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Have any female articles of clothing been masculinized recently?
For example, the vast majority of people around me wearing what used to be hypermasculine clothing like double riders, sheepskin bomber jackets and trench coats are women. However, I can't think of an article of clothing that has crossed the gender line in the opposite direction. Or am I selectively blind? I can only think of jewelry.
Tight pants, painted nails, and short shorts.
I don't like the look of shorter sorts of shorts on men. But, it's ridiculous that we pretend they aren't functional proper shorts. Men's shorts used to be really short. It wasn't a woman thing pre-1990s or so.
I'd say bring them back. Don't let women take functional clothing from us.
I used to have a pair of satin short shorts with a side slit in the mid 90s.
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It's not clear to me that tight pants are a female article of clothing. Men just used to walk around in leggings all the time.
This is just what peak male performance looks like. Those high heels are actually cavalry combat shoes.
Don't get me started on those garters.
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True, but then one arguably runs into the same thing with most items of ‘female’ clothing that could be ‘masculinized’.
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Short shorts are a bit tricky. They could just as easily be a return to masculine styles of the 1970s and earlier, rather than a feminization of modern clothing.
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