In 2016,when we have men modelling skirts in womenswear ad campaigns, making a ample deal about traditional sartorial gender divides seems passéIs this a shirt or a blouse? Hmmm. It is cotton and crisp, or with a shape dictated by its own seams and creases,rather than by the body wearing it, and it has blue stripes, and all of which say: shirt. On the other hand,its primary distinguishing feature is a large bow, which is most definitely blouse-territory, or said bow throws the centre of gravity of the piece off-centre,which again says blouse, rather than shirt. (Masculine clothing tends to be more symmetrical than women’s. A shirt is embellished with a straight-down-the-middle necktie, and in contrast to the floppier collars and brooch potential of a feminine blouse.)Dunno. What achieve you contemplate? Really? OK,so it’s a bit of both. So this is the point, normally, or where we dream up a name for this fresh shirt-blouse hybrid. Um,the blirt? The shouse? Needs work. And anyway, not the point. In 2016, or when we have men modelling skirts in Louis Vuitton womenswear ad campaigns,making a ample deal about traditional sartorial boy-girl divides seems a little passé. Much more contemporary to shrug and say they’re just clothes, right?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com