Posted on 12/17/2004 7:41:33 AM PST by SmithL
Sometimes the pants bunch up in all the wrong places, or the necklines sag, or sleeves hang past wrists, or shirts balloon preposterously. Forget about buying a nicely tailored suit or renting a tuxedo.
For women who prefer minimalist men's clothing styles over stereotypically feminine, frilly garb, the pickings are slim. Women's clothing departments leave them cold. The men's clothes they tend to buy rarely fit properly. Clothes shopping is often torture.
This barren sartorial landscape was brightened last week when Aisha Pew and Breonna Cole of Oakland launched Studded, a label billing itself as the first line of clothes made expressly for butch lesbians, studs, transgender men and bois -- all au courant terms for people who lean masculine in their presentation or identity. The clothes look like what you might find in a men's department, but the design slyly accounts for the fact that women are curvier than men.
Those who would question whether lesbians care about fashion beyond flannel would have found their answer last week at a fashion show at Oakland's Parkway Theater. More than 100 people were turned away from the sold-out event. The lucky 180 who made it inside noisily cheered as models walked down the aisles -- escorted by women in tight, slinky dresses -- then turned, strutted and posed on the stage. They gave Pew, the designer, a standing ovation.
"Seeing the frustration in my wife's face" -- when she shops for clothes -- "is ridiculous to me," Pew said. Decidedly not butch, she has energetic hair that reaches impressive heights in front and a pierced eyebrow and chin. She had dressed for the occasion in a flirty black-and-white polka dot BCBG Max Azria dress with a halter top.
"The point of it is bigger than clothes. It's about feeling good...
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Are you sure that they are women?
Don we now our gay apparel!
Umm.
No.
Are you sure they are women?
they are nuts. there are plenty of nonfrilly clothes for women. what the dykes want is men's clothes that fit them properly and that is what they should say. it is ludicrous to act like women run around wearing frilly flouncy stuff. Go into any Talbots and you will find nice nonfrilly tailored professional FEMININE clothing.
I will say this: dollar for dollar, men's clothing is much better constructed. I can't believe that my wife has to pay twice as much as I do for a shirt that's not made half as well.
LOL!
This looks like Tiger Woods,Greg Proops, Cuba Gooding, Jr.
This looks like Tiger Woods,Greg Proops, Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Yep, this is why I have the Carhartt things I have...pants and jackets. I can throw 'em in the wash and not have them disintigrate after a few cycles.
But this article is something else entirely....
Aisha Pew reffered to her "wife". I assume Aisha is a female. Idiot dyke, thinks she's married.
sheesh, you are taking that cheaper by the dozen thing, literally, arentcha? ; ) good for you.
SO9
okay obviously bull dyke clothing.
but in all seriousness, women who wear mens styles like a shirt/suit with neck tie do not enhance their attractivness. If anything it detracts from their appearance and presentation as inteligent.
Do we call these lebians "pitchers"?
My bet is she waits for the sale price, ask her, LOL.
Anyone with a "Farm & Fleet" store within 10 miles of them has been able to dress this way for decades. And cheaply. :)
I've lived most of my life in BDUs, so it's obvious I'm no "Fashionista!" LOL!
I buy men's jackets sometimes at the second hand store because they are made SO much better than women's are. They don't look that much different but the shoulders are larger and sometimes the sleeves are longer. I also like men's Ryder jeans. They fit me better than anything else. I have a large waistline, small behind and thin legs. It's almost impossible to get decent women's pants to fit. I wear, even though I'm 5'7" tall, a short proportioned pant, so the Ryders fit me pretty well. Trouble is I can't find them around here anymore since Ames closed. I love men's sweaters, too. I love men, period.
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