 Men rarely went as far in the adoption of traditionally female dress modes.The furthest that most men went in the 1960s in this regard were velvet trousers, flowered or frilled shirts and ties, and long hair.In the 1970s, David Hall, a former research engineer at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), actively promoted the use of skirts for men, appearing on both "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and the "Phil Donahue Show".