Men's skirts

Sumerian men's skirt (Kaunakes), ca. 3.000 BC
A modern utility kilt

Outside Western cultures, men's clothing commonly includes skirts and skirt-like garments; however, in the Americas and much of Europe, skirts are usually seen as feminine clothing and socially stigmatized for men and boys to wear, despite having done so for centuries. While there are exceptions, most notably the cassock and the kilt, these are not generally considered skirts in the typical sense of fashion wear; rather they are worn as cultural and vocational garments. Advocates for the wearing of skirts by men seek to remove this gender distinction.