"Is it an outfit or is she just skinny" is a question a lot of people started to wonder
about in the past year or so. But a variant of this question is emerging-- that is, "Is it an outfit or
is he just a man?" I've seen a few posts about this, but honestly the discussion around it is
bare in comparison to the discussion around "Is it an outfit or is she just skinny?" So
here I am to talk about it. I want to take some time to look at some male fashion outfits that are
largely considered good fits and put them on me, to see if they still retain that title on a woman.
Now I acknowledge that I am skinny so that might lump in another bias factor, so do be aware of that.
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I think a precursor to this question of "Is it an outfit or is he just a man" is when people start
to realize that the term "basic" is primarily flung against women. I won't give a whole
historical account on the term "basic" because there are already other videos that do that but this is
just one example of when being like other girls is made fun of. When the stereotypical femininity of
the time is mocked and it is socially acceptable to do so. But unlike the term basic which anyone
uses I feel like for outfits, it's largely women who praise men for the bare minimum but also
women who judge the outfits of other women. It's often women who comment things like "fashion king!!"
on a man wearing an oversized t-shirt, baggy jeans, and combat boots. But we call each other basic
if we do the same. So why does it seem to be easier for a man to dress in a fashionable manner?
For one, our standards as to what is fashionable or not are created by what others like us
are wearing. And I think the standards for how women should present themselves
are higher than the standards for men. Women are seen as objects of desire and their role is to
be pretty, to compete for attention. It creates this feeling of needing to one up the other.
I think a really good example of this is formal wear. A man can have one black and white suit in
his closet and be set for any formal event. He can wear that suit to every formal event he goes to
and be considered as put together and fashionable looking. Itdoes not matter that there are tons of
other men who are dressed exactly the same as him. In some respect they are already all equals but a
woman cannot have one staple dress which she uses for every formal event. No no! A woman needs to have
multiple dresses that she can wear one for event A, one for event B, and only re-wear a dress at event
C if none of the attendees are the same as event A or B. Oh and god forbid it'd be the same dress as
another woman. Now that would be embarrassing. Why? Because it shows you are no longer unique. What a
woman wears contributes more to her individual worth and identity than a man. It's almost as if
there's this underlying assumption that to be a man already gives a base level of appeal but
when you are a woman you have to put more effort to prove it that is not to say, that there are no
beauty standards for men and that every man has treated equally. Of course not, it's just that when
you are a woman you have to put in more effort to prove your appeal. or your individual unique
worth. I think media and magazines only make this worse by constantly exposing women to unrealistic
images of what they should look like. This really interesting read titled fashion and the homo
spectatorial look talks about how women's fashion photography poses its women to look very appealing.
Quote, "As sexually irresistible subjects inviting its female viewers to consume the product
by over identifying with the image." The way that women are presented as desirable objects for
heterosexual men stands in tension with the female fashion industry's goal to make female consumers
identify with the women model they see. Presumably, the readers of these magazines are to desire to be
the woman not to have her. But it ends up creating this weird dynamic where women simultaneously
envy, admire, and desire the fashionable women she sees in images. But since we can't all have her,
we all compete to be like her. This competitive standard for women is paired with the rigidness
of masculinity. I think because fashion still tends to be associated with femininity it's more risky
or scary for men to step out of old-fashioned rules. Now please do not think I am saying that
all men's fashion is boring or that there are no admirable male fashion icons. Of course not, there
are lots of male fashion outfits I've seen that I personally enjoy. It's just that for men the
range of looks that are considered fashionable is wider and the degree to which they are fashionable
is higher. For instance, this look right here can still look nice on a woman. But seeing it on a man
is like an 8 out of 10. But on a woman it's like a 6.7 out of 10. Like she could have done something
more with her hair her jewelry it looks a little "basic". It is a lot more revolutionary for a man
to wear something that is more feminine, than it is for a woman to wear something considered masculine.
