Would you ok your son wearing a dress?

It wouldn’t be a natural reaction, its learned behaviour.

People should be able to wear what they want. I don't find men wearing make up and dresses attractive at all, but that's just me and my opinion is kept to myself. Men should wear what they want, just as women should wear what they want.

No I wouldn’t.

I would be embarrassed to see my son in a dress it would be a natural reaction.

Why would you be embarrassed by it?

No I would not feel comfortable with my son wearing a dress honestly I'd be embarrassed for him and me.

Nope, no problem with DS in a dress, tutu or anything else. Dragons are popular at the moment. Mind you, even the adults dress up in our house and I had to have The Talk last year with DH after he stole and wrecked my favourite bra for a Britney Spears skit with his mates.

A lot of my male, hetro friends at uni often had a skirt or cloches for nights out. It was frankly more dangerous to wear a kilt if you were non-scottish!

My brother used to wear my old dresses when we were kids. This wasn't in an especially forward thinking area. Other kids made comments at first, then they just got used to it. I'm very glad we weren't brought up by some of the people on here.

I recently sent my dad some cute photos of the dcs dressing up. Ds was wearing an Elsa dress in one picture and my dad told me "you need to put a stop to that". I challenged him by asking if he would say the same if dd was wearing a super hero costume and he was stumped by that.
I would worry about ds if he wanted to wear a dress out in public when he gets older as I'd worry about bullying. When he's an adult though that up to him.

Gawd, you must be young; some of us here have already lived through the time when women were often criticised for wearing trousers in public. I had open complaints from employer , other teachers, and even neighbours.

I said this on another thread today, but on World Book Day my 10 year old DS wore a massive pink princess dress and, as far as I could tell, literally no one gave a shit. He is a pretty popular and largely very gender conforming boy with a slight penchant for dresses/jewellery/make up and we have never made a big deal of it either way. Inside, I was a bit worried about him wearing the dress as I was a bit worried he would change his mind before going to school, or that kids would make fun of him, but he totally confidently walked to school wearing it, it wasn't even an issue, and he said people liked the outfit but no one said much either way. He doesn't seem to be into dresses for every day wear which I know is a different kettle of fish, but he is definitely drawn to some more 'feminine stuff' sometimes, and I hoping that I will just be able to allow him to go with what he wants.

but boys - as children - wearing dresses its just not right

I don't get why you need a specific set of genitals to be able to wear a dress or a trousers, tbh.

Sons can wear what they want. Youngest spent most of nursery in a princess dress. He is now a teen, hasn't asked for any dresses recently but I wouldn't mind. His dad used to wear flowery skirts occasionally (90s, art college).

boys - as children - wearing dresses its just not right

Why?

I'd be fine with it. I'd be a bit worried about him being teased but so long as he was aware that there was a decent possibility of that happening and still wanted to go ahead with it then of course I'd be fine with it.

I couldn't give a flying fuck, and I say that honestly, not as anonymous voice on screen.

My 9yo likes wearing my wedding dress, nail varnish, pink, hearts, My Little Ponies (well, he's outgrown them). Also guns, tanks, planes, TNT, Just Add Magic TV programme, marble runs, Among Us... He's a complex soul like anyone.

Unfortunately he wouldn't wear a dress/skirt out as he's worried he'd get picked on.

For me, it would depend where he wanted to wear it. Out on the town in a liberal uni city (where I went to uni, nobody would have batted an eyelid), dressed up to the nines with all his mates? Absolutely fine. To a Sunday afternoon, village pub footie match with his dad? I'd advise against it because he'd be ridiculed.

So whilst, in principle, I will always encourage my two boys to be and wear what they want/feel comfortable in, there would be times I might try and steer them in a 'safer' direction.

Mind you he's a) autistic and b) home ed. So he's not really mixing with the sort of kids who would ridicule him for wearing sparkles. Most of the kids we mix with are similar in taste anyway!

Only inside the house, not outside. That would be to protect him from bullying, we do not live in a 'progressive' area, people generally follow the gender dress codes and roles.
I don't think there's anything wrong with it though. One of my sons used to like wearing girls clothes, lots of pink glittery shit and impersonating the models on ANTM. Fine indoors but his life would have been made a misery if anyone else had seen him.

Well yes, I don't know why this is even a question. DS used to have a couple of dresses in with the rest of his clothes because he liked pretty and velvety things. He used to wear them over a pair of trousers sometimes. Now he's older he doesn't want to wear dresses but he still loves a bit of bling and sparkle on his clothes so often ends up with tops from the "girls" section as they have all the glitter and sequins He knows he's a boy though and he knows that clothes are just clothes and that he can wear the ones he likes so long as they cover the important bits of his body, are appropriate for the weather, and don't have offensive slogans or images on.

I was a teenager in the 80s, young adult in the 90s. It’s nothing new. Truly mystified by all this fuss. Clothes are for expressing belonging or not belonging or arsiness or whatever a person wants.

If my adult son wore a dress I'd think, up to you. My 10yo, I'd want to protect him from the ridicule.