A weird premise - secondhand shopping has been around forever. I also think people will police themselves (the article talks about no gendered labels on clothing racks), I can imagine some guys looking through a rack and joking about the intermix of clothes - no such conversation would happen between women.
I can live with that. I do find "authentic self" a bit cringey, though. Like, these are clothes, people, not a lifestyle!As long as you live your authentic self, that's the coolest style. Fashion is freedom of expression.
I feel like while this is true, for the majority of people this is another point to ridicule the past rather than expand one's understanding.“The fact that gender in fashion is constructed is made very apparent in the history lesson you get while looking through thrift racks,” he says. “You’re looking at items from different time periods when men’s trends have become women’s trends and vice versa.” This also normalizes a gender-fluid shopping experience for generations to come.
The article is mainly focused on queerness/LGBTQIA+ but I think it has some points that are relevant, especially what they say about retailers jumping into the space.