There are many genders and they are all valid. Everyone deserves the freedom to wear what they want to wear. Fashion has no gender. Fashion is for all.
We all strive for peace, don’t we? We want to feel the peace in our hearts and feel what it is like to simply live. Live without the shackles and limitations that come with being confined to a box. And that box is the gender roles we are told to follow. The gender roles we all need to leave behind. Androgyny has the power to set us free if we let it.
Fashion has no gender
It is ridiculous to see people do whatever they can to genderise fashion. Anything from saying things like, “Oh the buttons look like that? Then you obviously can’t wear that because that is too feminine/masculine” to gatekeeping dresses, skirts, heels or makeup. Fashion has nothing to do with gender. It has everything to do with expressing ourselves. Through what we wear, we show the world who we are, what we feel and what matters to us.
If what you feel like wearing is a super cute dress with pink plateau heels – go right ahead. If you feel like wearing combat boots with khaki trousers and a loose shirt – that’s your prerogative. The point is, no one can tell you that whatever you want to wear cannot be worn by you. The fashion you love was made for you.
If you feel that a certain garment or outfit in question makes you feel good, makes you feel like yourself, then no one can tell you otherwise. To tell you that what you feel is not right is like saying you’re not right. And by doing so, they have quite frankly lost their right to play any kind of part in your life.
Gender roles can hurt people deeply
Genderising fashion has a lot to do with the awful gender roles society still holds. They are outdated, sure, but they are still being pushed. Parts of modern society are still small-minded enough to believe there are only two genders. That is a very outdated and ignorant way of thinking. If anything, gender is more of a spectrum.
Gender is a spectrum
To at least loosely try to describe gender, let’s imagine a scale. On one side of the scale, there is a man who identifies as a man, thinks like a man and acts like a stereotypical male 100% of the time. Oh, and he was also assigned male at birth. Truthfully, I am not even sure one of those exists. Gender roles weren’t meant to be achievable after all.
On the other side of the scale, there is a woman who identifies, thinks like and acts like a stereotypical woman 100% of the time. And she was assigned female at birth. Again, I doubt one of those women exists either. In other words, these two genders, the way that society sees them, are very limited and stereotypical. No one fits into those boxes completely.
Between these two stereotypical genders – they’re myths, really – there are countless other genders. Some might feel one way about their gender but still feel they are part of the female part of the scale and vice versa. It is like when you are asked a question and they tell you to answer on a scale from 1-10. In terms of gender, it would go somewhat like this. 1 being male, 10 being female, 1-5 being genders on the more male side or neither, and 5-10 being genders on the more female side or neither.
Conclusion:
It is quite obtuse to claim that only women can wear certain things and only men can wear certain things because those two are far from the only genders out there. By claiming such a thing, should everyone else walk around naked? Fashion consists of fabrics created to form garments and accessories that are meant to be worn. A fabric holds no certain significance until we say it does, the same with garments. Fashion, while amazing, is just fashion and all of us, we’re just people. Clothes are meant to keep us warm, sure, but fashion is meant to be fun, meant to help us express ourselves. It is meant to free us. Not to keep us shackled.
Free the fashion and stop genderising!
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