Since writing the article Skirt silhouettes and styling for men back in 2024, I have continued to observe outfits in passing. I've been observing which outfits look natural on the body, and those which subconsciously look strange to me.

In doing this, I have noticed some trends that make outfits look awkward, which are listed below. These are easily addressed once one is aware of them.

Within this article, I use the term 'skirt' as gender-neutral term for all garments covering the legs with one section. The term 'kilt' I use to refer to the Scottish garment and direct descendants, a wrap skirt with a flat front and pleats in the back and sides.

A dress of the correct design, is among the most comfortable things that anyone, regardless of gender, can wear in hot weather. Learn how to find, or make garments that work harmoniously with a male body.

Neurodiversity refers to how people's brains can perceive, process and interact with the world around them in different ways. These differences exist due to genetic factors, and from the perspective of any individual's lived experience (how it feels from their perspective to 'exist'), differences are often invisible. They have always been there for that individual.

Conflicts can arise when different neurotypes interact, one person's behaviour may be confusing to another person, and this can lead to individuals having difficulty accessing, and interacting with social groups, or having their intentions misunderstood. Yet these difficulties may be overcome with some general awareness.

Rigidly structured educational courses do not work for me. I am able to learn things perfectly effectively, but how I learn is different.

For me, learning always begins when something catches my attention: ' this thing looks interesting and I want to do that'

Social mirroring may be a good way of developing social skills directly within the contexts that they will be applied.

Should you have watched a video of an American contra dance you may have noticed that it is not uncommon to see male dancers wearing skirts, but how did this originate?

In wanting to wear skirts at contra dances, one question I asked myself was how to do so without looking ridiculous - after all men wearing skirts can often look weird. Is that just a matter of 'we are not used to seeing it', or are there other factors?

Twirly skirts are a great aspect of contra dancing, flowing naturally with one's movements and generally looking awesome. Every contra dancer should be able to wear one if they want, why not?

Due to a having a high baseline anxiety, I'm always thinking about what may happen or go wrong in the future, and because of this I only feel safe when I'm fully doing things voluntarily, of my own volition.

I believe that autism is a biologically evolved neurological specialization, a trait that makes individuals predisposed to being good at some kinds of task, and worse at others. Using this idea, we can start making changes to work with differences in a positive way.

Myself and Louise Siddions, a widely known contra caller, conducted a survey into the skirts people enjoy for contra dancing.

I find it odd that the common software for writing documents are still based around a model of pages of paper. Writing in this way forces a conflation of writing and layout, causing a ton of valueless work.

A number of programming lectures that I found especially valuable.

I describe an implementation of a drag and drop list using pointer events from first principles.