Boys in skirts
Jethro, you looked so pretty and innocent when you were dressed like a little girl. But how did it feel?
posted by Alp at Friday, May 19, 2006
19 May 2006
Jethro, you looked so pretty and innocent when you were dressed like a little girl. But how did it feel?
About this
Something unusual was happening in SW Wales when I was a child – subcultures, social experiments, naked hippies dancing around maypoles. I'm researching a PhD project into remembrances of things past - how our sense of the past informs our sense of self. This enquiry presumes that the past is not fixed, rather it is partly constructed through a shared or collective consciousness, which is why I’m inviting you now to share your memories of certain events, moments, and ideas. A childhood in Wales gave a lot of us a unique experience and a lot of the ‘hippy’ kids, I think, have a wonderfully insightful way of perceiving and interacting with the world. But we also have a very different past from many of our peers, and some ‘site specific’ hang-ups! There were some amazingly off-the-wall characters around and some pretty weird shit happened. I’d like to know which bits you remember, in words and photos. Some of this stuff might be sensitive, so if you are posting photos or texts or relevant transcripts or notes or poems or songs (you could scan them or send them to me ‘snail-mail’ – I will be very careful) onto this weblog please be aware of that, and do so with an open mind.Previous Posts
3 Comments:
hardly fair to ask J about how he feels himself. More interesting to ask how he felt to others when skirted
that was just me teasing my bro. he was SUPPOSED TO REACT!
I distinctly remember Martina knitting Jethro his own skirt - I think it was maroon. My underprivileged little brother had to ask to borrow my dresses and, I recall, perform various favours in order to access my favourite ones. (Well, maybe just the once.)
But, more seriously, we were lucky we went to a school where a boy in a skirt wouldn't get a second glance. I'm not sure how I'd deal with a son wanting to wear a dress to the local primary these days. I may agree with Eddie Izzard's demands for 'total clothing rights' but Ysgol Gynradd Rhydlewis is hardly Albro!
Kirsti
Incidentally the little boy has now grown up into an 18 stone cauliflower eared rugger bugger, but still maintains an interest in well ventilated women's clothing. [Yes, thank you Ian]
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