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The Colombian J Balvin a few days ago showed himself before her followers on Instagram with a skirt, to which segments of fabric can be added or removed, allowing it to go from being a mini skirt to becoming a wide skirt to the floor.
In American culture, it is not common for men to wear skirts as part of their wardrobe, but more and more fashion has fewer limits and certain styles are no longer taboo. At least several celebrities such as J Balvin or Bad Bunny wear it very naturally.
In the case of J Balvin, this week he left himself behind. see on Instagram in four styles of skirts.However, it is not the first time that the Colombian urban exponent upsets the users of social networks by wearing skirts or dresses and causing discussions due to conflicting opinions.
His incorporation into this trend was more than It’s been a year promoting his song “Another night without you” He stood next to Khalid, preceding a sequence of different occasions where the most recent occurred. on Sunday by posting on Instagram a set of four photos with various styles, including showing off his legs.
The notion “pants for boys, skirts for girls” It is a speech that has been much discussed, but that is stirred up every time a man, especially if he is a tall celebrity, comes out in the public eye dressed in anything other than pants. .
With this of J Balvin, returns to the public debate that was once in Listín Diario: were dresses made for men?
The reality is that the whole idea of skirts having a gender, specifically women’s clothing, was sparked by a combination of tailoring innovation and particular occupations. The tradition of men wearing cloth coats, skirts, tunics, and other items other than pants is vast and ancient.
Today, it’s considered noticeable and even gender nonconforming when a man wears a skirt, from the aforementionedJaden Smith to Mark Bryan, an Instagram influencer whose posts in button-up blazers, dress skirts and heels often go viral in the same way that Balvin is now and the idol of the Latin urban movement, Bad Bunny, with his photographs and cover for Allure magazine.
+ Bad Bunny
In addition to posing for Allure’s photos, Bad Bunny used She wore a skirt during the performance of her song with Sech on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon”, for several of her own audiovisual videos and even in her dress for the 2022 Met Gala she used a skirt. a dress.
The reggaeton player regularly wears clothes that could be socially called feminine because of what they tend to attract a lot of attention.
The British singer Harry Styles He is the first man to appear alone on the cover of Vogue magazine and he did so wearing several skirts and a dress.
While, the actor Vin Diesel wore a dress. his legs at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 2003.
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Jaden Smith, the son of famous actor Will Smith, is one of its most fervent defenders. According to him, it is a fight for the freedom to dress without gender bias.
Jaden has been a model for the women’s collection of Louis Vuitton and sometimes on his social networks he publishes photos of himself with dresses.
“In five years, when children go to school wearing a skirt, no one will bother them.” or he will attack them thus. I am bearing the brunt (of the criticism) by being the first, in such a way that my children and future generations will think that certain things are normal, although in my time they were not” , affirmed six years ago in an interview with Nylon magazine.
+ Kanye West
American rapper Kanye West didn’t either he is afraid to wear fada. He has done it several times publicly. One of the most famous was a few years ago when he wore a Givenchy signature garment.
The creative director of the French house, Riccardo Tisci, was in charge of creating the complete design of the musical work “Ni**as In Paris”; by the rapper in collaboration with Jay-Z.
That the musician opted for an outfit from the firm to attend the macro-concert organized by the victims of Hurricane Sandy on December 12 would have passed as an almost unnoticed gesture among the avalanche of extravagances to which The artist has accustomed us, if it weren’t for one small detail: for the occasion, Kanye chose a leather kilt over pants, with a matching black XL sweatshirt; reviewed then Hola magazine.
‘Kanye’s skirt’, which came to have its own account thanks to the immediate collaboration of some fan, went around the world in just a few minutes, he reported. Hello.
The actor and singer Jared Leto is also known for wearing similar skirts in his concerts, and who even stated: “I admit it: I lent my skirt to Kanye”.
+ The Dominicans
On the other hand, in the Dominican Republic there is a palpable precedent for this trend and, contrary to the examples provided, it is not something new and They even had a greater impact for the time because they were conservative and revolutionary.
One of the first to be remembered was Tulile.Two other more recent examples: the merengueros Toño Rosario and El Jeffrey, the urban Kiko el Crazy and the communication magnate, Santiago Matías Alofoke, who has worn a skirt during several presentations on the mother program of your chain and even in interviews outside your medium.
In 2012, during a farewell to the year presented by the Telemicro Group, before thousands of spectators, the emblematic brother Rosario came out. on stage in the traditional show in a somewhat daring outfit loaded with leather clothing, panties and a skirt. that those present enjoyed the 15-minute fireworks show, after which Toño interpreted his most popular songs, which were sung by the human sea that gathered at the great party.
In September 2021, Kiko el Crazy got dressed feminine. The urban exponent was shown In skirt. That was enough, according to him, to be rejected by colleagues from urban music who did not want to record with him.
“I have been rejected for wearing skirts, my respects to the LGBT community because they are people, they live in their world and they don’t mess with anyone. I’m not gay and if some artists don’t want to collaborate because they wear skirts, I can’t imagine what they’ll be like with that community, wow I never thought I’d feel discrimination”, he commented. the interpreter who since then is as usual to see him in a skirt as in pants.
However, Kiko clarified that she is not gay: & ldquo; Sure, I have a son, a wife and I’m a street tiger, one thing has nothing to do with the other, but in the process of my album, #Llegoeldomi, some Latin music artists have rejected me for wear skirts”.
Last October, merengue singer El Jeffrey in the television program “De Extremo A Extremo”, which is broadcast on Digital 15, wearing a pink lace skirt with other very colorful shades.
Jeffrey explained that when wearing a skirt “I try to do different things”, since she likes to “please my fans, give a good show without lacking moral and ethical values”.
The merengue player expressed then what the skirt in men is typical of the culture of Scotland and that by adding it to his look he only seeks to be “original and avant-garde”; as an artistic figure.
“I want to tell all my fans that I am an artist. that from my beginnings I have been avant-garde an original artist with my essence faithfully believer of God what? I have always adapted to the new times”, expressed the merenguero through a message on their social networks.