A man with nail polish a skirt or a crop top are placed on a fashion pedestal, though
obviously this makes sense-- masculinity has yet to break the barriers of gendered fashion the way
female fashion has and that's because first and second wave feminism looked to men as the people
women wanted to be equals with. So they decided to do things more masculine such as wearing jeans,
baggy trousers, sneakers, and blazers in hopes of rising up here masculinity though has never
felt the same need to be more feminine. Because there wasn't this inequality to prompt it. Anyways,
standards for men's fashion is just generally lower making it easier to surpass that bar. Now, I
picked a few men's fashion outfits to recreate on myself and will decide if it is an outfit or if he
is just a man. Okay, one of the staple men's outfits that I've seen is just a baggy t-shirt, baggy jeans,
sneakers and then maybe a tote bag. So that's what I'm going to put on first. Okay, is this not
what they wear sometimes? Like a t-shirt and then some baggy sweats, a tote bag and then sneakers
that like, match the color of their t-shirt? I don't know... I feel like I'm wearing my pajamas.
Is this cute? Is it? I feel like it's not really a fit on me. That's just my opinion, obviously...
but I'll replace the pants with some jeans and see if maybe that elevates it i changed into some
jeans. Does this look better? I don't know... I feel like it doesn't look that good still on me. Like
okay, yeah, maybe kind of like a cute very casual look. But for a man to wear this it's like
oh my gosh, fashion king! It's not that this look is ugly, but it's just that it doesn't hold the same
power on me. Okay, I'm trying the tied sweater around shoulder thing that I see--- *honk* Okay, I'm trying
the tied sweater over shoulder thing that I've seen a lot on Pinterest for like, male fashion.
I don't know why I feel like awkward or I feel stupid, like did I not tie it properly? Is there
a way to tie this without it looking stupid? How do they tie it-- I feel like I look dumb...
Maybe that's just me being insecure or not being used to this.
It looks fine in the pinterest photos I saw on the guys, but I think it just doesn't work on me.
I swear some girls would go crazy for this look if a guy wore it: the baggy flannel shirt,
corduroy beige pants, and like some docks... some combat boots... Oh my god, I'm looking so
fashionable right now!! Again, it's not like this outfit is like bad or something. It's just that
I think I'm so used to seeing other women dressed so extravagantly, that when I put this on I feel so
underdressed and yet when I pass by men who wear this, I think that they are well dressed, better
than other men. I'm doing the baggy hoodie with a little bit of the white t-shirt poking through at
the bottom, baggy jeans, combat boots. And I even added like a little cap to try and make it less
boring. Um, despite that I still feel underdressed and I feel as though I would not be called
a fashionable woman. Wearing this I feel like I look again casual comfy. Nothing wrong with it, but
not fashionable. A man wearing this is like "ugh, yes, these are the types of styles i like
my man to wear!!" but I just look like I came out of bed and put on the comfiest clothing I could find.
Now obviously, we still perceive fashion in a very gendered way. So sometimes the purpose of
what an outfit is supposed to serve for a man is just not the same as a woman. For example female
fashion tends to be a lot more extravagant looking because it's like women are decorations. They're
supposed to look pretty, they're supposed to look more presentable. Hence the more
extra outfits. But for men, you know, they don't want to look decorative. They don't want to look too
much because then it's like, oh, that's feminine. So to look put together but in a more casual
simple way is what is considered well dressed or fashionable for men. Of course, there are all these
other factors that play into it, such as whether that man you're looking at is attractive , you know.
Do you like his outfit or do you just like his face or his body? I think I'm just gonna stop
rambling about my thoughts now here. Sorry for all the background noise, I recently moved to downtown
Toronto so it's always loud here. Again if you want some awesome glasses or sunglasses you can check
out glassesusa.com, the link to their website is down in my description box, you can go check it out
there. Again, these are just my opinions. Perhaps I don't find these outfits fashionable just because
that's not my taste, I could be totally wrong. I respect your opinions so leave a comment if you
want. Thank you so much for watching, let's keep talking and I hope to hear from you soon! Bye!!
Captions by Julia M.