{"id":164,"date":"2008-10-30T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/30\/dressing-up-vs-real-life\/"},"modified":"2008-10-30T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T21:20:09","slug":"dressing-up-vs-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/dressing-up-vs-real-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Dressing Up vs. Real Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve been corresponding for the last couple of months with an old friend and customer about women dressing as men<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Was this merely a passing fashion<\/strong>? Madonna, Annie Lennox, Salma Hayek, Geri Halliwell… The list goes on.<\/p>\n

\"Aimee<\/a><\/p>\n

Even Aimee Mann<\/strong> has been known to wear men\u2019s neckties. Here she is in a June 2008 performance at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Celebrities<\/strong> \u2013 women in particular \u2013 change their looks and images all the time. They have to. And face it, these celebrities are all femmes<\/strong>. Even in menswear, they keep the makeup and earrings and women\u2019s panties. Chances are good there are no jockey shorts<\/strong> under their getups.<\/p>\n

Dressing up for your lover is fun. And dressing up for sex<\/strong> is a tradition in BDSM\u2014one of our favorite sex costumes is that of Mistress Cobra in Full Load<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But real life<\/strong> is another matter. Most butches<\/strong> we know wear only men\u2019s attire<\/strong>. This is not \u201cwomen dressing in men\u2019s clothes\u201d the way Madonna and Annie Lennox have been known to do when the mood strikes.<\/p>\n

\"Nan<\/a><\/p>\n

For butches, menswear is a way of life<\/strong>. It is part of who they are, and Nan counts herself among them. Here is Phyllis Christopher\u2019s head shot of Nan. Not quite the same look as Aimee Mann’s, is it?<\/p>\n

Then we think of Ellen. She too wears men\u2019s clothing. An out dyke, Ellen DeGeneres<\/a> falls into both the Celebrity and Butch Dyke<\/strong> camps.<\/p>\n

Categories morph. Mores change. What\u2019s permissible<\/strong> now was not always the case. Passing women<\/strong> took huge risks in the last centuries. We love Madonna, but she had nothing to fear by gigging herself up in men\u2019s garb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve 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\u2019s neckties. Here she is in a June 2008 performance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}