The language of clothing: Students publicly cross dress to examine social constr

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The language of clothing: Students publicly cross dress to examine social constructs

    by Kyra Gemberling   
    on October 5, 2012

http://elonpendulum.com/2012/10/the-language-of-clothing-students-publicly-cross-dress-to-examine-social-constructs/

If you were on Elon University's campus Oct. 3, you just might have seen a young man sporting a pair of red high heels.

Senior Logan Sutton bravely donned the heels for a project for his Performance Studies class, in which students were asked to cross dress in public and interact with others without telling them it was an assignment.

"Our clothes come to define who we are, so by altering that in some way that is distinctly the opposite gender, we get to perceive what other people think about it through our interactions," Sutton said.