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post #1 of 41
11/19/09 at 10:24am
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"I've heard that in Australia, men are wearing tights"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/fa...ewanted=1&8dpc
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post #2 of 41
11/19/09 at 11:18am
They're known as compression shorts. We wear them to reduce lactic acid buildup in training. :P
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post #3 of 41
11/19/09 at 1:13pm
Read that article this morning.

Fascinating, because I haven't heard much about androgynous dressing on SF, and this place caters to urban fashionheads in their 20's, the target demographic in the article.

Is anyone here dressing in women's tights and not talking about it?
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post #4 of 41
11/19/09 at 1:34pm
Surely everyone's seen this already? http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...-mens-leggings I think it's a cool article but it annoys the hell out of me that after he writes the whole thing saying lots of people liked them and thought they were neat, at the very end he meets his "super stylish" girlfriend who hates them. So what's your own fucking verdict, you seemed to like them until your cocksheath opened her suckhole. And he's the one who's editor of GQ, ffs.
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post #5 of 41
11/19/09 at 1:34pm
Forums like SZ are going to have more androgyny. I generally wear nail polish and am thinking of buying some heels (men's heeled boots.) I've been thinking of buying women's sweaters since my frame is too small for most men's sweaters, I've worn a woman's sweater before and it fit me fairly well. I don't plan on going for a full out androgynous look, but I agree with the idea of men should be able to wear what they want. Regardless of what tag some store stuck on it. It used to be a horrible sin for a woman to wear jeans, or anything other than a skirt/dress. Now women can wear almost any item of men's clothing without coming under scrutiny. Men however are not afforded that luxury, it's annoying. I've been frequently branded as gay for the way I dress (although it's just because I'm in a small town, it rarely happened in the city,) and I think that's what throws most men who are into clothing off the idea of doing anything edgy or androgynous.
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post #6 of 41
11/19/09 at 1:45pm
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This season, menswear has been taken to new levels of skinniness. Guys, wince and whimper a painful "hello" to man-leggings, or "meggings".
yes, "leggings" is such a gender-charged word also those margiela leggins rule
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post #7 of 41
11/19/09 at 1:53pm
I actually dug quite a few of those looks that paired leggings with shorts from recent fashion shows (e.g. Geller SS10).
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post #8 of 41
11/19/09 at 2:04pm
Womens clothes (that I like) are designed to accentuate and compliment their figures - which are anatomically differnt than a males - unless you are shaped like an hourglass - which it appears that some of you are. Going forward - I would prefer to go out to dinner and not have my wife look like the dude at the adjacent table with a 5'oclock shadow - it would kill the mood for me.

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Originally Posted by Listi View Post
Men however are not afforded that luxury, it's annoying. I've been frequently branded as gay for the way I dress (although it's just because I'm in a small town, it rarely happened in the city,) and I think that's what throws most men who are into clothing off the idea of doing anything edgy or androgynous.

You shouldn't let anyone push you around - but don't expect to be called masculine.
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post #9 of 41
11/19/09 at 4:09pm
Good for them. I love how the young generation has a lot less hangups about fashion, gender, and sexuality. Being paranoid about "looking gay" and wearing huge, shapeless clothes has gone on long enough. If you're straight and dressing this way, you'll never get a really boring girl. But that's no so bad, is it? Interesting women like confident men who wear what they want, regardless of how society views them. If Adam Lambert was straight, could you imagine how much he would be getting laid by girls in LA? A lot.
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post #10 of 41
11/19/09 at 5:08pm
Gender bending is not clever or interesting, nor are the type of girls who would find that sort of thing appealing.
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post #11 of 41
11/19/09 at 5:37pm
Upper class men wore tight leggings or hose for hundreds of years in Europe. I would probably not feel comfortable wearing these myself due to modern stereotypes, but to say that they are inherently feminine and designed to match the female body is pure ignorance. To think they will never return to mainstream male fashion ever again seems awfully naive to me. See here.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hose_(clothing) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leggings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1550-1600_in_fashion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1600-1650_in_fashion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1650-1700_in_fashion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700-1750_in_fashion
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post #12 of 41
11/19/09 at 5:51pm
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Gender bending is not clever or interesting, nor are the type of girls who would find that sort of thing appealing.

Guess you never met any.

"Gender bending" is also too strong a word to describe what they're talking about. In my mind, Gender bending is a guy wearing a miniskirt or Ziggy Stardust. Not a 17yo emo fan who wears tight Cheap Mondays and the occasional bit of eyeliner. It's just a fashionable and rock & roll look.

It's not my personal style, but I'm happy to see people expressing themselves more. And the styles of today's music is bringing that out of the cities. When I went to college, I would sometimes get slagged off for wearing a punk rock t-shirt. I'd shudder to think what the Pennsylvania frat boys would yell at a thin Men's Clothing guy in a checked Cucinelli blazer and pocket square. It's good that the new generation is leaving some of this attitude behind.
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post #13 of 41
11/19/09 at 6:38pm
I love rad hourani's asexual thing. Those slit knee pants fuuma's got are divine...
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post #14 of 41
11/19/09 at 9:07pm
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post #15 of 41
11/19/09 at 9:09pm
should we resurrect my shorts with leggings thread??? also i bought a pair of skinny jeans, and they might as well be leggings
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