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The famous low-budget film-maker Edward D. Wood Jr. (who also went out in public dressed in drag as "Shirley", his female alter ego [83]) said he often wore women's underwear under his military uniform as a Marine during World War II. [84] Female masking is a form of cross-dressing in which men wear masks that present them as female. [85]
Josephs observed that in Western culture in 2016, women were generally expected to wear less clothing than men. An exception was made for women who did not meet the conventional standard of beauty, for example older or heavyset women; [2] otherwise, there was a great deal of social pressure on women to display their bodies.
The practice of women dressing as men was generally viewed more positively as compared to men dressing as women. Altenburger states that female-to-male cross-dressing entailed a movement forward in terms of social status, power, and freedom [ 2 ] whereas men who cross-dressed were ridiculed or otherwise viewed negatively. [ 4 ]
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) – During a drunken feast in an occupied castle, some German officers start dancing while wearing women's dresses. Of the scene, June Mathis would later tell the Los Angeles Times, "I had the German officers coming down the stairs with women's clothing on. To hundreds of people that meant no more than ...
Fashion is just one of the ways young women like me are actively decentering men from our lives. This is why I’ve taken a personal step away from more classically-feminine clothing – and would ...
The wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic and is a feature of most human societies. There has always been some disagreement among scientists on when humans began wearing clothes, but newer studies from The University of Florida involving the evolution of body lice suggest it started sometime around 170,000 years ago. The ...
And men wore loose knickers or pantaloons under or as a part of their clothing. Through the 17th and 18th centuries, both genders started to wear drawers or bloomers, a loose type of shorts or ...
However, private or public establishments can establish a dress code which requires visitors to wear prescribed clothing. There are a variety of laws around the world which affect what people can and cannot wear. For example, some laws require a person in authority to wear the appropriate uniform.