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you wear an ancestor's face. you look like a woman you'll never meet. in that mirror, there's thousands of you. and in the bath, when you look down, she looks back, shaking and deforming in the ripples as she lies beneath the surface.
Ladies In Menswear
The Teddy Girls, also known as Judies, were inspired by their more famous
male counterparts as goes the case in female vs male perspective history. The Teddy Boys were a unique 1950′s (British) phenomena, but the love of androgyny including female androgyny has existed in humanity’s
culture forever & was never exclusive!
Like the flappers
& factory girls, like the gamines & pachucas, women with
masculine charm or aesthetics has been around since the Greeks & always seen
as alternative & a unique blend of beauty! And the spectrum of androgyny really
does vary! It’s never purely 50% 50%. And so were the teddy girls, who
didn’t only dress like the boys but wore circle skirts too. These styles
would echo back in 70s british punk movement too.
Teddy Girls
were another group of people who rejected the gender binary in terms of
expression. Often associated with the economical climate as well of the
time period, fashion was determined by what was available. An especially teenage rebellion
they were part of the rise of the youth culture in post WWII: because being a
“teenager” wasn’t always a thing! You were a child, then you were an
adult. I’d love to go on about 50′s youth culture, your sock hops
& rock & roll & drive in movies & all the media created
for this early counter-cultural movement. I ADORE history. Why do you
think I run a vintage-centered fashion blog? :)
Teddy Girls
had a specific look about them, & if you’re particularly interested
please dive in to what you can read! I’m happy to just exposure you to
these pictures (Ken Russell famously documented the teddy girls)! They
too were inspired by what was considered vintage fashion to their time
period: the dandy Edwardian look (which I love ever since i read Dorian
Gray!) , with combined american fashion trends
It’s funny,
fashion. How we all originally wore unisex, loose, open clothing like
tunics or exposing clothing. To masculine fashion deciding to be
comfortable & practical, and women’s fashion restrictive/ objectifying/ impractical. Aside of course for the more fun
decadent & posh moments. In my opinion both pants & skirts are
necessary depending on the day regardless of whats under there!
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