Broadcast :  Ma vie est une aventure

 

Date : Saturday May 12, 2007 at 5.25 pm

 

Presenter :  Cecile Gauthier

 

Guest : Jean-March Ferrer, editor

 

Reporter : Martin Ducros

Jerome is a boy who wears skirts. He does it only by personal comfort. He must fight against prejudices and chose to militate actively for this natural clothing style, because for a long time before men had worn skirts.

 

 

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BEFORE THE REPORT :

- Cecile Gauthier: Jean-Marc, what would you  say if you meet in the streets of Limoges a boy who wears skirt ?

- Jean-Marc Ferrer: But why not?

- Cecile Gauthier: why not, Jerome Salome does it. Watch it, it is a portrait signed Martin Ducros.

 

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REPORT: (place of shooting and Jerome’s talking)

 

A walk in Limoges:

In France, there are many prejudices which of we cannot get rid of because people are used to them.

We are not used to seeing a man wearing skirt in our society and at this era so we will invent things about the one who wears a skirt.

 

 

 

 

In a clothing store :

The idea came to me, when I was at college, when summer was rather hot, and I can say that I was jealous of the girls who wore skirt, while we had to suffer in our trousers

 

Back to limoges’ streets :

The biggest barriers are the prejudices, i.e. to think that a man who wears skirts is homosexual or wishes to become a woman. Even if I knew that my will to wear skirts was for comfort, I was afraid that everyone looks at me, that everyone insults me. And at the end, I realized that 90% of the people I met did not have any negative reactions.

 

Jerome in front of his computer :

Often, when I come back from work, I kiss my wife, my children and I tell them “I will put myself at ease”.

Jerome’s fashion show:

The trousers have a seam, which goes up until the crotch, and when we sit down, the seam gives us less space for our anatomy. For me, the difference between a skirt and trousers is due only to one wire, that of the seam of the trousers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jérôme devant son ordinateur montrant son site :

 

Dans l’histoire, les hommes ont porté des jupes, donc pendant des millénaires. Cela va des égyptiens qui portaient le pagne, les rois qui portaient des robes, aux soldats qui portaient des tuniques. Et encore aujourd’hui dans certains pays, comme par exemple les Indonésiens qui porte le sarong au quotidien.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jerome sewing at home :

 

 

 

 

Back to the street in Limoges :

I am a normal man with normal morals.  I am heterosexual I have a wife, children, everything goes well in my work. I am like anyone else.

 

 

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AFTER REPORT ON THE BROADCAST : 

    - Cecile Gauthier: He’s got nerves this boy no?
    - Jean-Marc Ferrer: Yes, I think that the originality is initially a question of self-assurance. Finally, he is not out of phases, we are!
    - Cecile Gauthier: He is not
    - Jean-Marc Ferrer: No

    - Cecile Gauthier: He assumes his choice in fact.

    - Jean-Marc Ferrer: Exactly, that is the difference: to be able to assume its own difference, to be able to be accepted by the others. It is a beautiful lesson of tolerance.
    - Cecile Gauthier: Completely. 

 

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Jerome’s note :

This report was filmed at the end of February/at the beginning of March 2007 by Martin DUCROS’ team, very sympathetic, with whom I spent a good time and who manage to put me at ease (almost) faces to the camera.

 
I would like to thank France 3, Martin DUCROS, Cecile GAUTHIER, Jean-Marc FERRER and France 3’s team who have by, either the report or their remarks in the broadcast, emphasizes positively the fact that men could wear skirt.

 

 

Liens :

 

 

- Blog de l'émission