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Please touch on what does it have to do with gender fluidity? Also, what is it that you are referring to as gender fluidity?
By gender fluidity, I mean queer culture.
Anyway, I feel bad posting things I've written on this board because it feels self-promotional and thus very gross, but it was easier for me to post that link than write out a long post about liberalism and the death of the suit.
Here's something I wrote about how queer culture often gets mainstreamed
Straight Copying: How Gay Fashion Goes Mainstream
When J. Crew debuted their Liquor Store ten years ago, they transformed an after-hours watering hole into a menswear-only boutique...
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Your look is basically a shrunken silhouette, which comes out of two things:
1. Three designers: Raf, Hedi, and Thom Browne. Their gender and sexuality aside, all three challenged traditional masculine norms. Raf's collections are often about adolescence. Hedi is about challenging that macho jock archetype (because, as he said, he felt alienated because of his body type in high school). Browne is about subverting a 1960s Man in the Gray Flannel suit, making the cut boyish.
2. The reinvention of the Castroid look, which I talk about in that PTO post. Your pants are, frankly, kinda gay. I don't mean that as an insult, I'm just saying that silhouette comes out of the queer community.
I've been meaning to write a post about how, actually, almost everyone who's into suits nowadays in the StyleForum way owes a debt to the queer community because fashion has, traditionally, been a feminine thing. Ever wonder why CM guys obscure their face, but women posting on the internet don't? It's because we still know this is kinda gay.
It's Pride month and frankly, I'm kind of tired of seeing all sorts of super macho guys online wear skinny clothes talk **** about queer people, not recognizing that their whole look was pioneered by people who challenged traditional gender norms.