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you've all gotta stop acting like "overweight" is a gentle PC alternative for the word fat and not itself an assertion of the ontological wrongness of being large. Over What Weight Precisely
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Anonymous asked:
How did you find your personal style?
I'm going to start off with a challenge to finding my personal style:
I have a bad habit of buying clothing when I am dysphoric. This is something I've only recently been able to get a handle on.
When I am dysphoric, I tend to buy clothing that looks good on the model and roughly fits my mood at the time. I don't think about how well it will fit on me. I don't think about if I can build an outfit or when I would wear it. I don't think about if I have a similar piece already. I forget to read fabric content labels. I just buy the clothing because I am a hoarder and it's a lifelong battle to curb your addiction here.
I am getting better, much more aware of when I do this, and regularly purge my wardrobe of the pieces that inevitably don't fit, either my body, style, or opportunities to wear.
So, about *finding* your style -- clothes aren't just aesthetic. They communicate something about you. Some of that comes from the history of the clothing style, and some comes from how and when you choose to wear the clothing.
With my vintage look, I am trying to communicate "cozy nerd who is at home in a museum or on a farm, a bit eccentric, a bit of a peacock, but ultimately kind". A lot of my blorbos throughout life dress like this and I am absolutely using my fashion as a shortcut to broadcast a brand of masculinity I feel comfortable in.
My modern style is a bit more colorful, but I am trying to present similarly -- "guy who likes to stand out a little, but is also approachable".
The way I've gotten here is to collect images of people who have good style vibes to me. They could be blorbos, random folks from sites like The Sartorialist, from clothing ads, etc.
The first thing I try to do is articulate why I like something. The color? Texture? Something about how it is cut? If it's just the vibes, what kind of vibe do I think is here? Cozy? Sexy? Intellectual? Adventurous? Something else?
Then, I learn about the clothing from experts and communities that are hard-core for it, and think about what I would mix up to better appease my own eye/personality.
I absolutely have some clashing styles, and that is ok. Over time, you can notice common themes across your different styles.
Every outfit doesn't have to be in the same style, but I would suggest every piece of clothing you have do belong to an outfit. So, when working on your style, remember to ask yourself:
- What did I think about when I bought this garment? What was my mood at the time and what do I want my mood to be when I wear this?
- Will this fit me and not make me feel bad about my body?
- Do I have a complete outfit for this garment? How many outfits could it go with?
- Where and when will I wear this? How often?
- Do I need to alter it in any way before I start wearing it?
I hope that helps. Working on your style is really just another way to sort out who you are and what you want to tell the world about yourself.
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Evening wrap, House of Balenciaga, 1949-51
Hat tip @sweetlyfez look at this OFFICE CLOAK.
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the humor of calling people ugly just makes me want to ask those people to define ugly. what exactly are the features you think are ugly? how do you determine a person is ugly? what exactly is the difference between you (attractive person) and the people you call ugly? like genuinely
say that out loud. i am conventionally attractive by society's rigid standards and that makes me superior to people who aren't
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Heath Ledger On The Set Of "Casanova"
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happy tdov to people who don't pass or have no interest in passing, who can't pass because there is no culturally recognised category for the way they want to be recognised, who flip flop and fuck around, who can't hide their transness and have to plan their everyday around being visible, who can't signal their transness and have to come out over and over because the default presumption is intolerable, who don't have the resources yet or the knowhow or the willpower to change what they want to change, whose transness is warped by a hegemonic image of ideal transness that is almost as difficult to escape as the hegemonic image of cisness, who don't have a justification prepared for the assertion that they are trans but can no longer justify the assertion that they are not, who have a million justifications that are all surplus to the fundamental requirement (that society mandated one articulation of you and you chose another), et cetera and so forth across the world and universe forever. your version is right. don't concede.
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not to be an asshole but i think a lot of disability discourse on this website cannot comprehend the idea of being physically disabled in a way which is like. not at all negotiable or flexible. like i think it's great that we're pushing people to understand that disability is nuanced and that there are disabilities which are not visible forms of physical disability but also like. sometimes you straight up cannot climb stairs. no not even on a good day not even when you "have enough spoons" it is just not physically possible. or you cannot get on and off a bus without struggling or without help. or it is physically not possible for you to bathe yourself. and it's not about "and you force yourself to push through it because of the internalized ableism" because you literally cannot physically fucking do it. like i am not trying to be mean but i feel like it frequently strikes me that people talking about disability seemingly do not understand the concept of I Literally Cannot Do This No Matter How Much I Want To Or Try Like It Is Physically Not Possible
i hope you don't mind me riffing on this topic op bc it's so true. and people forgetting about it online shows how forgotten it is in real life.
as an example: around scotland, there is pretty much no gp surgeries that have a hoist. which means if you're not ambulatory, you can't get on the bed to be examined. so you either need to wait for the doctors to have the staff to visit you at home, assuming you've managed to get a hoist installed at home, or you try to get accessible transport to a hospital which does have a hoist. which costs time and money.
and i bring this up specifically bc a disabled woman i knew was in this exact situation. she couldn't get a smear test bc doctors aren't set up for non ambulatory wheelchair users. she had cancer. they didn't find it in time and now she's dead.
and this is just one example. we all need to remember the people in the disabled community who cannot do things, no matter how much they need or want to, and how often the world is set up to be inaccessible. because not enough people do and so many disabled people are stuck at home, stuck in hospitals or care centres or dead.
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Robert Wun Fall/Wint 2024
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The evolution of (trans) man.
(Well, this one, anyway.)
- Age 9: "Tomboy"
- Age 15: Strictly enforced femininity
- Age 30: Hitting the mental limits of being closeted all his life and about to crash HARD
- Age 47: Fifteen years now since starting transition. Far more good days than bad, no regrets.
The world may be full of uncertainty and danger, but I resolve to continue to find joy in who I am. Be joyful to be kind to yourself and be joyful to spite the bastards who would tear us apart.
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@vera-king-hrfl holy fuck dude - mega ideas for HotN costume ball perhaps...the amount of funds that went into these could pay off quite a few of my bills I believe...but they are fucking gorgeous
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