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Title: Boy Meets Girl Women's Fashion
Post by: Shana A on February 24, 2010, 09:50:33 PM
Post by: Shana A on February 24, 2010, 09:50:33 PM
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/ (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 But that attitude has been replaced by a new aesthetic: take any elements from either sex and piece them together.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.
Women's Fashion
By SUZY MENKES
February 24, 2010, 3:26 pm
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/boy-meets-girl/ (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 But that attitude has been replaced by a new aesthetic: take any elements from either sex and piece them together.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.
Title: Re: Boy Meets Girl Women's Fashion
Post by: Dweia on February 25, 2010, 03:26:02 AM
Post by: Dweia on February 25, 2010, 03:26:02 AM
I would like to see it other way around i.e so that males can also
Quote from: Zythyra on February 24, 2010, 09:50:33 PM
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.
Title: Re: Boy Meets Girl Women's Fashion
Post by: tekla on February 25, 2010, 07:04:45 AM
Post by: tekla on February 25, 2010, 07:04:45 AM
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.