Boy Meets Girl Women's Fashion

[Shana A]

Boy Meets Girl
Women's Fashion

By SUZY MENKES
February 24, 2010, 3:26 pm

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/boy-meets-girl/

We have had decades of fusion food. Now, at last, we have fashion fusion. For "gender bending" — a vestige of feminism and gay pride — substitute "gender blending," as designers unite drape and straight and meld a womanly softness with masculine confidence. The concept of women dressing like men to shatter the glass ceiling hung around throughout the 1980s. But that attitude has been replaced by a new aesthetic: take any elements from either sex and piece them together.

For the new season, there are all sorts of combinations, using items that were once gender specific.

[Dweia]

I would like to see it other way around i.e so that males can also

take any elements from either sex and piece them together.

So I would like to see clothing stores where there are no different sections/departments for males and females.

[tekla]

Doesn't it kinda defeat the idea of a department store to do away with departments?  And places like Macy's don't have mens and womens departments - they have a bunch of both dictated by both style (formal, active, casual, career) and size.  I just have never got how males are afraid to shop in the women's sections, but the men's departments have women shopping in them all the time.