Poll: Transvestite!!

[Snake Plissken]

Generally, guys are a more "function before fashion" sort of group. Girls just have a wider variety of things to choose from if they want to change it up. Guys have pants. And shirts. That's about it. Girls get all sorts of cool shit, from skirts to dresses to leggings to tube tops to about a bajillion times more jewelry available to them, etc.

Guys often are wearing what is most comfortable for them, because the attire just makes sense. Guys that dress up in womens' clothing generally aren't doing for any physical comfort, but perhaps for a different sort of comfort. Or perhaps they just want to wear something that isn't available to them normally.

 

[Loop Stricken]

I think it may be worth mentioning that I find a girl wearing jeans and a hoodie infinitely more attractive than one in a formal dress. It might have something to do with that being what I almost always wear.

Agreed, especially when it's MY jeans and/or hoodie.

That'll always be the dream...

*ahem*
Anyway.
Ever since I heard about that Utilikilt during the Americans' airport balls-up doodad I thought about getting one but alas, I live in England and it's often bloody freezing.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

Well probably because "men's" clothes usually aren't obviously "manly". I mean there are man pants and lady pants. T-shirts are uni-sex as are a lot of upper-body wear. So its not quite so shocking when a women wears a pair of pants rather than a skirt or dress. The same thing can't be said for a man wearing women's clothes. I would be a bit surprised and maybe weirded out at first, but I don't see anything really wrong with it. I mean I've always thought wearing a kilt would be cool and a kilt is pretty much a skirt. So wear whatever you want. Eventually it won't be thought of as odd for a man to wear "women's" clothing (although by then the idea of gender specific clothing probably won't be around).

 

[Korten12]

girl wearing guys clothes? Okay.

Guy wearing girls clothes? Hell NO!

 

[GrinningManiac]

A hundred and fifty-ish years ago dresses were worn by both young girls and boys. When a boy reached a certain age (10-12 I think) they got given breeches (trousers). Before they were breeched, they were called girls.

Both young boys and girls were called girls, the former becoming boys only on reaching trouserhood (awesome word, btw). Both were dolled up and everything

Dresses use to be unisex, Who's to say they won't be again!?

Bit more than 150ish years:

Girl has meant any young unmarried woman since about 1530. Its first noted meaning for sweetheart is 1648. The earliest known appearance of girl-friend is in 1892 and girl next door, meant as a teenaged female or young woman with a kind of wholesome appeal, dates only to 1961.[3]

Hmmm, I can't seem to find the thing that showed how boys used to be called girls until they were breeched

However, breeching itself is easy enough to find, though I really messed up remembering the age at which they were breeched.

"Breeching was the occasion when a small boy was first dressed in breeches or trousers. From the mid-16th century until the late 19th or early 20th century, young boys in the Western world were unbreeched and wore gowns or dresses until an age that varied between two and eight. Breeching was an important rite of passage in the life of a boy, looked forward to with much excitement. It often marked the point at which the father became more involved with the raising of a boy."

 

[Sneeze]

People should be able to wear what they like, doesn't do harm to anyone, unless they wear a suit made out of knives and fire or something.

 

[2fish]

Clothing is a way to project who you feel you are or how you feel others should see you. If you are comfortable projecting who you are then go ahead. I swap between the two depending on my goals for that day.

If someone makes a comment just ask them if they would like to know where they can get their own clothes to match you....like twins *giggle*

 

[ThreeWords]

Hell, I never tried dressing up like the opposite gender, but I see no reason why not, should the mood take me. I just need to find somewhere to get the stuff