Mmastodon LifeFashion first seen 21 h ago, last 18 h ago, peak #3
Adults Reflect on Pointlessly Gendered Fashion Rules From Youth
Original: It’s only now as I’m older I realise some things were unnecessarily gendered or gatekept growing up. Just weird fashion
People are sharing realisations that many clothing norms they grew up with were unnecessarily gendered or gatekept. One example cited: elastic-waist cargo pants and joggers treated as unmanly, with adult men expected to wear jeans instead. The discussion is prompting others to recall similar arbitrary fashion rules imposed on them while growing up, and to question why such distinctions existed at all.
Why now: The observation resonates with adults rethinking arbitrary gendered dress codes from their childhood.
Evidence
- It’s only now as I’m older I realise some things were unnecessarily gendered or gatekept growing up. Just weird fashion things like pants that have elastic on them, not even trackies but cargo pants, or joggers or whatever. That to be an adult or ‘man’ you had to wear jeans and… · liquidparanoia@aus.social · 1
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