junglr:

oceanmaster:

scrapscallion:

When we talk about androgynous fashion, we usually mean female-presenting people in outfits that incorporate or echo menswear. One seldom sees male-presenting people doing the same with womenswear, at least in the mainstream.

I think some of that must be a side effect of the privileging of traits, roles, and characteristics associated with masculinity over those associated with femininity—a woman in masculine-associated roles or clothing is moving in the direction of higher status and increased social privilege, at least implicitly; a man in feminine-associated roles or clothing, lower. We associate women in menswear with freedom and assertion; men in womenswear with deviation, grotesquerie, and parody.

How fucked up is that?

Man holy shit, this guy pulls this off so well.

Agree with the above message too, all good.

Okay but he’s not wearing women’s clothes. He’s just mixing centuries. Which I think is creative and interesting. In order to mix centuries and infuse them with a modern fashion sense, it’s true that he has to acquire some articles from the women’s section. But he’s dressed in traditionally male fashion right now, according to the ~17th/18th centuries.

He has shapely legs, which I is maybe making people think he’s wearing women’s garments on them, but that is just the shape of his legs. He’s very attractive.

Social power dynamics are real, not imagined. A woman adopting socially recognized power-symbols (a tie, pants, whatever) makes sense. I don’t think that those things should be power symbols, but they are, because we live in a patriarchy.
I have to wonder why a man, someone who inherently benefits from living in a patriarchy, would want to dress “below his station.” Every crossdresser and transgendered person (and I know they’re not the same thing, but both are cases of starting from a place of privilege, and willingly descending the social ladder rather than ascending it) I have ever met or known has been a misogynist.

They don’t respect women’s right to personal space, her right to say ‘No’ to sex, or her right to a unique identity.
“Women are like this,” and they dress up to varying degrees, and adopt typically negative attitudes which are commonly associated with women in our society. Cattiness, jealousy, irrationality. And, perhaps most telling, it is always sexual. Sexy stockings, miniskirts, revealing dresses, high-heeled shoes. Dressing like a woman means dressing for sex.

Black people wearing business suits is normal.
But a white guy in tatters and blackface? That’s not okay. Think about why that’s not okay.
Women are oppressed in our society. Until that changes, I’m not comfortable with men wearing woman-costumes.

Silence of the Lambs.

Thank you and goodnight.

P.S. I’m open to dialogue on this topic, if you’re interested in engaging me.

Reblog for relevancy.

(Source: boysofmontreal)