My name is Dominique Moreau, I am a young forty man ( Yes it exists), I am the father of two little boys in Poitiers, I am a teacher and the President of the association HeJ, I like nature, sports and very attached to conscience and independence of mind.

• What kind of skirts do you wear ?

I only wear skirts or dresses for men, In the interest of gratitude to the few designers who have the courage to offer men an alternative to trousers, of support for them, and because I believe there may be a masculine style in wearing the skirt, certainly not as diverse as one can hope at the moment, but it has already the merit to exist. I also claim the masculine wearing of  a dress, tights and boots, because these accessories were, before, worn by men, were simply borrowed by women, and because, like the skirt, I find it ridiculous to keep men away from dresses, tights or boots, as if these elements were kind of  a poison that could make a man lose his masculinity. It is for me not to fall into segregation as irrational as the one which consists in, for many people, not to imagine a man wearing skirt. I'm looking for clothes that can express my sensibility, not female, but simply human.

I wear dark  skirts or dresses during winter, because there’s nothing else, often for men ( another stereotype).Skirts are long, mid-long, short (above knees) or  very short (50cm). I can wear long skirt in winter or mid-season, with socks. I wear short skirts in summer, short or very short in winter and mid-season, and in this case with tights (70 deniers ones hide hair) and sometimes boots. I forbid myself a length if it doesn’t suit me, but not for the principle that a man can’t wear something short. As I am attached to my hair I can’t wear a very short skirt in summer, because tights are not here to dress legs or to refine them.

My idea of wearing a skirt and others is natural: the physical consideration outweighs the social precepts on the one hand, and on the other hand, not wanting to change what nature gave me, I keep my hair in addition to being convinced once again that there is a real beauty of the male wearing a skirt.

• Since when do you wear skirts ?

I wear it since I am 10 years old, but hiding myself till the age of 33 ( age of resurrection…),that’s to say about one quarter of a century of  physical and psychological confinement, and of  cerebral torture ( between guilt and willingness to assert).

• Where do you wear skirts ?

Everywhere: at home, in my family or family in law, at work.  I had to manage this for the sake of physical freedom and intellectual coherence, if I can say that, for reason: freedom, by definition, is inalienable. From there, it can’t be negotiated as long as one does not harm to oneself or to others. But that goal was all the easier to achieve as I wear clothes for man : a credible style, intellectual process as well (as skirts for men existed, still exist, particularly in a state of law, on behalf what could it be  prohibited, except on behalf of arbitrariness, of course, that I obviously fight).

• What was your family’s reaction ?

Anyway, it was them or me. The laws of the Republic take precedence over those of family or other habits and conventions. Argumentation and demonstration of a masculine style (instead of virile, but it is a construct of our society particularly eroticized), I convinced the one who would become my wife, taking great care and show her before marriage. My friends, family or in-laws have either been put in front of the accomplished fact, or been aware of before. I built this in my professional life by a quick demonstration, followed by others of course. But anyway, everyone has the right to change: women who wanted to emancipate themselves were not anymore the ones they were before their marriage.

• Who knows, or not around you ?

Everyone is aware of it and saw me like this, except some friends of my wife who have conservative conceptions and that we see very little, because of distances, it is unnecessary to let them know directly.

• What are the reactions of those who know and of those you meet ?

With hindsight, I believe that this question has no place: from the time when a man is free, where you can not please everyone, when we act in our conscience, certainly by sensitivity, but also with reason, when you trust in yourself and you say that there is only one life, others take us as we are, if they like it or not. Do not live through others, otherwise you are already dead.

But I'll answer anyway. as those who know it met me, I'd rather make a distinction between my family and bystanders. The family has been surprised at first, but he walked as I did before. Anyway, he must realize that I am the same as before, but stronger and more balanced. There must be hypocrites and reserved, but as in all situations and for all people. And then we convince (without searching it of course) some in the short term, others on the long. As bystanders, they show, for 95% good manners: there are looks of course and sometimes comments (mostly some “here comes the shame” from young, obviously very formatted) or laugh (of bitches in 99%), but it goes well in a downtown on a Saturday afternoon.

• Is there a reason why some do not know ?

Yes: the opportunity first. Because even the conservatives should have accepted my existence if they had lived next door to me.

• In your opinion, what style should have a man for its wearing of the skirt is more accepted ?

A man must have a style that corresponds first to its physical: slim or hefty, face slim or not, bearded or not, fine and smooth skin or not, body hair or not. From there, if it is harmonious, it should not be any limit, provided they want to stay male, that is to say not want to copy the female anatomy. The sex is a distinction that should disappear in the choice of clothing for the physical and personality of each, as it is not to be disguised, if it discredits the idea that a man in a skirt is viable. From all these unknowns, we must dress according to our personality. If we adopt a style more prudish and more austere to please, we fall into another straitjacket and pass by the side of his life. Do not be afraid of scandal from the time when there is harmony and sanity: the 1st women in pants made a scandal by breaking the consensus.

• Everything you want to say about the wearing of the skirt.

"Men are born and remain free and equal in rights". This sentence must not be a good formula, but really be the basis of a personal and collective representation.

We must win our freedom, more or less gradually depending on the situation, but with persistence. The anthropologist Margaret Mead said this: "do not believe that a handful of men can change the world. In reality, it's always the way it goes. "Specialists in foresight of the early twentieth century had provided the technological revolutions such as the conquest of space or computers. But they did not anticipate the release of women. On the other hand, it should not be compromised. It is important not

To content of half-measure: in the words of the feminist Virginia Woolf, "it is more important to be yourself than anyone else."
We must think not only in the short and medium term but also long. Consider the short term, it works towards the principle of dressing as we want when we want and wherever we want, and show our contemporaneous than anything else may exist. Thinking through the medium term, is to have no regrets at night is his life. Thinking long term is to serve our successors, laying foundations so that they can potentially put their stone. Be sure that every drop of water is important.

We must dare to take risks, calculated of course, and handled with care on a more or less long, but do not count too much. Do not stay alone, because isolated we are lower. Finally, our approach must be physical and intellectual to be solid, sustainable and credible. Be convinced of the merits of it and let us not destabilize.

LIENS :

• Association HeJ (hommes en jupe)