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A thread for non-gendered clothing

crossthebreeze

crossthebreeze

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A thread about clothes, where to buy them and how to wear them) - clothes that are unisex, gender neutral, or ungendered, clothes that are made to fit a range of different bodytypes, feminine clothes made for men, masculine/butch clothes made for women, clothes made specifically for trans people or specifically for cross-dressers, shops where its easy to try on stuff from what some people may believe is the "wrong" section for you, or which have a good changing rooms policy, tips for where you can get a better fit for a particular bodyshape, and anything else.

This needs to be a supportive thread, and not one for politics.


To start the thread off, if I had lots of money, I would buy some shirts from GFW because they make each shirt for a range of body shapes and sell them in a gender neutral way.

I personally have always found the staff in TK MAXX really helpful compared to many other shops if I'm buying stuff for myself from the men's section, but it would be good to hear other people's experiences.
 
It's interesting (I had the same reaction myself) that our immediate response to a utilitarian, intentionally austere 'antifashion' garment is to 1) want it in different colours, and 2) desire one in an almost covetous fashion. I suspect these are questions the designers want us to ponder though...
 
Workwear - always my default choice. Back in the day, I was an enthusiastic adopter of Mao jackets and cheap cotton overalls (I still have a couple of pairs of white decorators bib trousers). Army trousers and dungarees saw me through the 80s, while I have blue mechanics overalls, my beloved green John Deere ones for the woods, and mostly, for the last 3 decades, I have worn leather trousers and woolly jumpers in winter, cotton drill and pull-on cotton or linen dresses (home-made) in summer...although I am sitting here in a grey Ghost dress atm.

I am not a fashion follower though so, apart from utility, I don't much care. Warmth and comfort beat style, every day, all day...while material and sewing quality has far more bearing on my choices than colour or shape.
I hate shopping and will wear clothes for 30 years or more if they are fit for purpose....such as a gorgeous green loden coat I bought in Germany, some time back in 1974 (for quite a lot of money, tbf)...and still my go-to winter coat.

I have never worn a pair of jeans in my life...or trainers. Uncomfortable, rubbish garments.

Or shorts (I am 60 odd...not 6...)
 
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Ah, soz, crossthebreeze, looked at GFW...and almost instantly closed page after seeing 'Tom-Boi'.

Attack of fogey-ish pursed lips and sniffiness, I know...But nonetheless, I just couldn't

Plus, I have some of those boxer shorts...and they are unwearable unless made of clingy lycra...since the 'legs' shift uncomfortably to occupy that area between one's arse cheeks or roll up into thigh sausages,

Mind, I have never even attempted a 'thong'
 
Dickies are a brand of work clothing. I would have been more on board with Dickies had it not been for the prevalence of polysomething additions to basic cotton...although it seems easy wash 'n' dry scores higher than comfort in modern workwear, these days, as it is difficult to find clothing which has not been extruded from some fibre making tank (as opposed to spun and woven)

Even so, they still score highly on criteria such as fit, pockets, reliable fastenings and ease of movement.
 
When you think about it,the idea of clothes having a gender is fundamentally daft, the only difference between a kilt and a skirt is basically the pattern on it.
for most of its existence the human race didn't bother with clothes and for most of the rest of it, it consisted of whatever had been pinched off the most recent kill. The idea that some clothes are specific to men or women has been around for 100-150 generations at very most.
Yet we're fully conditioned to the idea that there are women's clothes and men's clothes. We went out as a family to eat today to somewhere fancy to celebrate eldest's birthday
It gets driven home in this heat, I wore a smart shirt and trousers, shoes and socks. Mrs MickiQ wore a sun dress and fancy sandals and I dare say she was a lot cooler and more comfortable than I was.
That said of course there is no way on this earth I would wear a sun dress not because I think it's wrong but because my social conditioning is too strong and I don't have enough bottle.
 
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GFW shirts look gorgeous, I need to save some $$

Haute Butch do some nice formal wear but USD650 is out of my price range for a suit rn!

There need to be more gender neutral clothes IMHO. And more pockets.
 
treefrog said:
GFW shirts look gorgeous, I need to save some $$

Haute Butch do some nice formal wear but USD650 is out of my price range for a suit rn!

There need to be more gender neutral clothes IMHO. And more pockets.
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There are never EVER enough pockets in women's clothing. That has pissed me off for so fucking many years! Trouser legs, shirt sleeves - never ever long enough either. I have worn men's clothing for years because of all these things.
 
My daughter (10) really wants a trouser suit, so I'm looking on eBay for boys' suits as there's loads that have only been worn once. They do get snapped up though!
 
well I went in uniqlo the other day to get some jeans and just used the changing room near to the jeans, I dont often use them because it's hassle - not uniqlo just the concept of changing rooms

clothes only have genders in yer own mind unless yer highly influenced by marketing cus thats all it is, I have always shopped from all of the sections because it actually is meaningless

gender expression is as creative as you want it to be init, learning to embellish stuff is good, learning different tailoring cuts and the differences in measurements is good, learning silhouette shapes is good, you just have to know yourself

I have got nothing suitable for lady types, but I found this what is helpful for making a coke bottle look like a beer bottle The FTM's Complete Illustrated Guide to Looking Like a (Hot) Dude
 
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