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00:00What's the best way for a man to get on the cover of U.S. Vogue?
00:04Well, you could try wearing a custom Gucci gown. In 2020, Harry Styles was the first man in
00:10127 years to grace the cover of this magazine, and he did so in this big ruffled number with windswept hair.
00:17A man wearing a dress?
00:20Oh!
00:21Ben Shapiro tweeted that it was a referendum on masculinity.
00:25Candace Owens tweeted that it was an outright attack. Piers Morgan was more concerned that if men started wearing dresses,
00:31women wouldn't fancy them anymore.
00:34Trust me, there's gonna be a lot of women going, ooh ooh.
00:37But many also loved Harry in layers of frothy lace.
00:40His cover practically broke the internet. Vogue said that within just over a week of the Harry cover being published,
00:47they had 40,000 new subscribers.
00:49It was a moment reminiscent of when famous women such as Marlene Dietrich and Audrey Hepburn
00:54started wearing trousers before women in trousers hit the mainstream.
00:58But Harry isn't the first man to wear a dress. Billy Porter wore this dress just a year before Harry's cover at the Academy Awards.
01:04In fact, he felt a little slighted that Harry was seen as the great boundary breaker, saying he was overlooked.
01:11Basically because he's not white and straight. It is however debatable whether anyone should be batting an eyelid in the first place at a
01:18man wearing a dress, because men have worn dresses across many eras and cultures, from the ancient Greeks to Kurt Cobain.
01:25Also, although you'd never catch a devout member of the manosphere getting into a pair of high heels,
01:31heels were originally made for men in the Persian cavalry.
01:34Could this Vogue cover be a glimpse at the future, a brighter future,
01:39where men wear dresses and frankly whatever they want, when they're getting a bit bored of
01:46this.
01:47There's not many things that the male gender needs liberating from, but maybe their limited options ranging from trousers to jeans to chinos to skinny
01:55jeans is one of them. It might be happening.
01:58Recently, Paul Mezgal turned out in an array of little cardies for his Gladiators press tour.
02:03Because nothing says you're comfortable with your masculinity and the shape of your biceps like a teeny tiny cardigan. Or perhaps this.
02:10Or a see-through shirt.
02:17You