This is interesting. I've only recently started making and wearing the ultra femme clothes I've always loved. A lot of it goes back to being "too athletic to be aesthetic" for ballet. I was always the tallest, heaviest, and strongest girl in my classes and often danced in the boy's group, because my size and range was a spacing problem. This plays into the negotiations and contextuality of beauty in the Widdows' quote. In most contexts I was on the privileged end of standard white lady, but in my head I was enormous and masculine. I never felt like the dainty waif that people expected to see in embroidered Peter Pan collars. IG is definitely a mixed bag, but seeing lots of different bodies wearing lots of different styles inspired me to express myself however I like. It also means I buy less clothing and I'm more satisfied with what I already have. I also feel less like I need to have an aesthetic body. Instead, I'm so happy to be wearing such a beautiful green or I'm so happy I have a big skirt so that I can fit a book in my pocket.
I’ve long felt that having tattoos “allows” me to wear vintage or cutesy feminine attire and still have a base level of cool (signed, a former tomboy)
This is interesting. I've only recently started making and wearing the ultra femme clothes I've always loved. A lot of it goes back to being "too athletic to be aesthetic" for ballet. I was always the tallest, heaviest, and strongest girl in my classes and often danced in the boy's group, because my size and range was a spacing problem. This plays into the negotiations and contextuality of beauty in the Widdows' quote. In most contexts I was on the privileged end of standard white lady, but in my head I was enormous and masculine. I never felt like the dainty waif that people expected to see in embroidered Peter Pan collars. IG is definitely a mixed bag, but seeing lots of different bodies wearing lots of different styles inspired me to express myself however I like. It also means I buy less clothing and I'm more satisfied with what I already have. I also feel less like I need to have an aesthetic body. Instead, I'm so happy to be wearing such a beautiful green or I'm so happy I have a big skirt so that I can fit a book in my pocket.