I've got to go to a posh 'do' this week which requires me to dress according to the dress code known as 'a black-tie event'. Now when you say that, it immediately tells you that the blokes need to wear a very smart suit, which in reality needs to be a dinner jacket (or tuxedo if you must), whilst the ladies need to wear a very smart black outfit. And there's the thing. The fellas, essentially, get a choice of a suit. The ladies get a choice of dresses with various styles, materials and accessories. However, when you don't have the heavy constraints of a 'black-tie event', the differences become even more obvious. Sure, the chaps have a good choice of trousers, shirts, t-shirts, jackets and even shoes, boots and trainers. Yet, when you cast your beady little peepers across the massive range and variety of clothing available to women, the meagre selection on offer to the men just pales into insignificance. As a woman you can choose from dresses, skirts, trousers, shirts, blouses, camisole thingies,floaty bits and ... well just loads more than the lads can. Not to mention the myriad choice of jewellery that's on offer.
I argued this point with some women at work today. This was an eror. Surprisingly, some of them totally disagreed with me, saying that there was just as much choice and variety for men as women. What? Anyway, things soon became ugly and so I retreated from the verbal melee that I had created, safe in the knowledge that I was right. Mind you, there is one big advantage in having less choice. Fewer decisions about what to wear. So in fact, blokes are probably not really missing out on fashion at all. Rather we just have less to worry about.
However, if you're a transvestite ...
2 comments:
We had a similar fashion discussion only last night, but this time in the context of "Things to wear to work".
A female mate of ours was saying that she couldn't work in an office where she had to go in dressed up every day and much prefered being able to go in in whatever clothes she felt like or even in the clothes she was going partying in straight after work.
I on the other hand argued that I prefer having to go in smart as it means the only decision I have to make of a morning is which shirt requires least ironing.
So are we less advantaged in the clothing department? Probably. Should we, however, feel agrieved by that? Not really no.
From a female perspective ones height/weight/shape will also define what you do and do not wear. It's not all gin and biscuits being a female fashionista.
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