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slavendermenace

Walking the gender tightrope

Jul 13, 2005 11:29

Today I am going shopping with my girlfriend. This is something that I despise greatly, not spending money or buying new things but simply shopping. Yeah, malls suck, people in malls suck even more but mostly where the hell does a woman like me go fucking shopping? I have 2 choices, shop in the men's section where everything will be 4 times too ( Read more... )

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slavendermenace July 14 2005, 19:45:17 UTC

how much money?

cindymonkey July 13 2005, 17:48:36 UTC

depends on aethetic it's true, but good genderqueer fashion can be hella difficult. a solution that my butch of center gfriend found, but almost didn't believe: anthropologie ( ... )

to the tune of "hot topic is the way that we run" le tigre nerak_g July 13 2005, 18:09:50 UTC

I grew up in the malls of So. Jersey & try never to go there again~cindymonkey's right, those places are scientificially designed to make people into credit card lemmings.*sigh*

So, I don't know. I try to eff up expectations all over, whenever I can. I belong to the Femme Mafia, but I don the backwards cap & the squared bowler shirt.I've never fit as an anything, and as I get above the size 16 and fill into my mid-thirties, I'm feeling a resurge of late teenager eff them angst.I guess I'm lucky~ I have friends who make clothes and I've been sporting punk band shirt fashion as my own for more than half my life now. It's been hard when all the clothes are made for heroin chic.Thank god for big motorcycle riders, 'cause sometimes I can get the mudflap girl belt buckle and then fix it to a larger-sized leather belt.
Otherwise, it's Target for my target market...

razz July 13 2005, 19:16:37 UTC

Amen.

If only I could draw fashion. My stick figures wear pants. And are always of questionable gender.

fluff and stuff. whats_unspoken July 13 2005, 19:21:50 UTC

Fluff: you should wear what makes you happy. skirts make me happy. I wear a whole lot of skirts.

I know, free to be you and me was a whole lot of help navigating the orange julius toting mall goers.

Stuff: for jeans, gap, and alternately, old navy, make mens boot cut or low-rise boot cut jeans. They're a nice cut and, unlike most mens jeans (that are all sorts of too big in the waist too small in the hips too big in the thigh and way too roomy in the crotch (bleh to that word)), they have a low enough rise (about nine inches) to fit comfortably on the hips without the inseam starting mid thigh. good luck with shorts.

I hate to shop too. It makes me feel judged. I hate people touching my clothes...