We’ve been corresponding for the last couple of months with an old friend and customer about women dressing as men.
Was this merely a passing fashion? Madonna, Annie Lennox, Salma Hayek, Geri Halliwell… The list goes on.
Even Aimee Mann has been known to wear men’s neckties. Here she is in a June 2008 performance at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Celebrities – women in particular – change their looks and images all the time. They have to. And face it, these celebrities are all femmes. Even in menswear, they keep the makeup and earrings and women’s panties. Chances are good there are no jockey shorts under their getups.
Dressing up for your lover is fun. And dressing up for sex is a tradition in BDSM—one of our favorite sex costumes is that of Mistress Cobra in Full Load.
But real life is another matter. Most butches we know wear only men’s attire. This is not “women dressing in men’s clothes” the way Madonna and Annie Lennox have been known to do when the mood strikes.
For butches, menswear is a way of life. It is part of who they are, and Nan counts herself among them. Here is Phyllis Christopher’s head shot of Nan. Not quite the same look as Aimee Mann’s, is it?
Then we think of Ellen. She too wears men’s clothing. An out dyke, Ellen DeGeneres falls into both the Celebrity and Butch Dyke camps.
Categories morph. Mores change. What’s permissible now was not always the case. Passing women took huge risks in the last centuries. We love Madonna, but she had nothing to fear by gigging herself up in men’s garb.
I have a few dyke girlfriends who wear nothing but men’s clothes, making them look like true men, and I wouldn’t have it any other way with them. Maybe it’s part of the role they’re playing, and I’m playing with them.
But I do have one question for the masculine dykes out there – why do u all have the best size tits?
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Ellen is also very lucky to have a sweet and beautiful girlfriend like Portia De Rossi ..
Geri Halliwell is sort of the symbol of Spice Girls. We always love her and we would always be a fan of her.***
how could we ever forget Geri Halliwell of Spice Girls, they were very popular in the 90s.:`”
i would have to say that Ellen Degeneres is really great in having her show, it is an informative tv show “*`
geri halliwell is just awesome, just look at here pretty face and great body*”~
Ellen Degeneres – the best TV show host ever, love ya Ellen,,;