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"Henceforth trousers became the ultimate clothing for men to wear, while women had their essential frivolity forced on them by the dresses and skirts they were expected to wear". [21] By the mid-20th century, orthodox Western male dress, especially business and semi-formal dress, was dominated by sober suits, plain shirts and ties.
Straight male rockers are donning frocks to protest anti-drag bills: 'If my job is to wear a dress to help, then I'll wear a dress all day.' Lyndsey Parker March 31, 2023 at 12:20 PM
The protest was launched when Zachary Paulin, a 16-year-old student at Collège Nouvelles Frontières in Gatineau, Quebec, told a group of about 30 friends he planned to wear a skirt to school.
Aside from the wearing of kilts, in the Western world skirts, dresses, and similar garments are generally viewed exclusively as women's clothing which, historically, was not always the case. [31] However, some Western men have taken up skirts as forms of civil protest. [ 32 ]
The fashion for women was all about letting loose. Women wore dresses all day, every day. Day dresses had a drop waist, which was a belt around the low waist or hip and a skirt that hung anywhere from the ankle on up to the knee, never above. Daywear had sleeves (long to mid-bicep) and a skirt that was straight, pleated, hank hem, or tiered.
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Macaroni was a term used to refer to a group of young, urban English men in the 1760s–1770s who adopted ostentatious, effeminate dress. [3] The style Macaronis adopted was more similar to the fashions of France and Italy, "retaining pastel color, pattern and ornament, at a time when their use was being displaced by more sober dressing in England."
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