A few decades ago, when the woman’s movement was taking off, clothing manufacturers introduced ‘unisex clothing.’ After a brief flurry of interest, the concept died. Women didn’t even like them. They started wearing men’s clothing, while men went back to wearing clothes made for men.
Men’s styles and fashions did change. Men have a much wider range of options available to them than they used to. A man can have shoulder length hair and still be a macho man and he doesn’t have to stick with a conservative suit anymore. Men even choose to pierce one or both or their ears. As long as they’re wearing stud earrings, they can get away with it, but a feminine looking pair of rhodium earrings won’t do anything for their masculine image.
Women wear any kind of earrings they like. They also sometimes like to wear a men’s watch. There’s something kind of sexy and bold about an oversized watch on a woman, but there’s nothing sexy about a dainty woman’s watch on a man.
Men today can wear earrings, necklaces and bracelets. What they can’t wear, though, is a jewelry set. If a man is wearing earrings, they should either look like pirate’s earrings or something his girlfriend picked out for him. If he’s wearing a necklace, it should be something he found when he was traveling or have religious or other significance for him. It should never be part of a set just because it matches. Only women can wear jewelry sets simply because they match.
In just about every department of fashion, it is the same. Women can look sexy and alluring in men’s clothing, but men just look gay in women’s apparel. That’s fine if a man is gay, but if he’s not, he had better take heed: there is nothing macho or sexy about women’s clothes on a man.
Have you ever seen a woman in a man’s sweatshirt. The effect can make you weak in the knees, almost as if she was wearing a bikini. Now try to make yourself think about girls sweatshirts on men. You can’t do it, can you? It’s just ridiculous.
Women look great in men’s jeans. Sometimes they look more than great -they look fantastic, especially if the jeans have been tailored for them. When was the last time you saw a man in a woman’s skirt, though? There’s no such thing and no designer has ever been able to come up with ’skirts for men.’
There is no adequate answer for why it is so. It just is. Women can get away with wearing men’s things and even make them looking devastatingly alluring. The opposite just doesn’t work. The closest thing we have to unisex clothes that work is drawstring yoga pants and tee shirts. Other than that, guys, stick with the men’s department in your local store!
