Mark Bryan heads out every morning to his engineering job in southern Germany wearing a blazer, tie… and a pencil skirt with stilettos. 👠 He is 61 years old, heterosexual, married, the father of three children, and the grandfather of four grandchildren. And he does not do it as a protest or political statement: he does it because he likes it.
Bryan arrived in Texas with a completely conventional closet, but he moved to Germany in 2010 and began rediscovering his wardrobe. He started with heels in college, added skirts around 2020, and today he gets on the train in a pencil skirt with the same ease that others wear dress pants. His argument is simple: men’s fashion is gray, literally — black, navy blue, gray — while women’s fashion offers a universe of options. His wife not only accepts the situation; she helps him choose his outfits. 🤝
Since he went viral on Instagram, he has been receiving more than 100 direct messages a day and has appeared in Vogue Germany. Clothes, he says, do not define who you are. With 134 thousand likes on a single post, it seems that many people agree. 🔥
