For years I have noticed many young men walking around in brightly colored nylon mini dresses. I should explain that my eyesight is not great and that I have never watched any sport involving teams of men playing with balls.

Well it turns out these are not dresses at all. They are vests, otherwise known as singlets or tank tops or A-Shirts, and they are derived from the uniforms worn by basketball players.

What I was observing was these tank tops being worn by people of smaller size. In other words the shirts were far too big for them and worn over matching nylon shorts, also very baggy in design, to the extent you cannot easily see there are two legs, and they appear as pleated nylon skirts.

The resulting appearance was therefore that of a man wearing a large, sleeveless, nylon, knee-length dress.

So now I know why they don’t also wear makeup and high heels with their dresses. They have no idea they even look like men in dresses.

(Photos blurred to simulate silly old fart’s eyesight)