Menswear Made for Women
For many years one trend has stood the test of time: menswear as womenswear.
Starting in the 1920s, Coco Chanel revolutionized the way women dressed, giving them a new freedom to wear things besides petticoats and skirts. Women started to wear pants and other things that were considered manly in that decade of prim and proper fashion.
Since then designers have even further made staples such as jackets even more “manly”. The trend seems to be ever popular now, with many models adopting the trend as a permanent style, many magazines featuring menswear themed editorials almost every month, and it seems that designers can’t get enough of the trend either. Many shows are fully influenced by it, or at least have a few things deducted from menswear.
It seems that the trend has been unstoppable in 2009, and it leaves me wondering one thing: when will it end?! I don’t think that it will come to a halt any time soon, because there is a huge bunch of people loving the it. I for one, however, don’t really care for it. Let’s girls be girls, and boys be boys. But only when it’s done in a ultra cool way à la Isabel Marant or Givenchy, I’ll let it slide.
What do you think?
i dont think it is a trend, it is like jeans, it will always be around. i dont get tired of it, i would be lost without my menswear, esp. my "le smokings." but i dont cross the line, i wont wear a "proper" neck tie, suspenders, or brogues. i still keep a femininity there.
Jeans isn’t a trend, no. I was thinking more along the lines of jeans – or pants – that are masculine. That is the trend. Females have been wearing jeans for what seems like forever, and that’s nothing to get tired of… but I get tired of it when the are wearing a masculine jacket or masculine pants in every editorial in every magazine with almost no femininity. I probably didn’t provide the best images the first time around (I fixed them, however), and that is my fault.
The taller you are the better suited and flattering it is to you. Frida looks amazing. At 6'1 it's kind of hard not to..