{"id":6654,"date":"2009-03-13T08:11:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=6654"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:54:57","slug":"dear-abby-and-utilikilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/03\/13\/dear-abby-and-utilikilts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Abby and Utilikilts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4320,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.uexpress.com\\\/dearabby\\\/?uc_full_date=20081231&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20120712223046\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.uexpress.com:80\\\/dearabby\\\/?uc_full_date=20081231&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.uexpress.com\\\/dearabby\\\/?uc_full_date=20081231&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 13:02:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 13:02:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4321,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.uexpress.com\\\/dearabby\\\/?uc_full_date=20090312&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090318063223\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.uexpress.com:80\\\/dearabby\\\/?uc_full_date=20090312&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.uexpress.com\\\/dearabby\\\/?uc_full_date=20090312&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 13:02:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 13:02:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4322,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.utilikilts.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260101183407\\\/https:\\\/\\\/utilikilts.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 03:25:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 11:15:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 05:25:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:06:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 18:22:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 06:38:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 08:57:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 19:56:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 09:58:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 01:31:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-08 08:57:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-13 03:49:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-22 00:47:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-22 00:47:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uexpress.com\/dearabby\/?uc_full_date=20081231\" title=\"Dear Abby: MAN'S FASHION STATEMENT DRAWS DERISION FROM FAMILY MEMBERS\">Last December<\/a>, Dear Abby heard from a gent who&#8217;s found he&#8217;s far more comfortable in skirts than pants, and was looking for advice on how to deal with his unsupportive family. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uexpress.com\/dearabby\/?uc_full_date=20090312\" title=\"Dear Abby: OLD-FASHIONED FASHION ENJOYS A COMEBACK: SKIRTS FOR MEN\">yesterday&#8217;s column<\/a>, she passes on lots of words of encouragement from others who&#8217;ve escaped the tyranny of trousers, and specifically mentions a certain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utilikilts.com\/\" title=\"Utilikilts\">local menswear company<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I heard from men and women across the United States and beyond who wrote supporting Joe in his decision to wear skirts. Many of them suggested he contact Utilikilts, a company based in Seattle, which manufactures a line of kilts for the modern man. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uexpress.com\/dearabby\/?uc_full_date=20090312\" title=\"Dear Abby: OLD-FASHIONED FASHION ENJOYS A COMEBACK: SKIRTS FOR MEN\">Read on&#8230;<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It should come as no surprise that I wholeheartedly support her in this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8217;s column, Dear Abby passes on lots of words of encouragement from others who&#8217;ve escaped the tyrrany of trousers, and specifically mentions a certain local menswear company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39,573],"class_list":["post-6654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links","tag-utilikilt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}