Cargo skirts in equally traffic-stopping shades ... "It was used mainly as a runway statement," said Alice Feillard, men's buying director at Galeries Lafayette, a Ouest stockist.

And yet, “manly men have worn skirts to battle and been victorious. “I would buy them a beer in heaven or hell.” What we wear ...

Men are more likely to put off buying new undergarments in a fiscally ... When Dior released long, voluminous skirts in 1947, the trend seemed to foreshadow the recession of 1949.