You wrote: "So why are dresses so out of fashion in everyday life?". Perhaps that's the case in the UK. Here in Vancouver, dresses are still in. And very much so in Montreal. A little bit of La belle France. Cant speak for the US but as 38% of the US population is considered obese, that could be part of the problem. Men wearing dresses, apart from the Scots? you lose me there. But, I'm a little old fashioned that way.