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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That's hard to tell! I bet they all had mastectomies.
I agree 100%. That's why I like to buy second hand men's jackets. I can't believe how much better made they are.
yuck
Transvestites.
I know what you mean. I'm more of a t-shirt and jeans gal myself, but no one would ever mistake me for a man. Women can still dress casual and still look like women. These are women who want to be men.
Buying some men's casual clothing just 'cause it's more durable is one thing...wanting to really and truly dress like a man - even when NOT dressed casually - that's just icky.
I heartily agree. Icky sums it up nicely.
Those people are women?
When my two daughters were in HS...they discovered that all my clothes were "cool"..they literally dressed themselves from my closet for years..Brooks brothers button down shirts...all my Land's end sweaters..and then they got all my old uniforms out of the trunk in the attic..Not that I could ever fit into them again..
I remember back in the 1950's that wearing your dad's white shirts with jeans was all the rage.
Sigh. I'd settle for something that fits.
I can see this line being labeled under the "ELLEN" line.
Like around her testicles.... Hillary has her pant suits cut with extra room in the crotch for her boys.
This was the 80's..
Even at the sale pricing, it's still not as good a value as anything I buy.
And then there's shoes. Again, just poor construction next to men's shoes.
I have a brown pair, a black pair, sneakers, and flip flops.
My wife fills up two closets with her shoes, guess she's looking for quality and having a hard time finding it, LOL.
And the noise on uncarpeted floors was horrible!
Hmm, how about DEGENERATE Duds for Dykes?
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