This New York Times article looks at the growing field of tailors – making suits for women. Interesting how the focus of the article is on transwomen and lesbians – still using gendered dressing to define both gender and sexuality. Like, what kind of normal straight girl would want to dress like a man? Well, I do. But I also want to ask the question: why does wearing a suit mean “dressing like a man?” Why are these totally arbitrary garments so ingrained in us as visual definitions for the very kind of person you are?
