http://www.retrofuture.com/index.php/2009/02/04/a-uniform-future/ Where Yesterday's Tomorrow Is Still the Future. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:08:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.retrofuture.com/index.php/2009/02/04/a-uniform-future/comment-page-1/#comment-1469 visitor Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:24:23 +0000 http://www.retrofuture.com/?p=397#comment-1469 I think the option of dressing unisex needs to come back. I miss the unisex times of the 90's where i could easily find clothes as a teenager that was gender free. I would hate to be a teen of this decade as fashion has become so gendered. I think i would have developed gender identity disorder if i was to be a teen now. I wore unisex clothes in the 90s and it was acceptable to do so, i never had gender issues and never feel like i have gender issues when in a unisex setting. But as fashion got more gendered again this decade i began to question my gender, if expected to dress like a girl i feel as if i am transgender. But i am convinced that when the unisex fashion comes back i will get over this and return to a none gender questioning state. I have concerns that too many young people are coming out as transgender and transitioning in youth. I blame the reinforcement of gender differences in fashion to be one of the courses as when you are a teenager your clothes are a big part of your identity. If they do not fit your gender and everyone gets to know it and you get labelled a tomboy or worse a sissy then it could affect how you develop your adult notion of gender. If fashion always has unisex options no one would know who was more masculine or feminine as i could be wearing a pair of converse as a boy or a girl or man or woman as they are unisex. There may be a big chunk of the population who do not want to be masculine or feminine and are not bothered about gender, they would rather wear unisex things. These people feel disordered when having to fit into too boxes so develop problems due to binary gender fashion. The people who are strongly gendered have a preference for gendered fashions so do not like unisex ones, these people tend to compensate when wearing unisex clothes. The girls may put more make up on and wear lots of jewellery, boys may shave there head. I do not know if this is due to them having a strong preference to gender or due to those annoying people who think they have the right to stop and ask you your sex just because they cannot tell and think they have the right to know. So youths of the 90's had other ways of showing there sex when wearing unisex clothes. I think the option of dressing unisex needs to come back. I miss the unisex times of the 90′s where i could easily find clothes as a teenager that was gender free. I would hate to be a teen of this decade as fashion has become so gendered. I think i would have developed gender identity disorder if i was to be a teen now. I wore unisex clothes in the 90s and it was acceptable to do so, i never had gender issues and never feel like i have gender issues when in a unisex setting. But as fashion got more gendered again this decade i began to question my gender, if expected to dress like a girl i feel as if i am transgender. But i am convinced that when the unisex fashion comes back i will get over this and return to a none gender questioning state. I have concerns that too many young people are coming out as transgender and transitioning in youth. I blame the reinforcement of gender differences in fashion to be one of the courses as when you are a teenager your clothes are a big part of your identity. If they do not fit your gender and everyone gets to know it and you get labelled a tomboy or worse a sissy then it could affect how you develop your adult notion of gender. If fashion always has unisex options no one would know who was more masculine or feminine as i could be wearing a pair of converse as a boy or a girl or man or woman as they are unisex. There may be a big chunk of the population who do not want to be masculine or feminine and are not bothered about gender, they would rather wear unisex things. These people feel disordered when having to fit into too boxes so develop problems due to binary gender fashion. The people who are strongly gendered have a preference for gendered fashions so do not like unisex ones, these people tend to compensate when wearing unisex clothes. The girls may put more make up on and wear lots of jewellery, boys may shave there head. I do not know if this is due to them having a strong preference to gender or due to those annoying people who think they have the right to stop and ask you your sex just because they cannot tell and think they have the right to know. So youths of the 90′s had other ways of showing there sex when wearing unisex clothes.

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