Why don't more girls wear dresses?

P.s. you can take your comments about being more 'feminine' and stick them right up your backside. Dresses might be seen as traditionally female but lots of cultures have male clothing that's a similar length and appearance to some dresses. Scots wear kilts. And male children were dressed as girls until they were about seven in the victorian period. Think on that.

This doesn't make any sense. Scottish men look masculine in kilts for a number of reasons. For one, a kilt isn't even remotely similar to a dress (it is traditionally worn with a shirt, waistcoat and jacket - hardly a feminine ensemble). More importantly, kilts are masculine because they are traditionally masculine. The mere fact that men and women wear different clothes in other cultures does not mean dresses aren't feminine.

You would need a few dresses as otherwise it could look a bit smelly but on the whole you could get away with 4-5. More obviously would be better but they can be had pretty cheap these days so no big deal. Easier than having to decide what to mix & match, pulling it in and out and putting on at least two separate garments surely.

It's just fabric and means literally nothing more than the meaning society has decided to give it at that particular time.

Precisely. It means what society has decided it means. If a man wants to wear a dress, I don't care - the mere fact that a man can look good in a dress doesn't mean it isn't a feminine item of clothing.

If you wore traditional (masculine) highland dress, you would look more masculine, yes. Because you would be wearing masculine clothes.

Nobody is making mountains out of molehills or suggesting that everyone has to dress a certain way. Half of your post is arguing against nobody.

Well then, we'll just have to agree to disagree in the vein of keeping things nice and civil. You are as much entitled to think women look nice in dresses as I am to tell you that people wear whatever the hell they want and it's not for us, random people on the internet, to decide what people should or shouldn't wear. People wear whatever makes them comfortable and that's great. Nothing more to it than that.

I'm not sure we can "agree to disagree" when nothing you've said disagrees with me. You are arguing against opinions I never expressed. Do not pretend to "keep things civil" while lying about what I have said.

I've been wondering more & more about this one recently. Not only are dresses way more feminine than jeans or jean shorts, or cloth leggings surely they are way more convenient. I mean it's an all in one garment, a bit like a onesie but way more classier. A good dress can look wonderful on even a n average girl and make her look great. So it's way quicker and easier to put on than jeans & t-shirt or whatever. So why don't way more girls wear dresses???

As a guy to dress classy apparently tends to be something in the direction of a shirt and smart/smart-casual trousers. Now I think I'm not alone in not many guys wanting to bother with that in their spare time. To look decent most shirts need to be tucked in, now that's a pain, it feels like being a stuffed turkey. It's all shoved down there and feels uncomfortable, not necessarily in a major way but not comfortable in a relaxed way. A dress as far as I can see suffers from no discomfort problem like that, it's just a quick one on and that's it, looks and wears nice and easy I would have thought. Also none of this problem with the shirt pulling out over the course of the day. Sometimes I can't understand why the shirt is bothered with in any quarter at all it's so impractical. Does it really look all that great to women?

Would be interested to hear thoughts of girls & guys on this.

I would because I love them but my calves are awfully big compared to my thighs and top half, so it's impossible to feel good in one.

OP didn't specify the length of dress The longer the dress, the less likely the upskirting and so on.

The truth is, dresses used to fall into that category of pieces of clothing that served as social equalisers. With dresses it doesn't matter what your legs are like, you won't be constantly judged on that (unless like Diana you're silly enough to pose for the paps with the sun behind you). Similar functions were served by corsets (ironing out breast/waist differences), and for men by turbans and wigs (can't tell who's balding or greying).

To be honest, I always prefer dresses, and all my friends wear jeans. I like their style but I feel like I suit more to dresses than jeans so I choose the former nothing deep tbh. But in the UK jeans are better especially when it's cold. Also for dresses, I need shorts, tights etc. For jeans, you can just mix and match tops and jeans easy.

Can't believe someone thought it was a good idea to make a thread about this and write paragraphs. Get a job