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Guardian article on genderless clothing
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 6:36 am
by TheRod
Article on genderless clothing here.
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/202 ... nd-a-label
Not really relevant to us here as it's all about trans and non binary clothing with no mention cis men seeking genderless clothing.
Re: Guardian article on genderless clothing
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 9:42 am
by ScotL
Cis men wearing what they want. Clothing has no gender.
Re: Guardian article on genderless clothing
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:31 pm
by Sinned
I like, and agree with, the quote, "Any article of clothing should be for anyone who wants to wear it."
Also, "The gender of a piece of clothing is whatever gender you feel when you wear it, and not that you have to fit into the gender of that piece.”
Re: Guardian article on genderless clothing
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:59 pm
by crfriend
Sinned wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:31 pmI like, and agree with, the quote, "Any article of clothing should be for anyone who wants to wear it."
Also, "The gender of a piece of clothing is whatever gender you feel when you wear it, and not that you have to fit into the gender of that piece.”
Yes on one, and no on two. One is plainly obvious; two is plainly false for 90+% of the population who has roughly normative alignment.
Contemplate the situation for a bit. A person that "flips" (perhaps unconsciously) from "male" to "female" alignment poses some problems. If such an individual is "out and about" in male-marketed garb in "male" mode and then the "bit" flips to "female" it doesn't much matter; however, the inverse is not true at all because if a "conventional male" found himself garbed in "female"-marketed clothes he'd be mortified.
First and foremost,
Know thyself! It would seem that in the modern world, not enough do. Furthermore, clothing is an inanimate, insentient object and thus can have no conceivable notion of its own "gender". Put bluntly, take the clothing off and you'll be confronted with what you wound up with at birth [0]; it's what you do with it that counts.
[0] In most cases.