For edification and cultural literacy, one can hardly beat the Guardian human interest pages.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/video/2008/nov/21/bra...
BigCloset TopShelf
TopShelf TG Fiction in the BigCloset!
The Hatbox
Checks can be made out & sent to:
Joyce Melton
1001 Third St.
Space 80
Calimesa, CA 92320
USA
Note: $6000 is the operating, maintenance and upgrade budget. Amounts received in excess of the $6000 will be applied to long term debt accrued over the last 19 years.
If you prefer, you can donate through Patreon:
Become a Patron!
Thank you!
Comments
Minus A?
Well at least it was a plain black one, I'm sure that will help them get in touch with their samurai spirit ;-)
Seriously?
If you don't need a bra why would you wear one unless you WISHED that you needed one? Can breast implants for men, not pec implants, breast implants, be far away? You couldn't write this stuff, no one would believe it. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
If you looked at all of the news links on Silverton OR's Mayor
HE, I use that deliberately, has had breast implants, and dresses like a woman, but wants to be referred to as a man, and addressed that way. In at least one of the interviews, he stated that he does not consider himself to be a woman or transgendered, just a cross dresser.
So, breast implants for men are already an accomplished fact.
One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness.
It usually comes back to you.
Holly
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Holly
Biting my tongue
Biting my tongue...again ;-)
I don't see that anyone noticed...
...that in the rather fuzzy picture on the screen next to the spokeswoman for the designer, the man is also wearing black thong panties...
Just when you think skirts for men will *never* make a real comeback, along comes a story like this and proves that there are few limits to what people will do to make a fashion statement.
http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/meninskirts.html
Cheers,
Puddin'
-
Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
I did notice
Your link also reminded me fondly of a South African friend of mine, David, who in the late 60's through the 80's promoted skirts for men, he ended up in several magazines and talk shows back then like Donahugh. He even managed to use his big strapping sons as models. David was also responsible for getting me to go out the first couple of times. His views and reasons were about politics and self expression which often made me very uncomfortable, especially when we'd invite him out to brunch and you never knew how he'd show up, usually very deliberately as a male in very funky looking women's clothes. David had no concept of color, style or fashion and this only made it harder to be out in public with him. He was a brilliant scientist and I loved his company even though I felt severely challenged in public. In an effort to support clothing design for men he wrote a program called SewSoft which allowed you to input a gazillion measurements and it would output full sized clothing patterns for you. I did some costume design back then and helped debug his program comparing the output to my own custom patterns.
Maybe this is why I'm critical of the mayor? Distant memories of public outings with David; lots of first hand experience with alternative expression?
Is "men in skirts" not just an escape for closet trannies?
Maybe not. Maybe some men are really being sartorially political.
Maybe.
Many years ago back in the dark years of Thatcher's Britain when I was still firmly locked in the closet, I went to an event doing the "man in skirt" thing. I had bright orange leggings and matching tee-shirt and a lime green skirt, all in jersey, with a black and orange print cotton shirt over the teeshirt. I probably wore womens chinese kung fu slippers since that was my usual footwear anyway.
I was dead scared because I'd never gone out in a skirt before without trying to either pass or pass it off as fancy dress. But the fears were all in my head, as folks in central London didn't care at all, and the arty college open day that I was at was so cool and with it that I actually felt perfectly at home.
I was quite surprised.
Never did it again though: I was always the best girl I could be, ever after.
XX
AD