Personally, and this is my opinion, T-shirts do not count because they're not "constructed" garments the way that mens' shirts and womens' blouses are (although mens' blouses do exist in limited contexts). T-shirts are perhaps the ultimate in "unisex" garb; I also take them to be synonymous with grunge (viz. medical "scrubs").SkirtedViking wrote:[... S]ince women wear also the alredy mentioned items(men's t-shirts,etc.) and it is ok,men must have the same options.
Properly done, a man's shirt should follow the contours of his torso. Unfortunately, the last time I actually witnessed such a garment that wasn't a custom job was in the very early 1980s; nowadays, the only fare that your average wage-slave can find fit like tents. Womens' tops (be they blouses or shirts -- the main difference is whether they have "tails" or not) are cut to follow the line of the female torso -- quite a different thing than that of the male -- and, hence, are not terribly well suited for male wear. On the second topic, I've "been there and tried that" with a positively splendid waistcoat of my wife's that she was willing to transfer to me as it doesn't fit her any longer. I didn't much worry about the garment buttoning "the wrong way" (being mostly ambidextrous it wasn't a concern); it was that there was one heck of a lot of "free space" "up top" that I could not fill and have look good. That put the kibosh on that idea, but I may still make another run at the garment if (1) she's willing and (2) I can find a professional who can do the proper "mod" on the first try (and anybody that says that purple brocade cannot look "masculine" is off his rocker).
Once one gets beyond unisex cuts (T-shirts) and stretchy fabrics (sweaters -- if not "pre-stretched") the similarities end really quickly -- that's one of the things that tends to bedevil the concept of a man's dress; what does a man do with the vast flat expanse that makes up most blokes' chest area? In my mind at least, something should at least fit the body that's wearing it, and, face it, guys just aren't terribly interesting to look at (in a topological sense) between the neck and the waist.SkirtedViking wrote:Some women's tops do not require the parts that you imply as breast and so on,just such tops are different and more variable.