitches and I didn’t have a first-aid kit easily accessible, so I called my youngest brother, who was working as a junior doctor at a nearby hospital. Of course, it helps that he’s handsome and that he was riding his bike across Melbourne’s inner north but the experience – from his expertise as a “grown up” medical professional to his assuredness in his own feminine-masculinity – left me full of pride at the person he is. Andy Kelly thought he was a one-man revolution when skateboarding in a skirt in his late teensKelly, who is also the designer for Brud Studia and more than 180cm tall, doesn’t shy away from attention.

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